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Angelina Jolie - Pakistan Not for her beauty, her acting, her husband. Ok. Maybe her husband. But for the fact that she genuinely seems to get that this is more important.
Not because she was beautiful or stylish. But because she chose to do THIS with her retirement years. Because she found something so much more worthy of her time and her heart.
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These, coincidentally (or not?) are some of my favourite Hollywood people. 10 Longest Lasting Hollywood Marriages - Pretty interesting. I love that they have made it work!
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Maya Angelou is shown gratitude by President Barack Obama after receiving the Medal of Freedom.
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uncommon courage - Dorothy Counts, the first African American girl to attend an all-white school, being taunted by her peers. This girl's strength ... I can't begin to imagine.
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Dr Fiona Wood, mother of six, plastic surgeon, Head of Royal Perth Hospital's Burns Unit and co-founder of Clinical Cell Culture, a private company leading the world in research and breakthroughs in the treatment of burns. She is also a Clinical Professor with the School of Pediatrics and Child Health at the University of Western Australia and Director of the McComb Research Foundation. She was named Australian of The Year in 1995 and has become world renowned for her patented invention of ...
Pretty women wonder where my secret lies. I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size But when I start to tell them, They think I'm telling lies. I say, It's in the reach of my arms The span of my hips, The stride of my step, The curl of my lips. I'm a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That's me. I walk into a room Just as cool as you please, And to a man, The fellows stand or Fall down on their knees. Then they swarm around me, A hive of honey bees. I say, It's the fire in my e...
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Ann Sullivan (at right; with her student, Helen Keller)
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Ms. Anuradha Koirala is the Founder and Executive Director of Maiti Nepal. Born in Nepal and former English teacher, Ms. Koirala started Maiti Nepal in a small house in Kathmandu with her own savings. Today she is a widely recognized activist and lecturer who has dedicated her life to combating the sexual exploitation of women and children.
After the Khmer Rouge killed both her parents, Theary Seng and her surviving family trekked across the border for Thailand (November 1979) and emigrated to the U.S. one year later. She wrote the book Daughter of the Killing Fields, (London 2005). Fierce, highly intelligent, courageous, and beautiful, Theary Seng has dedicated her life to finding and forwarding peace and justice for her people. She is one of my sheros. Her website: ThearySeng.com...
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Dorothy Counts, the first African American girl to attend an all-white school, being taunted by her peers. This girl's strength ... I can't begin to imagine.
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Wangari Maathai, the first African woman to win the Nobel peace prize, died on Sunday night of cancer. She was 71. Maathai was a pioneer from an early age and in many spheres. After winning a scholarship to study in the US, she returned to a newly independent Kenya, becoming the first woman in east and central Africa to obtain a PhD. Maathai was also the first woman professor the University of Nairobi, where she taught veterinary medicine.
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What I do as a filmmaker and writer is listen attentively to what these brave women say. I listen, record their testimonies, and then broadcast their experiences to as many people as possible, so that we learn from their incredible resolve to live. We learn and, hopefully, we never forget.” Yaba Badoe is a filmmaker and author of True Murder
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“Rape as an orchestrated weapon of war is a cold hearted and a most despicable crime by men who were (presumably born of women). It is designed to stigmatise and humiliate women in the worst possible way. We owe it our sisters to use our visibility and our voices to show our support of them, our solidarity with them, our empathy (and sympathy) of their trauma, and just as importantly denounce the crime and call the world’s attention to it so that it is stemmed.” Chika Uni...
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NOBEL PEACE PRIZE 2011 SHARED BY THREE WOMEN. 2011 Nobel Peace Prize (shared) L to R - Tawakkul Karman, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee. "For their non-violent struggle for the safety of women & for women’s rights to full participation in peace-building work". Thank you and congratulations to these inspiring women.
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Fed up with abusive husbands and corrupt officials, India’s poorest women are banding together, taking up arms, and fighting back. Even more shocking than the pink saris they wear: Their quest for justice is actually working. In one of the most backward regions of India, the badlands of Central India, village women dressed in pink saris are getting together to fight corruption and injustice and to raise their voices against the system.” Pink Gang" fights for the rights of women an...
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"You know, my hair is very upsetting to people, but it's upsetting on purpose. It is important to look old so that the young will not be afraid of dying. People don't like old women. We don't honor age in our society, and we certainly don't honor it in Hollywood." - Tyne Daly
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Paul Newman's letter to his wife on their wedding day: “ Happiness in marriage is not something that just happens. A good marriage must be created. In the Art of Marriage, the little things are the big things. It is never being too old to hold hands. It is remembering to say ‘I love you’ at least once a day. It is never going to sleep angry. It is at no time taking the other for granted; the courtship should not end with the honeymoon; it should continue through all the years. It is having a mutual sense of values and common objectives. It is standing together facing the world. It is forming a circle of love that gathers in the whole family. It is doing things for each other, not in the attitude of duty or sacrifice, but in the spirit of joy. It is speaking words of appreciation and demonstrating gratitude in thoughtful ways. It is not expecting the husband to wear a halo or the wife to have the wings of an angel. It is not looking for perfection in each other. It is cultivating flexibility, patience, understanding and a sense of humor. It is having the capacity to forgive and forget. It is giving each other an atmosphere in which each can grow. It is finding rooms for things of the spirit. It is a common search for the good and the beautiful. It is establishing a relationship in which the independence is equal, dependence is mutual and obligation is reciprocal. It is not only marrying the right partner, it is being the right partner."
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