Wonderful Women Of The World
Posted by Michelle Moquin on February 9th, 2013
Good morning!
I love this woman’s passion, and her charming way of story telling. This is a TED talk from 2007. As much as some things have changed for women, much of what she talks about is unfortunately still present to this day.
Isabel Allende: Tales of passion
As a novelist and memoirist, Isabel Allende writes of passionate lives, including her own. Born into a Chilean family with political ties, she went into exile in the United States in the 1970s — an event that, she believes, created her as a writer. Her voice blends sweeping narrative with touches of magical realism; her stories are romantic, in the very best sense of the word. Her novels include The House of the Spirits, Eva Luna and The Stories of Eva Luna, and her latest, Ines of My Soul and La Suma de los Dias (The Sum of Our Days). And don’t forget her adventure trilogy for young readers – City of the Beasts, Kingdom of the Golden Dragon and Forest of the Pygmies.
As a memoirist, she has written about her vision of her lost Chile, in My Invented Country, and movingly tells the story of her life to her own daughter, in Paula. Her book Aphrodite: A Memoir of the Senses memorably linked two sections of the bookstore that don’t see much crossover: Erotica and Cookbooks. Just as vital is her community work: The Isabel Allende Foundation works with nonprofits in the SF Bay Area and Chile to empower and protect women and girls — understanding that empowering women is the only true route to social and economic justice.
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Readers: Everyday I read and hear more and more horrific things that happen to women. When any woman dedicates her life and time to helping to empower and protect women and girls, she is considered a Wonderful Woman Of The World to me. Do you know anyone who should hold this title?
Girls: What are you doing to become a Wonderful Woman Of The World? Blog me.
Guys: Don’t want to leave you out. What are you doing to be a Wonderful Man…?
We all need to do something.
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February 9th, 2013 at 1:10 pm
Hi Michelle:
I know something that both the girls and the guys can do to benefit the Wonderful Women of the U.S.A. . Sign this petition, it petitions the Obama Administrtion to push a bill that would make birth control available to American women whether or not they can afford it.
Wonderful Women of the World, sorry but this one does not apply to you. But you are still Wonderful where ever you are from.
I put a sloppy version of this comment in yesterday, but with all the focus on the goon squad called LAPD, I don’t think many clicked on my link. So I am putting it in again.
Seriously, this petition is important for women who are Pro-Choice, so please sign it.
https://secure.prochoiceamerica.org/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=5453&autologin=true&JServSessionIdr004=0zub3cigx2.app227a
February 10th, 2013 at 8:19 am
Great idea Al. It is nice to see you back. I couldn’t get in yesterday. The snow had my power off.
February 10th, 2013 at 8:25 am
My sister, told me to write in and encourage the men to write their representatives to support the VAWA.
I’m only 19 but I can’t think of a reason for a person male or female not to want to prevent violence against women.
It’s a no brainer. Come on guys write, call, and email those idiots in Washington and get them to vote.
February 10th, 2013 at 8:55 am
I work with 8 to 10 year old boys to teach them to work with girls of the same age in sports like tennis. We try to instill in the boys a respect for the equal rights of females while they are playing.
February 10th, 2013 at 9:00 am
I am a pastor that points out that the bible is a bit archaic when it comes to the equality of women in the household. At first I was surprised to discover that most of the resistance to my sermons was coming for my female members.
Ater a few personal meetings,we arrived and a consensus that the bible could be wrong when it came to saying that men were the de facto heads of the household.
February 10th, 2013 at 9:38 am
Some interesting facts to those women who still support the men when they preach abstinence.
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The teen pregnancy rate in New York City dropped by 27 percent over the last decade, a statistic that city officials credit to teens’ expanded access to contraception.
The city’s health commissioner, Tom Farley, told the New York Daily News that the data shows two concurrent trends: more adolescents are choosing to use birth control, and more of them are also delaying sexual intercourse. That’s partly because New York is one of the 21 states that allows all minors to have access to contraceptive services — and two years ago, the public school system began a pilot program to provide Plan B to public school students in districts with high rates of unintended pregnancy:
The city has worked to make it easier for kids to get birth control — giving out condoms at schools and making birth control and the morning-after pill available in some school clinics, a sometimes controversial move.
Farley said the numbers show that strategy is working.
“It shows that when you make condoms and contraception available to teens, they don’t increase their likelihood of being sexually active. But they get the message that sex is risky,” he said. [...]
Teen pregnancy in the city is still higher than it is nationwide, but it has fallen at a sharper rate, officials said.
Despite the promising trends, health officials in the city note that there are still significant racial and geographic disparities among the teens who are getting pregnant.
The Bronx has the highest rate of teen pregnancy in the country, and African-American teens in New York City have a much higher pregnancy rate than their white counterparts — 110.7 births for every 1,000 back girls, compared with 16 births for every 1,000 white girls.
That trend is evident on a national level, too. Black and Latina women have the highest rates of unplanned pregnancy and, subsequently, the highest rates of abortion.
But the city’s school system is on the right track, since part of addressing the connection between poverty and teen pregnancy is increasing access to affordable birth control.
Removing the cost barriers to contraception encourages low-income women to choose longer-lasting, more effective forms of birth control that lower their risk for unintended pregnancy.
And increasing adolescents’ access to Plan B is particularly important since the Department of Health and Human Services requires women under the age of 17 to obtain a prescription for Plan B, an unnecessary extra step that is often a barrier preventing adolescents from accessing the contraception they need in a timely manner.
Despite right-wing fervor over Plan B, it is an extremely safe medication that does not actually induce abortion. The majority of parents whose children are enrolled in New York City’s public schools support the city’s initiative to expand access to this type of contraception.
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Michelle, I’m working to help get Plan B going in my state.
February 10th, 2013 at 9:40 am
Howie, I’m still trying to digest your previous post and then you send me that last one.
WOW!!!!!
February 10th, 2013 at 9:41 am
Sorry, I almost forgot Michelle, I work with the battered women’s shelter here in southern LA.
February 10th, 2013 at 9:43 am
When will they learn that pre-emptive: emergency contraception is not abortion. Since emergency contraception prevents pregnancy, there’s no pregnancy to abort.
I service women in a town that would deny them my service do to their religious beliefs.
February 10th, 2013 at 9:45 am
Lois, I have to deal with the same bullshit on a daily basis because of the
self-righteous, religious moralists of society who think they can prevent teenage pregnancy through force and at the same time slash assistance for those teens in the care and feeding of their offspring, as well as the continued education of the teen, perpetuate the problems.
For crissake! Give them contraceptive information and avail them of contraceptive supplies — prevent those unwanted babies condemned to a life of deprivation!
February 10th, 2013 at 9:55 am
Hi Everyone:
I have another petition both men and women who are opposed to violence against WOMEN can sign…..
“Right now, the Senate is poised to pass the Violence Against Women Act with bipartisan support. Only 224 House Republicans stand in the way of protecting victims of domestic violence. We need you to act now to ensure that the Senate bill is passed quickly by the Republican-controlled House.
Momentum is on our side. Last year, ten Republicans in the House broke rank with their party and joined Democrats in support of reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act. Eight of those Republicans remain in Congress. It’s time to increase the public pressure on the other 224 Republicans in the House to pass the Senate version of this bill which will be approved as early as tomorrow.
Women’s lives are at risk, and there is no more time for partisan delay.
Tell Eric Cantor and extremist House Republicans: Stop blocking the Violence Against Women Act.”
http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/cantor_vawa/?r_by=54521-2171202-PNYKmYx&rc=confemail
Al
February 10th, 2013 at 9:55 am
I know a little something about Plan B. It was first thought it worked by preventing a fertilized egg from attaching itself to the uterus. Now we know that it works by preventing an egg from being released from the ovary.
Plan B prevents fertilization by not allowing the egg to be there to meet the sperm. The best evidence science has now is that although it was originally thought to prevent a fertilized egg implanting, it does not do that at all.
So, if you are truly pro-life, you’ll be grateful for programs like this and be more than willing to fund them. Plan B is much safer, cheaper, and easier to get than an abortion.
February 10th, 2013 at 10:24 am
Hi All:
Here are just a few more details about the VAWA bill that is on the table right now. The republican party supported the VAWA until 2010, about the same time that they became completely Anti-American and Pro-”I Wanna Be a Zillionaire and fuck everyone else.”
“The Senate version of the bill is expected to handily pass a floor vote this week with the help of new women Senators from both parties who were elected amidst a national backlash against Tea Party extremists like rape-apologists Todd Akin and Richard Mourdock.
VAWA is an incredibly popular and successful program that has reduced domestic violence rates by 58% since it was first passed in 1994. And it was approved in bipartisan votes every year since it was originally passed — until the radical takeover of the House by extremist, anti-women Republicans in 2010.
We know that we can’t count on Republican men to vote in the interest of their constituents without enormous public pressure from us. House Republican men have voted for shameful bills to redefine rape, defund Planned Parenthood, and to let women die. Despite their appalling record on women’s issues, there is hope that men in the Republican caucus in the House will join with their Republican women colleagues in the senate and show concern for domestic violence survivors.
Tell Republican men in the House: Stop blocking the Violence Against Women Act.” Click below to automatically sign the petition:
http://act.credoaction.com/r/?r=6993722&p=cantor_vawa&id=54521-2171202-PNYKmYx&t=4
Al
February 10th, 2013 at 8:36 pm
It is good to be back among this time line. Quu has asked me to tell the most interesting thing I learned while I was lost among the time intervals of this planet.
Of course, I won’t reveal what I learned from your future. But I have discovered many interesting things about your past. Since Michelle is an American can and this is her blog, I will address a few things I learned from America’s history.
But first let me say hello to you Michelle. I hope you missed me in my absence.
One of the most interesting things I learned when I accidentally landed on Juan Ponce de Leon’s ship as it was heading for the coast of Florida is that it contained african slaves. On April 2, 1510 when the ship landed african slaves set foot on the Americas before the english of europe did.
I was curious why history did not record this. I think your history records November 1528 as the time the first African slave came to the USA. I decided to follow time to see how long africans existed in the USA before the english arrived.
I ended up in 1516 on a caravel in which the slaves were killing the ships’s crew. AH managed to get me out before I met the fate of the governor of Cuba’s crew. Oh, the pearls of traveling in a human body.
There were many landings in the New World by African Slaves, but in 1539 Hernando de Soto went on an expedition with about 1200 men and about 100 Africans through Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, and South Carolina. Many of the Africans escaped their captors.
I will go into more detail later. I first need to go back and see to it that you can verify the facts that I will be giving you. To do this I must prevent the total destruction of data white American has destroyed to prevent the american blacks from discovering that many american slaves can trace their american ancestry further back than the founding fathers of America.
Adam
February 10th, 2013 at 9:52 pm
Welcome back Adam. I am looking forward to hearing about what happened to make you disappear in the first place.
February 11th, 2013 at 9:50 am
Dazed42, we are attempting to readjust the time table. The Host is mere phantasy at present.
February 11th, 2013 at 11:43 am
The Obama administration in an attempt to deal with the opposition of the catholic church to health care for american women has threatened the Pope with exposure for his pedophile years when he was a priest and bishop.
There are extensive records of his abusing young boys and his condoning priests under his positions as bishop and cardinal who molested children, and raped nuns and women who came to them seeking help.
Obama told him that unless he resigned they would expose him to the world.
February 14th, 2013 at 11:01 pm
We are excitingly waiting for your arrival.