Tag: women
group name: womenwise
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December 09, 2008 01:56 PM EST --
The fact that women are making significant progress in some parts of Afghanistan is good news that confirms our own experience in the country.
The province of Bamian will benefit from women taking . . .
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December 17, 2008 03:54 PM EST --
I believe that leaders are born, and I think that I am one of them. My life has been a constant fight, characterized by a refusal to obey my society’s dictates for women.
Had I not been strong in . . .
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November 20, 2008 01:47 PM EST --
Amidst the widespread violence and large-scale human suffering, Women for Women International is preparing to respond to the needs of thousands of women who are threatened by the fighting . . .
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December 02, 2008 12:55 PM EST --
Over the past decade, a complex web of local, regional, and national conflict has devastated much of the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Ethnic strife and civil war broke out in 1996, . . .
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November 21, 2008 12:20 PM EST --
"I am afraid of the fighting reaching my area. Like all women, I am afraid of being raped," says Jeanette Yamwerenye, one of the women, who has made it to the Women for Women training in Goma . . .
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November 25, 2008 11:19 AM EST --
Experts on the Democratic Republic of the Congo are calling for assistance and strong international leadership to prevent further deterioration of the devastating humanitarian situation in the country's . . .
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September 09, 2006 07:23 PM EDT --
The wisteria is a deep purple
jolting a memory
of a deep purple deception
the lover who did not love
the deep purple flowers
given to exact . . .
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March 30, 2006 08:10 AM EST --
A Middle Aged Women Looks At the Headlines
Sometimes I just want to scream.
Three days before I turn fifty
I wake to find a headline about
actresses entitled "50-ish and Hot".
Please . . .
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April 21, 2006 07:55 PM EDT --
I began Officer Training School in January, 1972 at the Medina Annex outside Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas. Five of us departed from Jackson, Mississippi on a group ticket with the leader . . .
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November 30, 2009 07:23 PM EST --
There is a very soft and almost intangible separation between being in love with women and loving their pure female manifestations. I have always viewed the female from an almost cherished and artistitic . . .
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April 07, 2008 10:58 PM EDT --
Nellie opened her eyes and saw the sky and clouds, then the grass, sky, clouds, grass, sky, clouds, grass, front porch. As she got up she felt her head move in a slow rolling motion. Then her upper body . . .
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April 13, 2008 06:05 PM EDT --
Came across the following earlier and just giggled, shook my head, and then exhaled....
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The following is from an actual 1950's Home Economics textbook intended for High . . .
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December 21, 2007 07:36 PM EST --
If I could go back in time to the first time I met you, If I knew what I know now,
I would have somehow gotten up the courage and strength to talk to you, in person.
My day was shot, it was different . . .
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January 29, 2009 05:08 PM EST --
Emily Warren Roebling is a woman I'd be willing to bet you've never heard of.
But you've heard of the Brooklyn Bridge, right?
Well, without Emily Warren Roebling, the Brooklyn Bridge . . .
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December 19, 2008 01:40 PM EST --
Struggling to find a last-minute gift for the person who has everything? Tired of giving gifts that have little meaning or are unlikely to be remembered? Why not give a gift that makes a . . .
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April 28, 2006 05:29 PM EDT --
For Halloween parties, there are people like myself who come up with simple costumes (I've often been a gypsy since I can use my own clothes, jewelry and a lot of makeup.) Then there are creative . . .
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June 08, 2006 04:31 PM EDT --
I am sitting here wondering why some women think they can change the men in their lives?
One scenario goes like this: A smart, savvy woman who has completed her education and advanced in her career . . .
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March 19, 2007 01:11 PM EDT --
Hi all,
I hope you are having a great day. I just wanted to say that I feel into my no wheat no dairy diet while going to yoga. We had a special detox class and we talked with a naturalpath . . .
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March 02, 2006 11:34 AM EST --
Smart
Brilliant
Radiant
Dazzling
Healthy
Glowing
Content
Happy
Pleased
Wonderful
Gorgeous
Stunning
Blissful
Peaceful
Breathtaking
Amazing
Magnificent
Awesome
Outstanding
Stupendous
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June 19, 2006 10:21 PM EDT --
On a way-too-hot summer day much like today was, when I was eight years old, I decided to take a walk in my backyard. Without my shirt on.
My mother, of course, was horrified and pulled me in the house . . .
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Women Wise
Location: Weymouth, MA
Created: Mar 02, 2006
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