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natural belt of trees and shrubs and grass that protects against the wind
and erosion. Paradise of Eros. A wind tunnel that blooms, the magnificent
ring of trees around a farm house. Arbor for birds. Shade. Haven for animals
and birds.Women's Spot. A Vallikudil.Zone of song and friendship. An
e-zine. Comfort. A Quiet Good Place for the
World's Women and Men.
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| Amadeo Modigliani (1884-1920) painted the gloriously unforgettable images of women who are shown reclined or sitting in a brooding, sorrowful posture; most of these lean images are inspired by the model Jeanne Hébuterne. Modigliani had some financial success in later years, although his life story ended as in tragedy after a pregnant Jeanne jumped to her death, two days after the artist died of meningitis. Now revered as one of the greatest painters of 20th century, his tragic association with Jeanne seems to add to our insight into his art, most of them tender expressions of a woman alone... more images | 
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Grammy winner Norah Jones (birthday March 30, 1979) is the daughter
of the sitar great, Ravi Shanker, but she did not have much contact with
the father as she was growing up with her mother in Dallas, Texas, nourished
by church music and Billie Holiday and other Jazz and blues greats--her
other sister Anoushka Shankar appears regularly in concert with her father.
Norah came to New York City and sudddenly found her direction and the hit,
Come
Away With Me.
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Women's History:
Council of Trent on regulating marriage and religious life Meet the Wife of Bath: nuggets from Chaucer's tale about an intelligent feisty medieval woman who understood gender politics Autobiographies from around the World Lifetime Reading
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John Webster's Duchess of Malfi: two brothers, a Duke and a Cardinal, both suffering from unarticulated incestous desire for their windowed sister, the Duchess of Malfi, whom they subject to unspeakable physical and psychological torture so that they can avoid facing up to the truth: Excerpts from Juliana of Norwich's mystical
work and "Revelations
of Divine Love."
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The Pulitzer Prize winner Jhumpa Lahiri is back  |
The young author of the debut
collection Interpreter of Maladies
has returned with a stunning first novel, The Namesake, set in India and United States, a quintessential story about living simultaneously in many cultures. Lahiri has offered us a series of gentle, at times painful pin-prick revelations about the new immigrat experience--that of the educated Indian middle-class and of the ex-artistocracts who still hang on to some ancient sense of entitlements. The most dramatic "battle" in this novel is in fact waged in honor of names. Just having a name of one's own is no easy victory! We have an Indian Jane Austen now at work in the English language. for more books & ideas |
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(1830-1886) |
TO make a prairie it takes a clover and one
bee, --
From fairest creatures we desire increase,
Two sets of Renaissance sonnets: Spenser's amoretti and Mary Wroth's poems that offer a female gaze into the heart of love. Love poems by Elizabeth Barret Browning |
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