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EMPTY UTERUS
My favorites: # 1 (Because it made me so angry) Emily asks her father permission to write during the night for quiet’s sake. He agrees. Then she asks him to contact a friend who is the editor of a newspaper that publishes poetry. He does so, and soon after, Emily submits some of her poems for consideration. When Samuel Bowles, the editor of AUTHORS – EMPTY UTERUS Marguerite Yourcenar ( 8 June 1903 – 17 December 1987) was a French novelist and essayist born in Brussels, Belgium, who became a US citizen in 1947. Winner of the Prix Femina and the Erasmus Prize, she was the first woman elected to the Académie française, in 1980, and the seventeenth person to occupy Seat 3. Source: Wikipedia. ABOUT – EMPTY UTERUS About. Empty uterus is a blog and a book in the making about childless women around the world. A library where I archive parts of my research about the process of reflecting and deciding on not becoming a mother. Here you’ll find reviews of movies, books, podcasts, plays, magazine and newspaper articles I’ve come across since I started theTHE BABY MATRIX
The Baby Matrix looks at long-held beliefs about parenthood and reproduction, and unravels why we believe what we believe. It lays out: -the historical origins of beliefs about parenthood and reproduction. -why many of these beliefs no longer work for society or were never true in the first place. – why we continue to believethem anyway.
CONSCIOUSMOTHERHOOD
People are still expected to provide reasons not to have children, but no reasons are required to have them. It’s assumed that if individuals do not have children it is because they are infertile, too selfish or have just not yet gotten around to it. BACHA POSH – EMPTY UTERUS The daughter will do, as long as she dresses in male clothing, has her hair cut short and uses a male name. By doing so, she is allowed outside the house by herself, and she can start working to help the family make money. These girls are known as “Bacha Posh“, which means “dressed up as a boy“. It’s a documentary directed byKIM CATTRALL
Fantastic interview with Kim Cattrall by Jane Garvey at BBC Woman’s Hour special program Kim Cattrall takeover. The whole thing is worth-listening to, but I have transcribed the part about no CHILDFREE – EMPTY UTERUS While A Quiet Passion may not be the best biographical film out there, it has its moments.. My favorites: # 1 (Because it made me so angry) Emily asks her father permission to write during the night for quiet’s sake. He agrees. Then she asks him to contact a friend who is the editor of a newspaper that publishes poetry. BACHA POSH – EMPTY UTERUS The daughter will do, as long as she dresses in male clothing, has her hair cut short and uses a male name. By doing so, she is allowed outside the house by herself, and she can start working to help the family make money. These girls are known as “Bacha Posh“, which means “dressed up as a boy“. It’s a documentary directed by THE CONFLICT: HOW MODERN MOTHERHOOD UNDERMINES THE STATUS Author: The Conflict: How Modern Motherhood Undermines the Status of Women. Elisabeth Badinter has for decades been in the vanguard of the European fight for women’s equality. Now, in an explosive new book, she points her finger at a most unlikely force undermining the status of women: liberal motherhood, in thrall to all that is “natural.”.EMPTY UTERUS
My favorites: # 1 (Because it made me so angry) Emily asks her father permission to write during the night for quiet’s sake. He agrees. Then she asks him to contact a friend who is the editor of a newspaper that publishes poetry. He does so, and soon after, Emily submits some of her poems for consideration. When Samuel Bowles, the editor of AUTHORS – EMPTY UTERUS Marguerite Yourcenar ( 8 June 1903 – 17 December 1987) was a French novelist and essayist born in Brussels, Belgium, who became a US citizen in 1947. Winner of the Prix Femina and the Erasmus Prize, she was the first woman elected to the Académie française, in 1980, and the seventeenth person to occupy Seat 3. Source: Wikipedia. ABOUT – EMPTY UTERUS About. Empty uterus is a blog and a book in the making about childless women around the world. A library where I archive parts of my research about the process of reflecting and deciding on not becoming a mother. Here you’ll find reviews of movies, books, podcasts, plays, magazine and newspaper articles I’ve come across since I started theTHE BABY MATRIX
The Baby Matrix looks at long-held beliefs about parenthood and reproduction, and unravels why we believe what we believe. It lays out: -the historical origins of beliefs about parenthood and reproduction. -why many of these beliefs no longer work for society or were never true in the first place. – why we continue to believethem anyway.
CONSCIOUSMOTHERHOOD
People are still expected to provide reasons not to have children, but no reasons are required to have them. It’s assumed that if individuals do not have children it is because they are infertile, too selfish or have just not yet gotten around to it. BACHA POSH – EMPTY UTERUS The daughter will do, as long as she dresses in male clothing, has her hair cut short and uses a male name. By doing so, she is allowed outside the house by herself, and she can start working to help the family make money. These girls are known as “Bacha Posh“, which means “dressed up as a boy“. It’s a documentary directed byKIM CATTRALL
Fantastic interview with Kim Cattrall by Jane Garvey at BBC Woman’s Hour special program Kim Cattrall takeover. The whole thing is worth-listening to, but I have transcribed the part about no CHILDFREE – EMPTY UTERUS While A Quiet Passion may not be the best biographical film out there, it has its moments.. My favorites: # 1 (Because it made me so angry) Emily asks her father permission to write during the night for quiet’s sake. He agrees. Then she asks him to contact a friend who is the editor of a newspaper that publishes poetry. BACHA POSH – EMPTY UTERUS The daughter will do, as long as she dresses in male clothing, has her hair cut short and uses a male name. By doing so, she is allowed outside the house by herself, and she can start working to help the family make money. These girls are known as “Bacha Posh“, which means “dressed up as a boy“. It’s a documentary directed by THE CONFLICT: HOW MODERN MOTHERHOOD UNDERMINES THE STATUS Author: The Conflict: How Modern Motherhood Undermines the Status of Women. Elisabeth Badinter has for decades been in the vanguard of the European fight for women’s equality. Now, in an explosive new book, she points her finger at a most unlikely force undermining the status of women: liberal motherhood, in thrall to all that is “natural.”. THE UNIT – EMPTY UTERUS Childless women aged 50 (and men aged 60) must leave their homes and enter “the unit,” where they will live out their days participating in government experiments and donating their organs to younger, more “productive” members of society. When Dorrit arrives at the unit, she is ready to accept her fate, but when sheunexpectedly finds
MOVIES – EMPTY UTERUS Hello, I must be going is a lovely movie with a simple, relatable, insightful and well-written script — with some beautiful drops of humor thrown here and there — beautifully delivered by terrific actors who look, sound and behave like regular people in everyday situations.. My favorite line, which was not said by the childless woman in the movie, but by a young man, is: CHILDFREE – EMPTY UTERUS A friend of mine sent me the link to this interview with the incredibly beautiful and talented actress Dana Delany. You can read more about her life and her work here, but the reason I was sent this link is that Isabel knew I’d be happy to know about one more childless woman who seems to be having a great life! Dana is 60 years old (I am still in shock!) and said her secret for looking youngSEPTEMBER 2019
While A Quiet Passion may not be the best biographical film out there, it has its moments.. My favorites: # 1 (Because it made me so angry) Emily asks her father permission to write during the night for quiet’s sake. He agrees. Then she asks him to contact a friend who is the editor of a newspaper that publishes poetry.BILLIE JEAN
Billie Jean’s contribution to women rights is massive, has been continuous, and happened both inside and outside the tennis court. This movie is an excellent way to start, but if you wish to learn more about her, here are the titles of two books she wrote: Pressure is a Privilege: Lessons I’ve Learned from Life and the Battle of theSexes.
CONSCIOUSMOTHERHOOD
People are still expected to provide reasons not to have children, but no reasons are required to have them. It’s assumed that if individuals do not have children it is because they are infertile, too selfish or have just not yet gotten around to it.HELEN MIRREN
Childlessness comes in all shapes and sizes, not just voluntary and involuntary. No woman should have to explain her childlessness. It is, quite simply, nobody else’s damn business. Helen Mirren (E ANAÏS NIN – EMPTY UTERUS I was listening to Essential Anaïs Nin uninterruptedly while making a cup of coffee and tidying up when it hit me. The freedom now available to me, or should I say finally noticed by me? The mobility, the lack of attachment to a room, sofa, bed, or chair.REBECCA SOLNIT
Rebecca Solnit (Photo by Jim Harrington) After I finished listening to A field guide to getting lost, by Rebecca Solnit, I was curious to know what she sounded like when not reading her books. A couple of online searches later and I ended up downloading one episode of the podcast called “ On being ” presented by Krista Tippett, where she had Rebecca as a guest. MOOMINS – EMPTY UTERUS I’ve lived in Sweden on and off for about six years, and this experience allowed me to hear about women whose lives I’d probably know nothing about had I stayed in my home country on the other side of the Atlantic ocean.EMPTY UTERUS
While A Quiet Passion may not be the best biographical film out there, it has its moments.. My favorites: # 1 (Because it made me so angry) Emily asks her father permission to write during the night for quiet’s sake. He agrees. Then she asks him to contact a friend who is the editor of a newspaper that publishes poetry. AUTHORS – EMPTY UTERUS Kathleen Mansfield Murry (14 October 1888 – 9 January 1923) was a prominent New Zealand modernist short story writer who was born and brought up in colonial New Zealand and wrote under the pen name of Katherine Mansfield.At 19, Mansfield left New Zealand and settled in the United Kingdom, where she became a friend of modernist writers such as D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf. ABOUT – EMPTY UTERUS The project Empty uterus is a blog and a book in the making about childless women around the world. The blog A library where I archive parts of my research about the process of reflecting and deciding on not becoming a mother. PLAYS – EMPTY UTERUS Theater plays about childlessness The Children by Lucy Kirkwood Play Review Yerma by Federico García Lorca Play Review The Quiet House by Gareth Farr Play Review Avalanche: A love story by Julia LeCHARLOTTE BRONTË
I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will. Charlotte Brontë – Jane Eyre (English novelistand poet)
CHILDLESSNESS
A blog and a book in the making about childless women around theworld.
CONSCIOUSMOTHERHOOD
People are still expected to provide reasons not to have children, but no reasons are required to have them. It’s assumed that if individuals do not have children it is because they are infertile, too selfish or have just not yet gotten around to it. CHILDLESS – EMPTY UTERUS While A Quiet Passion may not be the best biographical film out there, it has its moments.. My favorites: # 1 (Because it made me so angry) Emily asks her father permission to write during the night for quiet’s sake. He agrees. Then she asks him to contact a friend who is the editor of a newspaper that publishes poetry. BACHA POSH – EMPTY UTERUS Today I watched the documentary “ She is my son: Afghanistan Bacha Posh, when girls become boys ” and learned about the consequences of a deep-rooted belief, in Afghanistan patriarchal society, that “ Every woman must have a husband beside her. If not a husband, a son will do.”. And what happens when a couple has only daughters and no sons? The daughter will do, as long as she dresses THE CONFLICT: HOW MODERN MOTHERHOOD UNDERMINES THE STATUS Elisabeth Badinter has for decades been in the vanguard of the European fight for women’s equality. Now, in an explosive new book, she points her finger at a most unlikely force undermining the status of women: liberal motherhood, in thrall to all that is “natural.”EMPTY UTERUS
While A Quiet Passion may not be the best biographical film out there, it has its moments.. My favorites: # 1 (Because it made me so angry) Emily asks her father permission to write during the night for quiet’s sake. He agrees. Then she asks him to contact a friend who is the editor of a newspaper that publishes poetry. AUTHORS – EMPTY UTERUS Kathleen Mansfield Murry (14 October 1888 – 9 January 1923) was a prominent New Zealand modernist short story writer who was born and brought up in colonial New Zealand and wrote under the pen name of Katherine Mansfield.At 19, Mansfield left New Zealand and settled in the United Kingdom, where she became a friend of modernist writers such as D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf. ABOUT – EMPTY UTERUS The project Empty uterus is a blog and a book in the making about childless women around the world. The blog A library where I archive parts of my research about the process of reflecting and deciding on not becoming a mother. PLAYS – EMPTY UTERUS Theater plays about childlessness The Children by Lucy Kirkwood Play Review Yerma by Federico García Lorca Play Review The Quiet House by Gareth Farr Play Review Avalanche: A love story by Julia LeCHARLOTTE BRONTË
I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will. Charlotte Brontë – Jane Eyre (English novelistand poet)
CHILDLESSNESS
A blog and a book in the making about childless women around theworld.
CONSCIOUSMOTHERHOOD
People are still expected to provide reasons not to have children, but no reasons are required to have them. It’s assumed that if individuals do not have children it is because they are infertile, too selfish or have just not yet gotten around to it. CHILDLESS – EMPTY UTERUS While A Quiet Passion may not be the best biographical film out there, it has its moments.. My favorites: # 1 (Because it made me so angry) Emily asks her father permission to write during the night for quiet’s sake. He agrees. Then she asks him to contact a friend who is the editor of a newspaper that publishes poetry. BACHA POSH – EMPTY UTERUS Today I watched the documentary “ She is my son: Afghanistan Bacha Posh, when girls become boys ” and learned about the consequences of a deep-rooted belief, in Afghanistan patriarchal society, that “ Every woman must have a husband beside her. If not a husband, a son will do.”. And what happens when a couple has only daughters and no sons? The daughter will do, as long as she dresses THE CONFLICT: HOW MODERN MOTHERHOOD UNDERMINES THE STATUS Elisabeth Badinter has for decades been in the vanguard of the European fight for women’s equality. Now, in an explosive new book, she points her finger at a most unlikely force undermining the status of women: liberal motherhood, in thrall to all that is “natural.” PLAYS – EMPTY UTERUS Theater plays about childlessness The Children by Lucy Kirkwood Play Review Yerma by Federico García Lorca Play Review The Quiet House by Gareth Farr Play Review Avalanche: A love story by Julia Le MOVIES – EMPTY UTERUS A blog and a book in the making about childless women around theworld.
BOOKS – EMPTY UTERUS A blog and a book in the making about childless women around theworld.
VIDEOS – EMPTY UTERUS A friend of mine sent me the link to this interview with the incredibly beautiful and talented actress Dana Delany. You can read more about her life and her work here, but the reason I was sent this link is that Isabel knew I’d be happy to know about one more childless woman who seems to be having a great life! Dana is 60 years old (I am still in shock!) and said her secret for looking young PODCASTS – EMPTY UTERUS Podcasts about childlessness and interviews with childless women Interview with Simone de Beauvoir (1979) Interview with Lionel Shriver– Hard Talk,
BOOKS – EMPTY UTERUS I watched Battle of the sexes last night, and it’s fair to say it’s been a while since a movie touched my heart so profoundly. This time it wasn’t the movie itself – which is well produced and has fine actors – but the details of Billie Jean’s story: A tennis player who, back in 1973, put everything she had conquered (dozens of titles) on the line, hoping that, by winning a match THE UNIT – EMPTY UTERUS I haven’t read The Unit by Ninni Holmqvist yet, but this synopsis got me very interested in making time for it. Who is dispensable?” That’s the chilling 1984-esque question that Holmqvist poses in her near-future novel. Childless women aged 50 (and men aged 60) must leave their homes and enter “the unit,” where they will live out their days participating in government experiments and PODCASTS – EMPTY UTERUS Rebecca Solnit (Photo by Jim Harrington) After I finished listening to A field guide to getting lost, by Rebecca Solnit, I was curious to know what she sounded like when not reading her books. A couple of online searches later and I ended up downloading one episode of the podcast called “ On being ” presented by Krista Tippett, where she had Rebecca as a guest. THE CONFLICT: HOW MODERN MOTHERHOOD UNDERMINES THE STATUS Elisabeth Badinter has for decades been in the vanguard of the European fight for women’s equality. Now, in an explosive new book, she points her finger at a most unlikely force undermining the status of women: liberal motherhood, in thrall to all that is “natural.” CHILDLESS – EMPTY UTERUS I watched Battle of the sexes last night, and it’s fair to say it’s been a while since a movie touched my heart so profoundly. This time it wasn’t the movie itself – which is well produced and has fine actors – but the details of Billie Jean’s story: A tennis player who, back in 1973, put everything she had conquered (dozens of titles) on the line, hoping that, by winning a matchEMPTY UTERUS
My favorites: # 1 (Because it made me so angry) Emily asks her father permission to write during the night for quiet’s sake. He agrees. Then she asks him to contact a friend who is the editor of a newspaper that publishes poetry. He does so, and soon after, Emily submits some of her poems for consideration. When Samuel Bowles, the editor of AUTHORS – EMPTY UTERUS Marguerite Yourcenar ( 8 June 1903 – 17 December 1987) was a French novelist and essayist born in Brussels, Belgium, who became a US citizen in 1947. Winner of the Prix Femina and the Erasmus Prize, she was the first woman elected to the Académie française, in 1980, and the seventeenth person to occupy Seat 3. Source: Wikipedia.REBECCA SOLNIT
Rebecca Solnit (Photo by Jim Harrington) After I finished listening to A field guide to getting lost, by Rebecca Solnit, I was curious to know what she sounded like when not reading her books. A couple of online searches later and I ended up downloading one episode of the podcast called “ On being ” presented by Krista Tippett, where she had Rebecca as a guest. ABOUT – EMPTY UTERUS About. Empty uterus is a blog and a book in the making about childless women around the world. A library where I archive parts of my research about the process of reflecting and deciding on not becoming a mother. Here you’ll find reviews of movies, books, podcasts, plays, magazine and newspaper articles I’ve come across since I started the MOVIES – EMPTY UTERUS Hello, I must be going is a lovely movie with a simple, relatable, insightful and well-written script — with some beautiful drops of humor thrown here and there — beautifully delivered by terrific actors who look, sound and behave like regular people in everyday situations.. My favorite line, which was not said by the childless woman in the movie, but by a young man, is: BACHA POSH – EMPTY UTERUS The daughter will do, as long as she dresses in male clothing, has her hair cut short and uses a male name. By doing so, she is allowed outside the house by herself, and she can start working to help the family make money. These girls are known as “Bacha Posh“, which means “dressed up as a boy“. It’s a documentary directed by BACHA POSH – EMPTY UTERUS The daughter will do, as long as she dresses in male clothing, has her hair cut short and uses a male name. By doing so, she is allowed outside the house by herself, and she can start working to help the family make money. These girls are known as “Bacha Posh“, which means “dressed up as a boy“. It’s a documentary directed byKIM CATTRALL
Fantastic interview with Kim Cattrall by Jane Garvey at BBC Woman’s Hour special program Kim Cattrall takeover. The whole thing is worth-listening to, but I have transcribed the part about no THE CONFLICT: HOW MODERN MOTHERHOOD UNDERMINES THE STATUS Author: The Conflict: How Modern Motherhood Undermines the Status of Women. Elisabeth Badinter has for decades been in the vanguard of the European fight for women’s equality. Now, in an explosive new book, she points her finger at a most unlikely force undermining the status of women: liberal motherhood, in thrall to all that is “natural.”. MOOMINS – EMPTY UTERUS I’ve lived in Sweden on and off for about six years, and this experience allowed me to hear about women whose lives I’d probably know nothing about had I stayed in my home country on the other side of the Atlantic ocean.EMPTY UTERUS
My favorites: # 1 (Because it made me so angry) Emily asks her father permission to write during the night for quiet’s sake. He agrees. Then she asks him to contact a friend who is the editor of a newspaper that publishes poetry. He does so, and soon after, Emily submits some of her poems for consideration. When Samuel Bowles, the editor of AUTHORS – EMPTY UTERUS Marguerite Yourcenar ( 8 June 1903 – 17 December 1987) was a French novelist and essayist born in Brussels, Belgium, who became a US citizen in 1947. Winner of the Prix Femina and the Erasmus Prize, she was the first woman elected to the Académie française, in 1980, and the seventeenth person to occupy Seat 3. Source: Wikipedia.REBECCA SOLNIT
Rebecca Solnit (Photo by Jim Harrington) After I finished listening to A field guide to getting lost, by Rebecca Solnit, I was curious to know what she sounded like when not reading her books. A couple of online searches later and I ended up downloading one episode of the podcast called “ On being ” presented by Krista Tippett, where she had Rebecca as a guest. ABOUT – EMPTY UTERUS About. Empty uterus is a blog and a book in the making about childless women around the world. A library where I archive parts of my research about the process of reflecting and deciding on not becoming a mother. Here you’ll find reviews of movies, books, podcasts, plays, magazine and newspaper articles I’ve come across since I started the MOVIES – EMPTY UTERUS Hello, I must be going is a lovely movie with a simple, relatable, insightful and well-written script — with some beautiful drops of humor thrown here and there — beautifully delivered by terrific actors who look, sound and behave like regular people in everyday situations.. My favorite line, which was not said by the childless woman in the movie, but by a young man, is: BACHA POSH – EMPTY UTERUS The daughter will do, as long as she dresses in male clothing, has her hair cut short and uses a male name. By doing so, she is allowed outside the house by herself, and she can start working to help the family make money. These girls are known as “Bacha Posh“, which means “dressed up as a boy“. It’s a documentary directed by BACHA POSH – EMPTY UTERUS The daughter will do, as long as she dresses in male clothing, has her hair cut short and uses a male name. By doing so, she is allowed outside the house by herself, and she can start working to help the family make money. These girls are known as “Bacha Posh“, which means “dressed up as a boy“. It’s a documentary directed byKIM CATTRALL
Fantastic interview with Kim Cattrall by Jane Garvey at BBC Woman’s Hour special program Kim Cattrall takeover. The whole thing is worth-listening to, but I have transcribed the part about no THE CONFLICT: HOW MODERN MOTHERHOOD UNDERMINES THE STATUS Author: The Conflict: How Modern Motherhood Undermines the Status of Women. Elisabeth Badinter has for decades been in the vanguard of the European fight for women’s equality. Now, in an explosive new book, she points her finger at a most unlikely force undermining the status of women: liberal motherhood, in thrall to all that is “natural.”. MOOMINS – EMPTY UTERUS I’ve lived in Sweden on and off for about six years, and this experience allowed me to hear about women whose lives I’d probably know nothing about had I stayed in my home country on the other side of the Atlantic ocean. CHILDFREE – EMPTY UTERUS A friend of mine sent me the link to this interview with the incredibly beautiful and talented actress Dana Delany. You can read more about her life and her work here, but the reason I was sent this link is that Isabel knew I’d be happy to know about one more childless woman who seems to be having a great life! Dana is 60 years old (I am still in shock!) and said her secret for looking youngREBECCA SOLNIT
Rebecca Solnit (Photo by Jim Harrington) After I finished listening to A field guide to getting lost, by Rebecca Solnit, I was curious to know what she sounded like when not reading her books. A couple of online searches later and I ended up downloading one episode of the podcast called “ On being ” presented by Krista Tippett, where she had Rebecca as a guest. HELLO, I MUST BE GOING Hello, I must be going is a lovely movie with a simple, relatable, insightful and well-written script — with some beautiful drops of humor thrown here and there — beautifully delivered by terrific actors who look, sound and behave like regular people in everyday situations.. My favorite line, which was not said by the childless woman in the movie, but by a young man, is: BOOKS – EMPTY UTERUS I watched Battle of the sexes last night, and it’s fair to say it’s been a while since a movie touched my heart so profoundly. This time it wasn’t the movie itself – which is well produced and has fine actors – but the details of Billie Jean’s story: A tennis player who, back in 1973, put everything she had conquered (dozens of titles) on the line, hoping that, by winning a match VIDEOS – EMPTY UTERUS At some point, the documentary features a scene where the narrator reads out a passage of a letter that Tove wrote to her friend, Eva Konikoff, in 1941, when she was 27 years old. It was just a little paragraph, but the letter looked so exciting that I searched online for her correspondence and found a more significant piece. WRITER – EMPTY UTERUS Rebecca Solnit (Photo by Jim Harrington) After I finished listening to A field guide to getting lost, by Rebecca Solnit, I was curious to know what she sounded like when not reading her books. A couple of online searches later and I ended up downloading one episode of the podcast called “ On being ” presented by Krista Tippett, where she had Rebecca as a guest. CHILDLESS – EMPTY UTERUS Empty Uterus. Posted by Nicole Louie on Saturday, May 6, 2017. The project. Empty uterus is a blog and a book in the making about childless women around the world. The blog. A library where I archive parts of my research about the process of reflecting and deciding on not becoming a mother.THE BABY MATRIX
The Baby Matrix looks at long-held beliefs about parenthood and reproduction, and unravels why we believe what we believe. It lays out: -the historical origins of beliefs about parenthood and reproduction. -why many of these beliefs no longer work for society or were never true in the first place. – why we continue to believethem anyway.
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EMILY DICKINSON’S BIOPIC Posted by Nicole Louie on Sunday, September 15, 2019 While A Quiet Passion may not be the best biographical film out there, it has its moments.My favorites:
# 1 (Because it made me so angry) Emily asks her father permission to write during the night for quiet’s sake. He agrees. Then she asks him to contact a friend who is the editor of a newspaper that publishes poetry. He does so, and soon after, Emily submits some of her poems for consideration. When Samuel Bowles, the editor of the Springfield Republican, writes back, he starts by condescendingly informing her that he has decided to publish one of the poems that showed “_some wit_“, then ends heart-wrenchingly by saying: _“But I must confess that the genuine classics of every language are the work of men, not of women. Women, I fear, cannot create the permanent treasures of literature.”_ #2 (Because it captures her wittiness so well) EMILY’S FATHER: _“Will you come to church, Emily? Your soul is notrivial matter.”_
EMILY: _“I agree, father. That is why I’m so meticulous in guarding its independence.”_ #3 (Because it made me think about the concept of family; the family we don’t get to choose, and the one about which we have a say, should we wish to form it). EMILY’S FRIEND: _“Will you marry?”_ EMILY: _“I suppose in time I shall. Isn’t that what we all do in the end? I don’t know. I can’t imagine myself beyond my family. Among strangers.”_Read more:
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Leave a Comment on Emily Dickinson’s biopic -------------------------RACHEL CARSON
Posted by Nicole Louie on Sunday, September 15, 2019 Thirty minutes into this documentary about the American marine biologist and author Rachel Carson , it became clear how incredibly resilient and dedicated she was. How, after working the whole day as a writer and having dinner with her mother, she would lock herself in her room and write until dawn. By the end of it, I had realized how daunting her self-imposed mission was and why it requiredso much effort.
Working as a junior aquatic biologist at the Bureau of Fisheries, she had access to thousands of official papers and studies about the ocean, all written in a very specific way, and her goal was to read, understand, connect and synthesize them all so that she could then tell it in prose that was accessible to people everywhere. From war records to submarine research, she would use any piece of information she could find to call attention to the dangers of environmental contamination to humankind. She had to translate the pile of material on her desk, written in academic and technical language, into something easy to comprehend. She had to transform it all, while still being true to it, to tell us that everything is connected, that we all share the environment, and that we must share responsibility for it. Her journey as a nature writer started when she was 14. Later, in her early 20s, she saw the ocean for the first time and fell deeply in love with it. From that point onwards, she lived a life of the mind. An isolated existence full of responsibilities: Her father died when she was 28, and her sister when she was 30. She then became the sole provider for herself, her mother, and two nieces. She never got married. Later in life, she also had to provide for the son of one of her nieces, who she adopted as her own, shortly before dying. The ocean was her parallel universe. She wanted to tell the world about its beauty. Pitching stories to newspapers, she was determined to become a full-time writer. So she used weekends and evenings forcreative work.
Her three first books were beautiful odes to the sea. Then, in 1962, her masterpiece came along: Silent spring – a book that aimed to demonstrate that the survival of men depends on the balance of nature. The same men that believed then that pesticides were not poisonous to humans or the land and water resources around them. The same men who still think that they can control nature. > Man’s endeavors to control nature by his powers to alter and to > destroy would inevitably evolve into a war against himself, a battle > he would lose unless he came to terms with nature. Nobody knew what the ocean was really like before Rachel Carson. Nobody talked to the public about pesticides, radioactive nuclear fallout, and their relationship to cancer, infertility, and birth defects. By writing and publishing her books, she challenged corporations and authorities of one-sided science; she raised the level of awareness of the general public. _“Her body of work is one of science, literature, and art.”_ And one that spearheaded the environmental movement around the globe. Keep reading about Rachel: * Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, and the Tumultuous Summer of 1962 * The right way to remember Rachel Carson Posted in About , BooksTagged environment
, Rachel Carson
Leave a Comment on Rachel Carson -------------------------CAMERON DIAZ
Posted by Nicole Louie on Sunday, November 25, 2018 > Not having a baby might really make things easier, but that > doesn’t make it an easy decision. I like protecting people, but I > was never drawn to being a mother.Cameron Diaz
(American actress)
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Leave a Comment on Cameron Diaz -------------------------HELEN MIRREN
Posted by Nicole Louie on Sunday, July 15, 2018 > Childlessness comes in all shapes and sizes, not just voluntary and > involuntary. No woman should have to explain her childlessness. It > is, quite simply, nobody else’s damn business.HELEN MIRREN
(English Actress)
Posted in Quotes Tagged childfree , Helen Mirren Leave a Comment on Helen Mirren -------------------------LIONEL SHRIVER
Posted by Nicole Louie on Sunday, June 3, 2018 > The absence of doll babies in my toy chest didn’t seriously > influence my later decision not to become a mother; rather, I > disdained Hasbro’s Baby Alive wetting doll because I was already > the kind of girl who would grow up to be childless by choice.LIONEL SHRIVER
(American journalist and author) Posted in Quotes Tagged childfree , childless, Lionel Shriver
Leave a Comment on Lionel Shriver ------------------------- THINK BEFORE YOU BREED Posted by Nicole Louie on Sunday, May 27, 2018 > People are still expected to provide reasons not to have children, > but no reasons are required to have them. It’s assumed that if > individuals do not have children it is because they are infertile, > too selfish or have just not yet gotten around to it. In any case, > they owe their interlocutor an explanation. On the other hand, no > one says to the proud parents of a newborn, Why did you choose to > have that child? What are your reasons? The choice to procreate is > not regarded as needing any thought or justification.CHRISTINE OVERALL
(Canadian philosopher) After thinking long and hard, Christine decided that she wanted to experience motherhood. Then she became not only a mother but also an advocate for conscious motherhood, which I find incredibly beautiful and inspiring. She is the author of the article “Think before youbreed
”
published in 2012 on the New York Times. Posted in Quotes Taggedconsciousmotherhood
, motherhood
Leave a Comment on Think before you breed -------------------------TOVE JANSSON
Posted by Nicole Louie onMonday, May 7, 2018
I’ve lived in Sweden on and off for about six years, and this experience allowed me to hear about women whose lives I’d probably know nothing about had I stayed in my home country on the other side of the Atlantic ocean. One of them is Tove Jansson, a Swedish-speaking Finnish author, painter and illustrator who created a series of books and comic strips about the adorable and incredibly nuanced and subliminal Moomins.
When visiting bookshops in Malmö, I remember often seeing the hippopotamus-like-but-not-quite creatures on paper without having any idea of what exactly they were or meant. Recently, upon researching documentaries about childless women for the Empty Uterus Youtube Channel,
I came across Moominland Tales: The Life of Tove Jansson directed by Eleanor Yule. Having recognized the characters, I clicked on play. And how happy I’m that I did so, as it was a great pleasure to learn so much about Tove’s life in just under an hour. I’d have watched the documentary regardless of her marital or reproductive status, but to my greater pleasure, it turns out that shewas childless.
At some point, the documentary features a scene where the narrator reads out a passage of a letter that Tove wrote to her friend, Eva Konikoff, in 1941, when she was 27 years old. It was just a little paragraph, but the letter looked so exciting that I searched online for her correspondence and founda
more significant piece. Here are some of her thoughts on marriage and having children: > All the reasons I don’t want to get married came up. One man after > another, and Pappa, Faffan, came first. The whole male solidarity > and protective pedestal of privileges, their weaknesses, inviolable > and fenced in by slogans, their inconsistency and charming disregard > for the feeling of others proclaimed with no trace of nuance as they > beat a big drum from morning to evening from the safety of their > boys’ network and connections. I can’t afford it, I haven’t > time to marry any of them! I’m no good at admiring and comforting. > Of course I’m sorry for them and of course I like them, but I’ve > no intention of devoting my whole life to a performance I’ve seen > through. I see how Faffan , the most helpless and > instinctive of men, tyrannises over us all, how Ham is > unhappy because she has always said yes, smoothed over problems, > given in and sacrificed her life, receiving nothing in return except > children war can kill or destroy with negativity. A men’s war! > I can see what would happen to my work if I married. It’s no use; > I have all these feminine instincts to comfort, admire, submit, > sacrifice myself. I would either be a bad painter or a bad wife. And > I refuse to give birth to children who can be killed in some future > war . . . Can we not be together without making demands on each > other’s work, life and ideas, continue to be free beings without > either one having to give way? And here is the documentary. Posted in Movies , Quotes, Videos
Tagged childfree
, childless
, Moomins
, Tove Jansson
Leave a Comment on Tove Jansson -------------------------SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR
Posted by Nicole Louie onMonday, May 7, 2018
> One is not born a woman. One becomes one.SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR
(French philosopher and writer) Posted in Quotes Tagged childfree , childless , Simone de Beauvoir, womanhood
Leave a Comment on Simone de Beauvoir -------------------------BACHA POSH
Posted by Nicole Louie on Saturday, March 17, 2018 Today I watched the documentary “SHE IS MY SON: AFGHANISTAN BACHA POSH, WHEN GIRLS BECOME BOYS ” and learned about the consequences of a deep-rooted belief, in Afghanistan patriarchal society, that “_Every woman must have a husband beside her. If not a husband, a son will do_.” And what happens when a couple has only daughters and no sons? The daughter will do, as long as she dresses in male clothing, has her hair cut short and uses a male name. By doing so, she is allowed outside the house by herself, and she can start working to help the family make money. These girls are known as “_Bacha Posh_“, which means “_dressed up as a boy_“. It’s a documentary directed by Alexander Avilov, which is available on YouTube and the RTD documentary channel. To those interested, I’d say: Stop reading this post, press play and watch it now. It is worthit.
In less than half an hour, you’ll have a glance at the lives of four girls: Fazilya, Asiya, Najla and Amena. My head starting spinning from the very first minute. I was, above all, interested in what the girls themselves had to say, how they felt and how they coped with the imposed gender-swap, so I typed the words of a couple of them here (mixed with the voice-over of the narrator for context).NARRATOR:
> Asiya likes the freedom that her boys’ clothes bring her. A > privilege that her female friends can’t enjoy.ASIYA:
> In Afghanistan, people don’t have the same rights. In other > countries, men and women are equal, but that’s not the case here. > Maybe that’s why I became a Bacha Posh. Women aren’t able to do > what men are. Even sports! A man can play sports, but if a woman > does, people say it’s a disgrace. A woman must stay at home and > take care of children. People don’t want women to work like men. > At school, they don’t let me be.AMENA:
> Even though I’m a girl, I must become a boy. I want to do > something good for my family, for my father, that’s why I’m a> Bacha Posh.
NARRATOR:
> Dressed in boys clothes, Amena goes to the center every day to sell > water. Outside of her father’s hearing, she confesses that she > hates the job. It’s hard to hide from passersby that she is a > girl. (She is bullied in the streets).>
> Two years ago, there was some hope to Amena’s parents. > Mohammed’s wife gave birth to a boy. The family of modest means > had only two months to celebrate the heir before he tragically died. > Amena’s mother can’t have more children now, meaning that she > will have to remain a boy for a few more years. THE PERSON BEHIND THE CAMERA ASKS AMENA’S FATHER: > How long do you want Amena to stay a Bacha Posh?AMENA’S FATHER:
> Until her sister grows up to the age of 11. Then I’ll make her a > Bacha Posh and Amena will be able to continue her education. NARRATOR (TALKING ABOUT NAJLA): > Girls dressed as boys is an Afghanistan tradition. It’s concealed > but not taboo. But when Bacha Posh girls come of age, they go back > to dressing as girls and their parents try to marry them off. > Usually to a relative. It’s a rare exception who refuses to start > a family and have children. She wants freedom. And in Afghanistan, > only the men have that. So many questions in what is now my very dizzy head. The biggest of all, being: “WHY?“ Deep down, I already know the answer, and “The Second Sex“, by Simone de
Beauvoir
, comes
to mind striking like lightning. Thankfully, the book is carefully and proudly shelved in a special section of my library, which allowed me to find the passages I was looking for quickly:SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR:
> In truth, to go for a walk with one’s eyes open is enough to > demonstrate that humanity is divided into two classes of individuals > whose clothes, faces, bodies, smiles, gaits, interests, and > occupations are manifestly different. Perhaps these differences are > superficial, perhaps they are destined to disappear. What is certain > is that they do most obviously exist.>
> If her functioning as a female is not enough to define woman, if we > decline also to explain her through ‘the eternal feminine’, and > if nevertheless we admit, provisionally, that women do exist, then > we must face the question “what is a woman”?>
> Thus humanity is male and man defines woman not in herself but as > relative to him; she is not regarded as an autonomous being. Posted in Books , MoviesTagged Afghanistan
, Bacha Posh
, Simone de Beavouir, The Second Sex
Leave a Comment on Bacha Posh -------------------------CHARLOTTE BRONTË
Posted by Nicole Louie on Saturday, March 3, 2018 > I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with > an independent will.>
> Charlotte Brontë > – Jane Eyre > (English novelist and poet) Posted in Quotes Tagged author , Charlotte Brontë, childless
, writer
Leave a Comment on Charlotte Brontë -------------------------REBECCA SOLNIT
Posted by Nicole Louie on Sunday, February 18, 2018Rebecca
Solnit (Photo by Jim Harrington) After I finished listening to A field guide to getting lost,
by Rebecca Solnit , I was curious to know what she sounded like when not reading her books. A couple of online searches later and I ended up downloading one episode of the podcast called “On being”
presented by Krista Tippett , where she had Rebecca as a guest. To my complete surprise, they were discussing her new book, that, among other things, explores the question of motherhood and cultural expectations attached to it. I was about to type the passage where they talked about this topic when I noticed the transcript was already readily available on the website. How wonderful (and what a fantastic team behind thisproduction)!
I’d listen to the whole thing if I were you, but in case you are short for time, here it goes: MS. TIPPETT: I’d just love to have a conversation with you about this piece that was in Harper’s not that long ago, about about the choice not to have children. MS. SOLNIT: Oh, yeah. It’s called “The Mother of All Questions.” MS. TIPPETT: “The Mother of All Questions.” And part of what you were reflecting on, or a jumping-off point for your reflection, was the fact that people are so curious about that and, in fact, so presumptuous about it. And I think you make the case very quickly that it’s a valid and life-giving choice, not to have children. But in fact, the piece, like so much of what you write, becomes a reflection on the vast expanse of what it is to be alive. And so there’s this: you said, “People lock onto motherhood as a key to feminine identity in part from the belief that children are the best way to fulfill your capacity to love, even though the list of monstrous, ice-hearted mothers is extensive. But there are so many things to love besides one’s own offspring, so many things that need love, so much other work love has to do in the world.” MS. SOLNIT: Yeah, exactly. MS. TIPPETT: And you say: “There’s so much other work love has to do in the world.” I just feel like that’s so worth just putting out in public life and reflecting on. MS. SOLNIT: Yeah, and it’s partly — we overemphasize this very specific zone of love. It’s as though we’ve hyper-mapped it and obsessed about it and shone lights on it and things. And then there’s this whole other territory of relationships, to the larger world in particular and to public life, to — I hang out with a lot of climate activists, and there’s this profound love they have for the natural world, for the future, for justice. And that really shapes lives and gives them tremendous meaning. And it benefits all of us that they have this and that this motivates them, because they’re acting on behalf of all of us. And we should call that love. MS. TIPPETT: And it’s a passionate love, right? It’s a passionatelove.
MS. SOLNIT: Absolutely. It’s just — it’s ferocious, and it’s protective the way that mother love can be. And if anything’s going to save the planet, it’s that love. But mostly we don’t even acknowledge that it exists, and so we have these blank spots on the map of who we are. And I want to try and fill those in and encourage people to go there, to recognize that actually, their lives can take place or are already taking place there and that this will give them this bigger sense of self. SOURCE: On being podcast with Rebecca Solnit, in Dec 2017. Posted in Podcasts TaggedAmerican , author
, childless
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Leave a Comment on Rebecca Solnit -------------------------BILLIE JEAN
Posted by Nicole Louie on Sunday, February 11, 2018 I watched Battle of the sexes last night, and it’s fair to say it’s been a while since a movie touched my heart so profoundly. This time it wasn’t the movie itself – which is well produced and has fine actors – but the details of Billie Jean’sstory : A tennis
player who, back in 1973, put everything she had conquered (dozens of titles) on the line, hoping that, by winning a match against a man, women would be seen and respected as athletes, not as “female athletes”, and, therefore, “less skilled”. Billie Jean’s contribution to women rights is massive, has been continuous, and happened both inside and outside the tennis court. This movie is an excellent way to start, but if you wish to learn more about her, here are the titles of two books she wrote: * Pressure is a Privilege: Lessons I’ve Learned from Life and theBattle of the Sexes
* Billie Jean
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, childless
Leave a Comment on Billie Jean -------------------------MAY SARTON
Posted by Nicole Louie on Sunday, February 11, 2018 > We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that > self may prove to be.MAY SARTON
(American poet, novelist and memoirist) Posted in Quotes Taggedquotes
Leave a Comment on May Sarton -------------------------ANAÏS NIN
Posted by Nicole Louie on Saturday, December 2, 2017 I was listening to Essential Anaïs Nin uninterruptedly while making a cup of coffee and tidying up when it hit me. The freedom now available to me, or should I say finally noticed by me? The mobility, the lack of attachment to a room, sofa, bed, or chair. The no longer needed quiet corner, for Anaïs’ voice would muffle the external sounds. From now on, I could not only walk all around the house but also leave it and take her with me. She would whisper her many adventures in my ears on my way to work, while I wait for the tube or travel somewhere nearby or far away. She would help me sleep by telling me a story or singing me a lullaby when my arms are too tired to hold the heavy books I keep buying and for which I rarely have time. It would take adapting and open-mindedness. It would mean leaving behind my conservative view about reading – one that always made me so proud, but that now, I finally understood, was based on ignorance and prejudice about new technologies for readers. The truth is that by deeming myself a true book lover, I held on for too long to the desire to turn and smell paper pages, and was blind to the most recent ways of getting to know new words and revisiting old ones. Reading books in digital format was the first step I took away from bulks of paper bound together, and The Diary of Anaïs Ninwas
the first thing I read on my Kindle – at the time, still quite cynical about how natural the reading experience would feel until I finally surrendered. So, in a way, it is no surprise – and serendipity comes to mind – that one year after getting acquainted with my electronic reading device, my first audiobook was also by Anaïs.
She seems to take me further every time we meet, to guide me into the unknown — her thirst for new ways of living, of loving, of being — and my empty cup gets fuller the more I get to know her. Posted in Books , PodcastsTagged Anaïs Nin
, audiobooks
Leave a Comment on Anaïs Nin -------------------------THE UNIT
Posted by Nicole Louie on Sunday, September 10, 2017 I haven’t read The Unitby Ninni Holmqvist
yet,
but this synopsis got me very interested in making time for it. > Who is dispensable?” That’s the chilling 1984> -esque
> question that Holmqvist>
> poses in her near-future novel. Childless women aged 50 (and men > aged 60) must leave their homes and enter “the unit,” where they > will live out their days participating in government experiments and > donating their organs to younger, more “productive” members of > society. When Dorrit arrives at the unit, she is ready to accept her > fate, but when she unexpectedly finds companionship in another > “dispensable,” she discovers a reason to live. Indie bookstore> Orinda Books
>
> says, “A taut, creepy, yet thought-provoking page-turner, _The > Unit_ is a meditation on the consequences of complacency, the value > of human life, and what we’re prepared to give up for security and> comfort.
Source of the text: Literature at every latitude Posted in Books Tagged books, chidless
, Ninni Holmqvist
Leave a Comment on The Unit -------------------------IRIS MURDOCH
Posted by Nicole Louie on Saturday, September 9, 2017 If my memory doesn’t fail me, about seven years ago, while still living in Sweden, I watched Iris . A beautiful movie in which Judi Dench and Kate Winslet share the heavy-loaded mission of acting Iris Murdoch extraordinary and sublime life in two phases. Ninety-one minutes was all it took me to fall in love with her. A couple of years later, I found a job and moved to Ireland, her home country. I remember how excited I was at the prospect of being in places where she had been, and I knew that I would buy every book, every diary she has written for the possibility of scanning her brain through her own words, memories, and twisted lies. I knew I’d read her works chronologically, as a timeline, and backward, as apalindrome.
To my complete surprise, for three years, whenever I entered a bookshop and asked for Iris Murdoch books, I’d get a shrug or an “I’m not sure we have them,” or a “Check the women’s books section.” I assumed she would have her books printed in gold at the front of every Irish bookshop or library, but no, Joyce and Yeats were all they seem to care about. Then today, in my last week living in Irish soil, by taking a new path to town, I came across a rare book shop I had never seen before. There I went, opening the door and gazing at dozens of old and colorful book covers. The woman inside asked if I was looking for something in particular, I said: “_Do you have anything by Iris Murdoch?_“. She went: “_Iris Mur… Yes, I have. Only one, though. B__ut it’s a signed copy!_” My heart skipped a bit.* _How much?_
* _Err, let me see. 95 euros._ I tried not to act as surprised as I was and rapidly converted the value into my home country currency: 95 EUR is something like 500 BRL, which is roughly half of a minimum wage in Brazil. After living abroad for almost ten years, I still convert everything into Brazilian Reais. It is as if, no matter where I go, “my currency” continues to be the base for financial decision making, which, of course, makes no sense considering the very different economic conditions in both countries and the fact that now I’m paid in Euros. However, still, the mind goes where it goes.* _I’ll take it._
* _Do you want a bag?_* _Yes, please._
Of course I wanted a bag! A bag to carry and protect the most expensive stack of paper I ever bought in my life from the ever-falling drops of rain from the Dublin skies. “_But it’s a signed copy!_” I repeated the woman’s line in my head. Not that I needed convincing. I knew its value: The chance to touch pages that Iris had touched, to have a copy of the first edition of one of her books, a book made and bought in Ireland. Who knows, maybe there is an Irish woman signing books as Iris and making a fortune thanks to fools like me. Perhaps the fraudulent woman is not even Irish. Who knows? Who cares? I don’t. I knew what having the book would do to me. This is the stuff dreams are made of. The fuel to believers, to faith, to hope. Back home I went, happiness personified, carrying a pulsing body that is starving for stories like hers and for more time to read all the stuff I buy. By the time I reached my doorsteps, I had this post written in my head, from the very first word to the last dot. Posted in About , BooksTagged Iris Murdoch
Leave a Comment on Iris Murdoch ------------------------- HELLO, I MUST BE GOING Posted by Nicole Louie on Friday, July 7, 2017 Hello, I must be going is a lovely movie with a simple, relatable, insightful and well-written script — with some beautiful drops of humor thrown here and there — beautifully delivered by terrific actors who look, sound and behave like regular people in everyday situations. My favorite line, which was not said by the childless woman in the movie, but by a young man, is: > _Sometimes it’s just easier, you know, to be like other people > want you to be. Rather than fight it._ He tells this to the childless woman, with whom he is having an affair when explaining why he lets his mother continue to think he is gay when he is not. She started thinking he was gay after he played a gay character in a play. > _She is really into being accepting, so I just let her think I’m > gay. And she gets to be accepting._ Fast forward 5 min and then it’s time for Amy (the childless woman)to say:
> Don’t do it. Just don’t do it if you don’t want to do it. > It’s your life, right? It’s nobody else’s. I could explain what she was referring to in the scene, but does it matter? Not really, as I think this line could apply to anything inlife.
Even though the topics discussed in the two scenes mentioned above are not the same, I felt like putting them together, putting their lines together, because the theme was the same: being yourself, or finding out who you genuinely want to become. This young character let his mom and other people believe that he was gay and that he enjoyed being an actor. He hated it. All of it. Hereally did.
Some women, for whatever reason, maybe because it is easier for them, do the same. They prefer to let people think they are going to have a child one day so that they don’t have to talk about their lack of desire, infertility, or ambivalence about becoming mothers. It’s, in a way, an acting exercise and they too are playing a role. It’s my type of movie, but not the type of role I want to play inlife.
Posted in Movies Tagged childless , Hello I must begoing , movies
Leave a Comment on Hello, I must be going -------------------------VIRGINIA WOOLF
Posted by Nicole Louie on Monday, June 19, 2017 > The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.VIRGINIA WOOLF
(English writer)
Posted in Quotes Taggedauthor , childless
, Virginia Woolf
, writer
Leave a Comment on Virginia Woolf -------------------------ARUNDHATI ROY
Posted by Nicole Louie on Monday, June 12, 2017 > To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To > never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity > of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue > beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or > complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above > all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, > never, to forget… another world is not only possible, she is on > her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.Arundhati Roy
(Indian writer)
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, writer
Leave a Comment on Arundhati Roy -------------------------DANA DELANY
Posted by Nicole Louie on Monday, June 5, 2017 A friend of mine sent me the link to this interview with the incredibly beautiful and talented actress Dana Delany. You can read more about her life and her work here , but the reason I was sent this link is that Isabel knew I’d be happy to know about one more childless woman who seems to be having a great life! Dana is 60 years old (I am still in shock!) and said her secret for looking young is, and I quote: > _I’ve never been married, I don’t have kids, I do yoga every > day, and I drink a lot of wine.’_ I am sure there is much more to it than she reveals, but, hey, why don’t we try it ourselves? There is a yoga course waiting for me starting next week, and a bottle of wine needing some attention in my kitchen. Off I go. Wish meluck!
Posted in Videos Tagged chidless , childfree, Dana Delany
1 Comment on Dana Delany -------------------------KATHARINE HEPBURN
Posted by Nicole Louie on Sunday, May 28, 2017 > Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world I’m > sure, but if it doesn’t interest you, don’t do it — I, > personally, would have made a terrible mother.KATHARINE HEPBURN
(American actress)
Posted in Quotes Tagged childfree , childless, Katharine Hepburn
, quotes
Leave a Comment on Katharine Hepburn -------------------------MOLLY PEACOCK
Posted by Nicole Louie on Sunday, May 21, 2017 > We live in a pronatalist culture, so when you decide not to have > children, you find yourself at the far edge of the bell curve. How > do you live happily there? Well, you live happily there if you are > comfortable with your own nature. And that requires talking about > how to separate motherhood from female identity. It’s still a > taboo subject — not even discussed in women’s studies programs. > And endlessly fascinating to me, especially as the Census Bureau > tells us we will be seeing increasing numbers of people making this> decision.
MOLLY PEACOCK
(American-Canadian poet, essayist, biographer) Posted in Quotes Tagged childfree , childless, Molly Peacock
, quotes
Leave a Comment on Molly Peacock -------------------------KIM CATTRALL
Posted by Nicole Louie on Sunday, May 14, 2017 Fantastic interview with Kim Cattrall by Jane Garvey at BBC Woman’s Hour special program Kim Cattrall takeover . The whole thing is worth-listening to, but I have transcribed the part about not having children here for you, ladies: > _– JANE GARVEY__: You have talked very openly in the past about > not having children, which, I have to say, is a subject that I find > difficult to raise with people. Particularly the women who appear on > Woman’s Hour. In fact, I shy away from addressing the issue unless > the person has come on specifically to talk about it. And so it is > important to emphasize that you wanted o introduce not having > children into the conversation. I haven’t used the term childless > or, at least, I don’t think I have because that is offensive> isn’t it?_
>
> _– KIM CATTRALL__: Well, it is the “less” that is offensive, > isn’t it? Child-less, it sounds like you are less because you > haven’t had a child. I think that for a lot of people, for my > generation, it wasn’t actually a conscious choice. It was a > feeling of I am on this road and things are going really well. And I > am very happy. And I’ll do it next year. I’ll do it in two > years. I’ll do it in five years. And then suddenly you are in your > early forties and you think maybe now? And you go to your doctor and > she says to you, well, yes we can do it, but you’ll have to become > a bit of a science experiment here because we have to find out how > you can stay pregnant. We can get you pregnant but you have to stay > pregnant now because your body is not producing. So it was a feeling > of: well, do I really want to do that now? And I just thought: I > don’t know if I want it that much. What also comes with having a > child is: is this the partner that I want to spend the rest of my > life communicating with in a very intimate, intimate way throughout > the child’s life. So, for me, timing-wise it was was never right. > I have been married and I enjoyed very much been married, my two > marriages, but we never really got to the point where it seemed a > natural progression in our relationship that we would become> parents._
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> _– __JANE GARVEY__: so you didn’t become a parent and…> _
> _– __KIM CATTRALL__: not a biological parent. But I am a parent. I > have young actors and actress that I mentor. I have nieces and > nephews that I am very close to so I think the thing that I find > questionable about being childless or childfree: are you really? I > mean, there is a way to become a mother in this day and age that > doesn’t include your name on a child’s birth certificate. You > can express that maternal side of you very very clearly, very > strongly. It feels very satisfying (…). There are many different > ways to be a mom in the world._ Posted in Podcasts Tagged childfree , childless, Kim Cattrall
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Leave a Comment on Kim Cattrall -------------------------DOLLY PARTON
Posted by Nicole Louie onSunday, May 7, 2017
> I was feeling guilty about not having kids, about having a career, > that I’m not the woman I should be because I don’t have a desire > to have them, that I was selfish.DOLLY PARTON
(American singer and songwriter) Source: Dolly Parton online Posted in Quotes Tagged childfree , childless, Dolly Parton
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