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michelle

About Me

Check out my blog. I might put random rants that'll tell you more about me and what goes through my head, but then again I may not depending on what I deem worthy of everyone else reading which if you know me isn't much only cuz I tend to be very secretive which I can't decide is good or bad...hey maybe this should be a rant in my blog...
Goldfrapp - Happiness
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My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Maya Angelou, bell hooks, Gloria Steinem, Naomi Wolf, Sub-Commandante Marcos, and more to come as I think of them.

My Blog

Family, Gender and Society

Here's some great stuff from the book, Sociology: The Basics, by John J. Macionis, 2006. "Jessie Bernard (1982, orig. 1973) says that every marriage is actually TWO different relationships: a women's ...
Posted by on Sun, 17 Feb 2008 14:10:00 GMT

"...Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it..."

"Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and ...
Posted by on Mon, 23 Jul 2007 17:35:00 GMT

No expectations

I've heard this twice in the past few years. Both from men that I've been with. Both related to relationships. Both mentioned while talking about relationships. What is this idea? Where do people get ...
Posted by on Sun, 08 Apr 2007 21:21:00 GMT

How do we exist in such a world as this?

I can't believe the kind of world we live in. My heart hurts for all the suffering in the the world and how much we, as americans, contribute to it by living in our little utopias. I know you are...
Posted by on Sun, 08 Apr 2007 20:43:00 GMT

What I love about The L Word and hate about Sex in the City

The Periodic Ravings of a Single Women in the Hell that is Mundanity. Okay, lets just start with an explanation. I have sporadic fits of ranting that are focused towards whomever or whatever might be ...
Posted by on Sat, 03 Mar 2007 13:03:00 GMT

Sojourner Truth speech in 1851 at the Ohio Women's Rights Convention

..> ..>   "Ain't I a Woman?"  "Well, children, where there is so much racket there must be something out of kilter. I think that 'twixt the negroes of the South and the women at the...
Posted by on Fri, 16 Feb 2007 00:46:00 GMT