International Women's Day!
Warm greetings to you all, this International Women's Day. Celebrating awesome women,but also proclaiming the right of all women to a fair go, to freedom, and to decent, safe working conditions.
Time has got away from me (what, again?) and I have no long learned post about admirable women to offer, nor especially useful comments to make.
Short notes on five women, anyway.
marmota_b told me here, in the comments, about pioneering aviatrix Božena Laglerová, who ran a brief but exciting barnstorming career from Europe to the Caribbean and back,
and asakiyume told me about Rowena Simmons, who runs a non-profit helping women to start their lives after imprisonment.
and I found by accident just a short while back about the Lady Anne of Brittany, who held firm her entire life in the struggle to keep Brittany independent from France. She was a queen of France as well, twice over, but as sovereign lady of Brittany it is the title Lady which prevails. (Her court in Brittany nurtured the most brilliant music and poetry of the time.)
Oh, time has run out! tomorrow, I promise, two more - a poet and a prisoner!
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Time has got away from me (what, again?) and I have no long learned post about admirable women to offer, nor especially useful comments to make.
Short notes on five women, anyway.
marmota_b told me here, in the comments, about pioneering aviatrix Božena Laglerová, who ran a brief but exciting barnstorming career from Europe to the Caribbean and back,
and asakiyume told me about Rowena Simmons, who runs a non-profit helping women to start their lives after imprisonment.
and I found by accident just a short while back about the Lady Anne of Brittany, who held firm her entire life in the struggle to keep Brittany independent from France. She was a queen of France as well, twice over, but as sovereign lady of Brittany it is the title Lady which prevails. (Her court in Brittany nurtured the most brilliant music and poetry of the time.)
Oh, time has run out! tomorrow, I promise, two more - a poet and a prisoner!
This entry was originally posted at http://heliopausa.dreamwidth.org/36494.html. Please comment here or there.