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I Still Think About Margot Kidder

Marot Kidder was an actress and activist for environmental, political, and women's causes. She was born in Yellowknife, NWT, Canada, October, 17th, 1948. She had a sister, three brothers, one daughter, and at least two grandchildren. As an actress she may be most known as Lois Lane in Superman, with Christopher Reeves. The rest of her life was busy and made messy due to mental illness. But, she was involved with many things and had a respect for people who also had problems in their lives.

I never met her. I would have liked to, not because she became famous but because she seemed to think and feel as I do, maybe a kindred spirit. She was just a few years younger than my Mother, which surprised me. I had thought we were close in age. Time flies.
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The Modern Exclusion of Woman as Inclusivity

Wikipedia is doing this #SheSaid Wiki Loves Women thing. I'd like to support it. I just don't feel I can rely on it.

The idea of giving more women a voice, or a place/forum to hear the voice they've been using for years.... is great. But, is it really about women anymore? Or is this just another placebo. Using inclusivity as a way to exclude women while pushing the agenda of men who think putting on make up, a skirt and having body modifications is all a woman really is?

I've lived through too many years as a real woman to accept men (no matter how demanding and aggressive) as women.

It bothers me that we don't even think of this as a feminist issue. The men have infiltrated and influenced too far for women to get their heads above it and have a voice. More likely, it will be other men protesting the issue, who are heard. Not us, not the women being pushed out of our own gender.

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Period Magazine

An online magazine for women, about menstruation. Health, culture, art, quotes, fun, even a little shopping.

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Museum of Menstruation and Women's Health

Created by Harry Finley. I found this link years ago. It was a real museum in his house, now it is just virtual/ online. But, it has no updates since 2016, maybe 2018.

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When I think of witches, I seem to see all over England, all over Europe…

When I think of witches, I seem to see all over England, all over Europe, women living and growing old, as common as blackberries, and as unregarded, I see them, wives and sisters of respectable men, chapel members, and blacksmiths, and small farmers, and Puritans. . . . Well, there they were, there they are, child-rearing, house-keeping, hanging washed dishcloths on currant bushes; and for diversion each other’s silly conversation, and listening to men talking together in the way that men talk and women listen. . . . Nothing for them except subjection and plaiting their hair. . . . That’s why we become witches: to show our scorn of pretending life’s a safe business, to satisfy our passion for adventure. . . . It’s to escape all that—to have a life of one’s own, not an existence doled out to you by others.

Why I Became a Witch - Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893–1978) wrote Lolly Willowes, her debut novel, shortly before meeting her life partner, the poet Valentine Ackland (née Mary Kathleen Macrory). They would live together for thirty-eight years, and catch the attention of MI5 for their communist activities. When Virginia Woolf once asked Warner, at a party in Bloomsbury, how she knew so much about witches, the author of Lolly Willowes replied matter-of-factly: “Because I am one".