(From the book, though not pictured above.)
“Women‘s voices changed the game. When women participated equally in the discussion, the groups arrived at different decisions; women swung the group. When women participated more, they brought unique and helpful perspectives to the issue under discussion.”
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“Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over.” ~ Bella Abzug
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“It was only when Effia didn‘t speak or question, when she made herself small, that she could feel Baaba‘s love, or something like it.”
A universal conundrum that women feel they have make themselves small or not be noticed to be cared for.
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pickI was for 7 days by the sea, without phone, internet...just me, love ones and Kindle. I read 3 books and all of them was disappointed for different reasons. This particular book is Social Study of Albanian society with an emphasis on the phenomenon of sworn-virgins or virgjineše. I have no objection to the content but on the technical/edit side of the e-book, which screwed up the whole reading experience for me. Ebook is without images (that are
