So I looked to my mother, my teachers, and the pages of Life magazine for inspiration. After learning that Amelia Earhart kept a scrapbook with newspaper articles about successful women in male-dominated jobs, I started a scrapbook of my own. Long after I stopped clipping articles, I continued to seek out stories of women who seemed to be redefining what was possible.
For me, too, my mom was a hero; so were my grandmothers. My early teachers were also women. But I grew up in a world very different from theirs. My pediatrician was a woman, and so was the first mayor of Little Rock who I remember from my childhood. And women were going into space and breaking records here on Earth. Ensuring the rights and opportunities of women and girls remains a big piece of the unfinished business of the twenty-first century.
That is the achievement of each of the women in this book. So how did they do it? The answers are as unique as the women themselves. Writers like Rachel Carson and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie named something no one had dared talk about before. Historian Mary Beard used wit to open doors that were once closed, and Wangari Maathai, who sparked a movement to plant trees, understood the power of role modeling.
Harriet Tubman and Malala Yousafzai looked fear in the face and persevered. Nearly every single one of these women was fiercely optimistic—they had faith that their actions could make a difference. And they were right. To us, they are all gutsy women—leaders with the courage to stand up to the status quo, ask hard questions, and get the job done.
So in the moments when the long haul seems awfully long, we hope you will draw strength from these stories. We do. The landscape in which these stories unfold is a feral, slippery, purgatorial space, bracketed by the void—yet within it Russell captures the exquisite beauty and tenderness of ordinary life.
Orange World is a miracle of storytelling from a true modern master. She possessed a stunning beauty. She also possessed a stunning mind. Could the world handle both? Her beauty almost certainly saved her from the rising Nazi party and led to marriage with an Austrian arms dealer. Underestimated in everything else, she overheard the Third Reich's plans while at her husband's side, understanding more than anyone would guess. She devised a plan to flee in disguise from their castle, and the whirlwind escape landed her in Hollywood.
She became Hedy Lamarr, screen star. But she kept a secret more shocking than her heritage or her marriage: she was a scientist. And she knew a few secrets about the enemy. She had an idea that might help the country fight the Nazis A powerful novel based on the incredible true story of the glamour icon and scientist whose groundbreaking invention revolutionized modern communication, The Only Woman in the Room is a masterpiece.
Managers come and go, but Keiko stays at the store for eighteen years. Keiko is very happy, but the people close to her, from her family to her coworkers, increasingly pressure her to find a husband, and to start a proper career, prompting her to take desperate action A brilliant depiction of an unusual psyche and a world hidden from view, Convenience Store Woman is an ironic and sharp-eyed look at contemporary work culture and the pressures to conform, as well as a charming and completely fresh portrait of an unforgettable heroine.
There remained subjects women just didn't talk about, or felt they couldn't talk about. Holes existed in the fabric of women's discourse, and they needed examining. They asked thirty-four women to write about moments in life that had taken them by surprise or experiences that received too little discussion, and then they compiled these pieces into a book. It became an instant number one bestseller, a book clubs' favourite and a runaway success. Dropped Threads, says Anderson, "tapped into a powerful need to share personal stories about life's defining moments of surprise and silence.
Other stories and suggestions poured in. Dropped Threads would clearly be an ongoing project. Like the first volume, Dropped Threads 2 features stories by well-known novelists and journalists such as Jane Urquhart, Susan Swan and Shelagh Rogers, but also many excellent new writers including teachers, mothers, a civil servant, a therapist.
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Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Sep 05, Aparna rated it really liked it. I have yet to come across an author who can write more honestly and simplistically as Kamala Das.
Kamala Das is a revelation, an inspiration and a fountain of originality for those who wish to write from the heart. Coming from her age and times, its astonishing that a woman could risk everything to say things like it is - be it sexuality, infedilty, love, lust, marriage and society When you read her stories you wonder how she was so ahead of her times with just home schooling - mind you these I have yet to come across an author who can write more honestly and simplistically as Kamala Das.
When you read her stories you wonder how she was so ahead of her times with just home schooling - mind you these stories appeared in the 50s - 70s View 1 comment. Nov 10, Rajeev rated it liked it.
Kamala Das was a renowned poet, novelist, essayist and memoirist of India. She hailed from the state of Kerala and most of her works were in Malayalam. The Kept Woman and Other Stories is a collection of short stories which have been translated into English. It is notable that of the 19 stories in this collection, as many as 5 of them have been translated into English by Kamala Das herself.
Her prose in English too is exemplary. I found the short story called The Kept Woman, particularly enjoyab Kamala Das was a renowned poet, novelist, essayist and memoirist of India. I found the short story called The Kept Woman, particularly enjoyable.
The author had spent her childhood in Mumbai, and as was the practice in those days, was married off at the tender age of sixteen. As a child, Kamala Das had a flair for words.
After marriage she moved to Kolkata with her husband. Most of her works openly discuss sexuality and gender equality, topics which were frowned upon. Her writings were all the more controversial because happenings in her personal life crept into her works, and sordid details of adultery was exposed to the reading public. Her memoir called My Story was also controversial and was much ahead of its time. The stories in this collection are touching. The recurrent theme of these stories is gender equality and the fight against suppression of women.
It can well be appreciated that Kamala Das during her life would have given vicarious emancipation to multitudes of women through her writings. Nov 06, Priya sankar rated it really liked it. The stories will carry you around the lanes of Mumbai, Calcutta and Kerala. The first few stories were so so. But most of them are good. Since I read her autobiography before this book, some of the characters resemble her.
I imagined bits of Kamala das in them. In those moments, only the newly sprouted grief in my heart bound me to the world. The words are authentic you feel for her. Food, only the applause of a belch. I hope the community is satisfied now. Their horrible plans have caught up with me at last. I rose like the sun and all heads turned to the east to look at me. That was being awake.
The chatter of my neighbours. I am buried within this body. Sep 23, Johnna rated it really liked it. Jul 11, Nikhil rated it really liked it Shelves: indian-writers , psychedelic. It was an interesting read going through these short stories. While each story had its share of strange, and I do not want to break it down to where it could have originated from - the strangeness!
But it was there.
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