11-05-94 Women of Achievement and Herstory

ERRATA on the 10/30/94 WOA regarding abuse of women - the shorthand

of computerland became tooooo short.  The first paragraph should be

amended to read (as noted in caps): 

    "When violence against women is reduced to numbers, they are

staggering.  One women in three WHO IS RAPED will be raped by a

stranger.  One out of EVERY two women WHO ARE SEXUALLY ABUSED

will be sexually abused before the age of 18, usually by a family

member or a close friend of the family."

    BTW, I was at a meeting today in which FBI statistics were

discussed: 50% of ALL WOMEN will be abused at one time or another in

their lives, this, however, does not mean that the majority of men are

abusers.  They are not.  The abusers often abuse a series of women

and children because the police, the courts, and society do not stop

them. 

    Recently in my adopted home city, a woman fought back and shot

her abuser of many years.  The police and the prosecutor had refused

to give her (and her several small children) any help for years and

years, but immediately slapped HER in jail and prosecuted HER to the

limit of the law. The jury set her free. 

    YES, there is abuse of men by women, men by men and women by

women, the young by the older, or the old by the younger but not -

according to the FBI - in any numbers or severity like men abusing

women.

Anniversaries -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

B. 11-05-1807, Eliza Emily Chappell Porter, spent a lifetime organizing

schools in several states. During the Civil War gathered and distributed

supplies to Union soldiers and hospitals.  She joined with Mary Ann

Bickerdyke in nursing soldiers in Gen. Sherman's march through

Georgia.

B. 11-05-1834, Anna Harriette Crawford Leonowens, English writer and

as a teacher, the inspiration for _Anna and the King of Siam_ and _The

King and I_.  

B. 11-05-1850, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, highly sucessful writer of popular

novels and poetry who became the center of literary life in New York

in the pre-World War I years.  Her reputation was made by her _Poems

of Passion_ (1883) (which weren't).

B. 11-05-1857, Ida Minerva Tarbell, recognized as one of the major

journalists of her day, exposed the Standard Oil trust in _History of

Standard Oil Company_,  renowned biographer, especially of Lincoln. 

B. 11-05-1913, Vivien Leigh, Anglo-American actor who won the Academy

Awards for her protrayal of Scarlet in _Gone With the Wind_ (1939) and

Blanche in _A Streetcar Named Desire_ (1951). Tragically suffered from

manic depression.

B. 11-05-1917, Jacqueline Auriol, French pilot who often vied with

Jacqueline Cochran as the most accomplished and fastest woman pilot in

the world. 

Quote du jour -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

    "To sin by silence when we should protest makes cowards out of

men."

    --Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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