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Article: A bird's eye view.(status of women in today's society)
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- International Peace Update
- Article date:
- June 22, 2006
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At the 2005 WILPF congress in San Francisco a question was put to the group: Who is the world's most dangerous woman?
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When I was five it was me. In bold defiance of my parents' absolute moral authority I crayoned a little flower underneath the kitchen table. Since I was never brave enough to confess I came to doubt my right to the title of "World's Most Dangerous Woman".
Recently, I turned sixty (like the UN) and against all odds that "most dangerous woman" makes herself known to me in unexpected ways. The face of a small grandchild with unlimited potential or a friend struggling with cancer speaking out against an unjust ...