It’s no crime to be poor. But persistent poverty
and oppression causes despair and hopelessness.

The United Nations Childrens Fund (unicef.org)
The State of the World’s Children 2007 (unicef.org) (pdf)

“Poverty demoralizes. A man in debt is so far a slave… In
failing circumstances, no man can be relied on to keep his integrity.
Quotation from Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Conduct of Life

The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not,
as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a
set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.
Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied, but written off as trash.
Quotation from John Berger, In Keeping a Rendezvous

Some people have the greatest relationship with their mother.
Other people don’t. I’m embarrassed by some of the things I
did to my parents as a teenager. Nobody’s perfect. We got
along better as adults. My mother died last year, and I miss her.

The Mother of Mother’s Day: Anna Jarvis (Mother’sDayCelebration.com)

“Mothers are not the nameless, faceless stereotypes
who appear once a year on a greeting card with their
virtues set to prose, but women who have been dealt
a hand for life and play each card one at a time the
best way they know how. No mother is all good or all
bad, all laughing or all serious, all loving or all angry.
Ambivalence rushes through their veins.”
Quotation by Erma Bombeck,
Motherhood, the Second Oldest Profession

HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY.

Internet advertising is growing over 20% a year. As a result,
newspaper sales are falling. What are people going to put on
the bottom of their bird cages? How are we going to potty train
puppies? Shall we smack them on the nose with an iPod nano?

“[Newspapers] give us the bald, sordid, disgusting facts of life. They
chronicle, with degrading avidity, the sins of the second-rate, and
with the conscientiousness of the illiterate give us accurate and prosaic
details of the doings of people of absolutely no interest whatsoever.”
Quotation from Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist

“Gossip is news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress.”
Quotation by Liz Smith in her newspaper column, American Way

Lack of knowledge is only the second leading
cause of pregnancy. Sexual intercourse is the
leading cause. In case you didn’t know that.

“Some couples seem to get pregnant simply by talking about it.”
The Mayo Clinic

Planned Parenthood (PlannedParenthood.org)
National Organization for Women (NOW.org)
Can Lesbians Get Pregnant? (About.com)
How to Care for a Newborn (How Stuff Works)

“Babies are beautiful, wonderful, exciting, enchanting, extraordinary
little creatures—who grow up into ordinary folk like us.
Quotation from Doris Dyson

I had to ride in the front seat. Even then,
my parents had to stop the car so I could
get out. Closing my eyes made it even worse.

Chum: To lure with bait. Origin unknown.
Chum: Intimate friend or companion. Informal.

The Science of Motion Sickness (Science Daily)

“The daughter who is her father’s indulged “little princess”
may spend the rest of her life stamping her foot when
she doesn’t get her way, or pulling away when a love
affair hits rough waters, or becoming a fair-weather
friend who detaches when a chum asks too much of her.”
Quotation from Victoria Secunda, Women and Their Fathers

Size matters. Radius rather than length has the greater
effect on flow. When in doubt, “Go with the flow.”

Poiseuille’s Law (Harvard.edu)

“Men’s desire for a larger penis continues to be experienced later
in life, in spite of achievements or other experiences that one
would expect to have put “manhood” into broader perspective.”
Quotation from UCLA Study, Does Size Matter? (pdf)

“I love fools’ experiments. I am always making them.”
Quotation by Charles Darwin

Never destroy the imagination of another,
for in doing so, you destroy your own.

Women and Gendercide (Christian Science Monitor)
Case Study: “Honour” Killings and Blood Feuds (Gendercide Watch)
“The Whore Lived Like a German” (Der Spiegel)
A Detroit Family Kept a Painful Secret (The Detroit News)

“A wife is property that one acquires by contract,
she is transferable, because possession of her requires title;
in fact, woman is, so to speak, only man’s appendage;
consequently, slice, cut, clip her, you have all rights to her.”
Quotation from Honoré De Balzac, Meditation Number XII, Canel

“About the alleged condition of the property.
Does it have to be intact?”
Quotation from Margaret Forster, Georgy Girl

This completes Hell Week. I hope you enjoyed this series.

Learn How to Kiss (Wikihow.com)
What is the Kiss of Death? (Wikipedia.org)

“The kiss of Judas, I feel the lips on my cheek
The kiss of Judas, hold me once again
unkept promises, the night awaits, the act of confidence.”
Song by Stratovarious, The Kiss Of Judas

I’m damned if I do and damned if I don’t.
It’s my own private hell,
but I’ve decorated it to my satisfaction.

What is a Minced Oath? (phrases.org.uk)

“Mary Mary quite contrary,
How does your garden grow?
With silver bells and cockle shells
And pretty maids all in a row.”
An old Nursery Rhyme (rhymes.org.uk)

Don’t forget tomorrow is A Fashion Show from Hell at 1:00pm SLT at Northland sim.

It’s hard for me to feel anger today, because
every year I send my mother flowers and a fruit
basket for May Day, and she’s not here anymore.

Anger Management: What Are You So Angry About? (Mayo Clinic)
If God Smites, Why Can’t We? (Beliefnet.com)

“Not with wrath do we kill, but with laughter.
Come, let us kill the spirit of gravity!”
Quotation from Friedrich Nietzsche,
Sämtliche Werke: Kritische Studienausgabe

“…Where sits our sulky, sullen dame,
Gathering her brows like gathering storm,
Nursing her wrath to keep it warm.”
Poem by Robert Burns, Tam o’ Shanter