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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:25am on 2004-09-19

From the Quotation of the day mailing list, 2004-07-19:

"I shall venture the assertion, that, until women assume the place in society which good sense and good feeling alike assign to them, human improvement must advance but feebly.... Men will ever rise or fall to the level of the other sex.... Let them not imagine that they know aught of the delights which intercourse with the other sex can give, until they have felt the sympathy of mind with mind, and heart with heart, until they bring into that intercourse every affection, every talent, every confidence, every refinement, every respect. Until power is annihilated on one side, fear and obedience on the other, and both restored to their birthright -- equality." -- Frances Wright, quoted in Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States, p122.
(submitted to the mailing list by Chris Doherty)

Also, a reminder: today is International Talk Like A Pirate Day.

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posted by [identity profile] bkleber.livejournal.com at 05:24am on 2004-09-19
I love it. My brother's birthday (9/11) is converted into a national day of mourning; my father's birthday (9/19) is talk like a pirate day. SUCH a weird world...
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It could be wois

posted by [identity profile] anniemal.livejournal.com at 09:42am on 2004-09-19
My mother's mother was born Christmas Eve, and she's Catolic. Talk about tough berthdays... your day entirely eclipsed by some messiah ya believe in.

I always try to send two presents.

I didn't get off easy, either. No one has any urge to celebrate January 4th. They're tired from Christmas and New Years stuff, out of dough. If one throws a party, It will probably snow. And I've moved my birthday to the 2nd Sunday in June. It can work. Although I don't celebrate that one either. I get the phone call twice a year. Mom is a lousy singer, but I love it.
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Re: It could be wois

posted by [identity profile] bkleber.livejournal.com at 02:30pm on 2004-09-19
my birthday is Dec. 20th. I'm Jewish, so it's not so bad--intersecting with Channukah isn't a major thing. But for the 6 years I was in college, it meant that I had finals every birthday, which really sucked. My girlfriend's brother is born dec. 16th and they do the whole Christmas thing, so they have a house rule: The tree doesn't go up until after the 16th. It works out well.
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Ow

posted by [identity profile] anniemal.livejournal.com at 03:26pm on 2004-09-19
Dang. Winter birthdays suck. So move it. Really. No finals in June. And your girfriend's brother gets to share his with Ludwig von Beethoven, Margaret Mead Jane Austen, and Arthur C. Clarke. Definitely wait a day for specialness. Then he'll only have to share with Arthur Fiedler and the anniversary of flight. Two lesser weevils.
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I ought to move mine...

posted by [identity profile] realinterrobang.livejournal.com at 04:58pm on 2004-09-19
I was born on 13 February, and if one more person gives me cinnamon hearts, chocolates, or a big bouquet of red roses for my birthday, I do believe I shall have to find an automatic weapon and a high place. It's not nice to have a birthday so close to HersheyHallmarkDeBeers Day.

On the other hand, I like having my birthday on the 13th, simply because so many people are triskadecaphobic, and also because every so often, it falls on a Friday. :D So that's partially why I don't celebrate it in summer or whatever.
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Re: I ought to move mine...

posted by [identity profile] anniemal.livejournal.com at 06:13pm on 2004-09-19
Got my ears pierced Fri. 7/13, when I was 13. Have had good luck with them.
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posted by [identity profile] unix-vicky.livejournal.com at 01:40am on 2004-09-20
I share your joy of having a birthday on the 13th. And the fact that mine is in October seems to help make it that much spookier. :-)
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Re: Spooky

posted by [identity profile] anniemal.livejournal.com at 07:09am on 2004-09-20
Hallowe'en stuff is out in the stores. Only 4/3's of a month early. Bought S_C a couple of orange things. I loathe the colour, but he's got a guy kind of fascination with it. So it's a good time for shopping for him. The more fluorescent, the merrier. We may actually get around to pumpkins this year, but I doubt it. Politics are the spooky thing this year.

But happy Birthday early. In case I forget it as thoroughly as I forgot S_C's. We're not good at holidays. We just string he Christmas lights and let them live there.

Our anniversary is the 15th of October because there was a Hunter's Moon that day that year.

Have a spooky birthday. I always found 2/13 spooky enough, too. Who knows what's going to happen on the morrow?
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posted by [identity profile] thespian.livejournal.com at 03:01am on 2004-09-24
very odd. I'm dating a Chris Doherty...but I don't think he could have submitted this.
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