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WOWOWOW. How about a daily quote from our beloved intelligent prominent and witty women to encourage us and keep us thinking about how many brilliant women have graced our history (often forgotten)?

The most dangerous thing I have ever done: Age 30 on my way to Peter Bent Brigham by subway to visit my obgyn the train jerked with stops and starts. Those up front screamed each tiime that the car stopped. Finally I dragged myself forward to see what was going on. To my surprise I saw a small child down on the tracks. I asked the driver what he was going to do and, obviously, the answer was “nothing.” Without thinking, I decended , took the child’s hand and found stairs to the surface. The thing that amazes me is that something inside me made me do it. There was no time to think . I have been wondering about that force that sent me down there ever since because I really do not think that if I thought about, I would go down on those tracks.

Has anyone else stopped sending greeting cards? I have not done it in years including not sending Christmas cards, birthday cards, and other. I consider it a huge waste of time to stand in front of those endless displays of greeting cards to get the right one. Do I feel guilty? Not at all! People who know me just know I don’t send cards. Of course, the downside of that is I get very few cards in return, especially not the Christmas annual recap letters that I kind of liked. Oh, well.

Coupons. Clipping coupons. I gave up on clipping coupons years ago. I was never any good at it. Either I would forget to bring them to the store, or I would forget I had them in the store, and, of course, they would usually be expired. Being that coupon clipping is, I assume, primarily a woman’s thing, shouldn’t there be an easier and less time-consuming way to accomplish the same thing? One thing that would make coupon use easier would be if the product manufacturer WOULD PRINT THE EXPIRATION DATE IN REALLY BIG LETTERS/NUMBERS!!! How can we get them to do this?

Even though I live in Minnesota, I love The New Yorker magazine. I read it cover to cover and even feel a bit sad when I am finished because I have to wait for the next week and the next issue. I know the magazine is known for its wonderful cartoons, but has anyone else noticed that ALL, and I do think ALL, of their cartoons depicting office situations have a man (in charge) behind the desk. I don’t think I have ever seen them have a woman behind the desk. Their psychiatrist patient-lying-down cartoons all have men psychiatrists, no women. Is The New Yorker behind the times, or is it not possible to have humor using women in these situations?

I don’t hope to be able to change the world—even a little. However, I would like to change wowowow a tiny bit. Would it be possible to limit the frequency and length of some posts? Some seem to really LOVE to see their words in “print” and tend to dominate discourse (see the Iraq discussion).