Daybreak Woman

A woman's remarkable life provides a new perspective on a century of turbulent change.

These 366 daily affirmations and meditations extend support and wisdom to women who have survived childhood sexual abuse. These 366 daily affirmations and meditations extend support and wisdom to women who have survived childhood sexual abuse. With understanding, compassion, and strength, the author addresses issues such as intimacy, fear, play, sharing secrets, and anger. She also shares her personal knowledge of sexual abuse to illustrate that we can not only survive, but thrive.

A riveting memoir that works its magic like a slow-acting drug, revealing the story of Jim Morrison’s first love, a long-lost friendship, and the man who existed before the Doors. In the spring of 1965, Bill Cosgrave was smuggled across the border into the United States after receiving an irresistible invitation from his captivating friend Mary Werbelow. When he made it to her apartment in Los Angeles, Mary introduced Bill to her boyfriend, Jim Morrison. The two young men quickly bonded. When Jim and Mary’s relationship faltered, Jim headed for Venice beach with his notebook. Bill and Jim spent endless days together, enjoying the aimlessness of their youth and the freedom of the times, fuelled by Jim's unlimited supply of dope. Jim’s writing would morph into iconic hit songs, rocketing him to international fame as the hypnotic lead singer of the Doors. Beautiful Mary would set off on her own journey. After years of futile searching, Bill finally tracks down the woman he had secretly loved. He’s dying to know where her life has taken her and stunned by what he discovers.

When morning light breaks through the window, what pleasant words will whisper in your ear? An anthology collection of historical and urban fantasy. You'll find tales of ghosts, beasts, assassins, even a lonely crab. Not all end happy, but they are bound together by the promise of one word: beginning.

This work explains itself and is given to the world because it is needed. Tired of the obtuseness of Church and State; indignant at the injustice of both towards woman; at the wrongs inflicted upon one-half of humanity by the other half in the name of religion; finding appeal and argument alike met by the assertion that God designed the subjection of woman, and yet that her position had been higher under Christianity than ever before: Continually hearing these statements, and knowing them to be false, I refuted them in a slight resume of the subject at the annual convention of the National Woman Suffrage Association, Washington, D.C., 1878. A wish to see that speech in print, having been expressed, it was allowed to appear in The National Citizen, a woman suffrage paper I then edited, and shortly afterwards in "The History of Woman Suffrage," of which I was also an editor. The kindly reception given both in the United States and Europe to that meager chapter of forty pages confirmed my purpose of a fuller presentation of the subject in book form, and it now appears, the result of twenty years investigation, in a volume of over five hundred and fifty pages. Matilda Electa Joslyn Gage (1826-1898) was a 19th-century women's suffragist, a Native American rights activist, an abolitionist, a freethinker, and a prolific author, who was "born with a hatred of oppression."

"It will be essentially a woman's paper, one that will deal with the many phases of the "Woman's Question" in its legal and social aspects," wrote Kate Sheppard in the first issue of The White Ribbon, July 1985. The writings of the women who won the vote in New Zealand would fill several volumes, as the pen was their major weapon. In the pages of first The Prohibitionist and later the entirely woman-owned and managed papers Daybreak and The White Ribbon, they debated ideas and issues, influenced the opinions of a huge body of women all over the country, networked and campaigned. The agenda included the vote, the economic independence of married women, the right to divorce, the custody of children being vested in both parents, the equal right of girls to a decent education and of women to training and jobs in the professions, the improvement of women's health and vitality, reform in women's dress, the need fo a payment to mothers and old age pensions, prison reform, peace and international arbitration. The editor has selected over ninety articles by sixteen women: Kate Sheppard figures strongly, but here too are Nary Muller, Lily Kirk, Stella Allan, Marion Hatton, Lucy Smith, Ada Wells, Margaret Sievwright, Christina Henderson, Jessie Mackay, Sarah Saunders Page, Amey Daldy, Alice Burn, Louisa Blake, Wilhelmina Sherriff Bain and Jennie Lovell Smith.