January 1, 2001
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The
old pickup truck — loaded with mattresses, plastic bags of clothing, and a few sacks of groceries — chugged to a halt in front of the Instituto, a shelter for battered women in downtown Montevideo, Uruguay.
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translator with the United Nations for about three decades, Nadia Niedzielska has worked in New York City as well as in several countries in Europe and Africa.
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When my husband found himself out of work, he asked me to help him launch a new business in metallurgy.
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As a child, when I was playing the piano or the violin, I didn't think of myself as a girl.
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I didn't enter a design career with a burning passion, but rather from the need of supporting myself after my husband passed on — at a time when job opportunities for women were very limited.
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For me, womanhood stands for strength.
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On the whole, when it comes to founding a religion or to holding leading positions in religion, women are generally not considered suitable.
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Christian Science already had a small following in Jakarta, during the Dutch colonial occupation of Indonesia, which was before the Second World War.
For
many years, the cover of the Christian Science Sentinel pictured a lady with a lamp, bearing the words of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:
