Anita's heart was one of a Revolutionary...“For me, the truth has to be absolute. A relative truth is a half-truth and a half-truth is just a half-lie.” - Anita Garibaldi
Category: Wild Wombyn in History
Portraits of Women throughout history that remained connected to their wild enough to speak their Truth to power.
Joan The Fearless
Without Joan of Arc, there may be no France. Both her tongue and wit were as sharp as the sword she later carried.
Josephine’s Compassion is a Call
"Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food." - The Patron Saint of Prostitutes
Frida Endures
Frida Kahlo 1907-1954, 47 yrs "At the end of the day we can endure much more than we think we can." Cyoacán, Mexico Painter. Portraitess. Activist.
Hildegard Claims True Home
Hildegard von Bingen 1098-1179, 81 yrs "We cannot live in a world that is not our own, in a world that is interpreted to us by others. An interpreted world is not a home. Part of the terror is to take back our own listening, to use our own voice, to see our own light." … Continue reading Hildegard Claims True Home
Ida Turns The Light of Truth
“The way to right a wrong is to turn the light of truth upon them.” –Ida B. Wells 1862-1932 Investigative Journalist. Writer. Newspaper Editor. Suffragist. Sociologist. Feminist. Civil Rights Leader/Activist. Teacher. Public Speaker. A Founding Member of the NAACP. Mother.