see at forty

"A person who does not see at forty the same wonder and beauty in the world

 around that she saw at ten is probably 'wasted.' "

# 12 : The Faces Project

"If you can rely on someone who is going to love you no matter what you do, I think that is pretty empowering." 

Teri Johnson, mother of US gymnast Shawn Johnson

# 7 : The Faces Project

"The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance."

Benjamin Franklin

Y is for Yalow, Rosalyn S. Yalow

"The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you're learning you're not old."

Rosalyn S. Yalow

600,000 girls go missing in India every year- aborted before they are born; killed at childbirth; abandoned in infancy, allowed to die of mal-nourishment or lack of timely medical care.

As a part of A-Z Challenge, the blog will host a photograph of a woman who survived, along with a quote by a famous (or not so famous) woman. 

W is for Winfrey, Oprah Winfrey

"Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not."

Oprah Winfrey

600,000 girls go missing in India every year- aborted before they are born; killed at childbirth; abandoned in infancy, allowed to die of mal-nourishment or lack of timely medical care.

As a part of A-Z Challenge, the blog will host a photograph of a woman who survived, along with a quote by a famous (or not so famous) woman. 

Q is for Quindlen, Anna Quindlen

"The truth about your own life is not always easy to accept, and sometimes hasn't even occurred to you."

Anna Quindlen

600,000 girls go missing in India every year- aborted before they are born; killed at childbirth; abandoned in infancy, allowed to die of mal-nourishment or lack of timely medical care.

As a part of A-Z Challenge, the blog will host a photograph of a woman who survived, along with a quote by a famous (or not so famous) woman. 

E for Evans, Mary Ann Evans

"What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?"
Mary Ann Evans/ George Elliot

600,000 girls go missing in India every year- aborted before they are born; killed at childbirth; abandoned in infancy, allowed to die of mal-nourishment or lack of timely medical care.

As a part of A-Z Challenge, the blog will host a photograph of a woman who survived, along with a quote by a famous (or not so famous) woman. 

It was.....

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way."
Charles Dickens

... that gift should be....

"I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity."
~ Eleanor Roosevelt

V is for Veiled Beauty

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November 11, 2010
Beed Pinarpura, Rajastan

L is for Lock

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November 12, 2010
Jantar Mantar, Jaipur

Temple at the Base of a Tree

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November 12, 2010
Juna Shahar, Jaipur, Rajastan

Full Up

Back from School

No Monkey Business this

Plumeria blossoms

It takes an expert to guage a Broom

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November 12, 2010
Juna Shahar, Jaipur, Rajastan

International Woman's Day

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November 11, 2010
Beed Pinarpura, Rajastan

It was she that invented the factory system of production

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November 11, 2010

Beed Pinarpura, Rajastan, India

Dancing Women

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November 11, 2010
Beed Pinarpura, Rajastan