Comments on: Book Review: Speaking For Myself http://www.joyfuldays.com/speaking-for-myself/ How to find happiness and abundance through personal development. Create a life you love and live on your own terms. Start today to become a better, happier, richer person a week from now. Wed, 08 Sep 2010 06:05:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Daphne Lim http://www.joyfuldays.com/speaking-for-myself/#comment-318 Daphne Lim Sun, 19 Oct 2008 23:56:50 +0000 http://www.joyfuldays.com/?p=754#comment-318 Miss Thrifty, yes she came under a lot of flak for that, as well as for allowing photos of her children to be taken while saying she wanted their privacy to be respected. In the book she describes her mother and grandmother both having to work because their men weren't bringing home enough bacon, and perhaps this fear that there was never enough and the concomitant need to work as a practical necessity is wired into her. I don't know her enough to judge. She may not be consistent all the time, but then again (and I say this with tongue fully in cheek), women tend not to be anyway! ;) Miss Thrifty, yes she came under a lot of flak for that, as well as for allowing photos of her children to be taken while saying she wanted their privacy to be respected. In the book she describes her mother and grandmother both having to work because their men weren’t bringing home enough bacon, and perhaps this fear that there was never enough and the concomitant need to work as a practical necessity is wired into her.

I don’t know her enough to judge. She may not be consistent all the time, but then again (and I say this with tongue fully in cheek), women tend not to be anyway! ;)

]]> By: Miss Thrifty http://www.joyfuldays.com/speaking-for-myself/#comment-317 Miss Thrifty Sun, 19 Oct 2008 22:48:37 +0000 http://www.joyfuldays.com/?p=754#comment-317 Yes, she wasn't the most popular PM's wife! A lot of people objected to the way she used her public position/name to embark on lucrative lecture tours and freeloading missions. It was at odds with her complaints about being forced into the public eye. Yes, she wasn’t the most popular PM’s wife! A lot of people objected to the way she used her public position/name to embark on lucrative lecture tours and freeloading missions. It was at odds with her complaints about being forced into the public eye.

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