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# Van Badham

Vanessa "Van" Badham (born 1974) is an Australian writer and activist. A playwright and novelist, she writes dramas and comedies. She is a regular columnist for the Guardian Australia website.

## Quotes

* I wonder whether our frameworks are more the hangups of our pre-liberal parents than we realise. In the patriarchal, restricted and desperately sexist world that came before, one can imagine that a woman without children may have been a object of concerned pity – because the old gendered denial of career paths, educational opportunities and independent incomes meant that beyond partnership and parenthood there weren't so many other fulfilling experiences for women on offer. Our biological destiny isn't to reproduce – remember? It's just to die, and find ways to meaningfully occupy our time before we do.
** "Facebook’s endless back-to-school photos spark complex feelings for childfree people like me – but sadness isn’t one of them", The Guardian (9 February 2024).
# Romanesco proverbs

Romanesco is an Italian dialect spoken in parts of Rome.

## L

* A i busêdar un si cred la varité.
** English equivalent: A liar is not believed when he tells the truth.
** "I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you."
** Friedrich Nietzsche
** von Düringsfeld, Ida; von Reinsberg-Düringsfeld, Otto (1875). "65" (in German). Sprichwörter der germanishcen und romanischen Sprachen Vergleichend. II. p. 36.

## See also

* Bolognese proverbs
* Corsican proverbs
* Emilian proverbs
* Italian proverbs
* Lombard proverbs
* Milanese proverbs
* Neapolitan proverbs
* Northern Italian proverbs
* Piedmontese proverbs
* Romagnol proverbs
* Sardinian proverbs
* Sicilian proverbs
* Tristine proverbs ‎
* Tuscan proverbs
* Venetian Proverbs
# Romani people

The Romani, colloquially known as the Roma, are an ethnic group of Indo-Aryan origin who traditionally lived a nomadic, itinerant lifestyle. Linguistic and genetic evidence suggests that the Romani originated in the Indian subcontinent, in particular the region of present-day Rajasthan. Their subsequent westward migration, possibly in waves, is now believed to have occurred c. 1000 AD. Their original name is from the Sanskrit word डोम, ḍoma and means a member of the Dom caste of travelling musicians and dancers. The Roma population moved west into the Ghaznavid Empire and later into the Byzantine Empire. The Roma are thought to have arrived in Europe around the 13th to 14th century. Although they are widely dispersed, their most concentrated populations are located in Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania, Spain, and Turkey.
In the English language, Romani people have long been known by the exonym Gypsies or Gipsies (corrupted from Egyptian), which most Roma consider a racial slur.

## Quotes

* A quiet, pilfering, unprotected race.
** John Clare, "The Gipsy Camp" (1841), quoted in Carol Rumens, "Poems of the week: The Gipsy Camp", The Guardian (10 February 2009)
* We gypsies need only air and love.
** Victor Hugo, Notre-Dame de Paris (1831), translated by Isabel F. Hapgood (1888), Bk. 7, Ch. 8
* His captain’s heart, Which in the scuffles of great fights hath burst The buckles on his breast, reneges all temper And is become the bellows and the fan To cool a gipsy’s lust.
** Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, I, 1
** See: Claude Rawson, Swift and Others (Cambridge University Press, 2015), Ch. 7: Cooling to a Gypsy’s Lust
# Winnifred Selby

Winnifred Kyei Selby is a young Ghanaian social entrepreneur and the president of the EPF Educational Empowerment Initiative based in Kumasi, Ashanti Region of Ghana. She co-founded the Ghana Bamboo Bike Initiative with Bernice Dapaah at the age of 15. And At age 17, she established another business, the Afrocentric Bamboo Initiative. In 2018, she became the first Ghanaian to be inducted into the Royal Institute of Singapore.

## Quotes

* You have to believe so strongly in what you are doing, to be so dedicated to it that you are willing to make the necessary sacrifices.
** "Fearless & Flexible: Winnifred Selby’s African Socio-Ecological Business", The Way Women Work
* Draw inspiration and courage from you own dreams and passions and never slack on them.
** “Motivation Must come From Within Not from others” Co Founder GhanaBamboo Bikes, Winnifred Selby Reveals success story., Duchess Magazine
* "There were so many friends who laughed when they heard about the bamboo bike idea. Some people will definitely discourage you, but one thing I've realised in life is that you have to be focused. People never understand your journey because it is not theirs to understand."
# Winnifred Harper Cooley

Winnifred Harper Cooley (October 2, 1874 – October 20, 1967) was an American author and lecturer.

## Quotes

* The finest achievement of the new woman has been personal liberty. This is the foundation of civilization; and as long as any one class is watched suspiciously, even fondly guarded, and protected, so long will that class not only be weak, and treacherous, individually, but parasitic, and a collective danger to the community. Who has not heard wives commended for wheedling their husbands out of money, or joked [about] because they are hopelessly extravagant? As long as caprice and scheming are considered feminine virtues, as long as man is the only wage-earner, doling out sums of money, or scattering lavishly, so long will women be degraded, even if they are perfectly contented, and men are willing to labor to keep them in idleness! Although individual women from pre-historic times have accomplished much, as a class they have been set aside to minister to men's comfort. But when once the higher has been tried, civilization repudiates the lower. Men have come to see that no advance can be made with one half-humanity set apart merely for the functions of sex; that children are quite liable to inherit from the mother, and should have opportunities to inherit the accumulated ability and culture and character that is produced only by intellectual and civil activity. The world has tried to move with men for dynamos, and "clinging" women impeding every step of progress, in arts, science, industry, professions, they have been a thousand years behind men because forced into seclusion. They have been over-sexed. They have naturally not been impressed with their duties to society, in its myriad needs, or with their own value as individuals. The new woman, in the sense of the best woman, the flower of all the womanhood of past ages, has come to stay — if civilization is to endure. The sufferings of the past have but strengthened her, maternity has deepened her, education is broadening her — and she now knows that she must perfect herself if she would perfect the race, and leave her imprint upon immortality, through her offspring or her works.
** The New Womanhood (New York, 1904) 31f.

## See also

* Feminism in the United States

## External links

* Online text of The New Womanhood
* The New Womanhood Online text at Internet Archive
# Winnipeg

Winnipeg is the capital and largest city of Manitoba, Canada. It is located near the longitudinal centre of North America, at the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers.
The Winnipeg area was a trading centre for Aboriginal peoples prior to the arrival of Europeans. The first fort was built there in 1738 by French traders. A settlement was later founded by the Selkirk settlers in 1812, the nucleus of which was incorporated as the City of Winnipeg in 1873. Winnipeg is the seventh-largest municipality in Canada, and is the primary municipality of the Winnipeg Capital Region.

## Quotes

* I was amazed how people would wear T-shirts at the windy corner of Portage and Main where the wind comes whistling off the plains. Seeing people wear T-shirts made me feel like a big pansy, I was in a big parka, and you'd see girls in little dresses going down the street. I couldn't understand it.
** Craig Ferguson from The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson commenting on his time spent in Winnipeg in 2004 filming the movie Niagara Motel., Winnipeg Sun, April 2, 2006. Hart Berger reporting.
* If you kids can't keep your heads to yourself, I'm gonna turn this car around, and there'll be no Cape Canaveral for anybody!! [Nelson smacks the back of his head] THAT'S IT! BACK TO WINNIPEG!!
** A father warning his children who are playing around in the back of the car. The Simpsons 3F17 - "Bart On The Road".
* Every salvage mission that's been to this system has disappeared. Even those old pirates out at Winnipeg Drift say it's cursed.
** The character Harper making a remark in EPISODE 112: The Mathematics of Tears in the TV series Andromeda.
* I could, remember when we were in Winnipeg? Six hours, I couldn’t go.
** Paul talking to Jamie about their dog who has to hold it in for hours while trapped in their apartment. "An Angel For Murray" (406) Mad About You.
* With the thermometer at 30 below zero and the wind behind him, a man walking on Main Street in Winnipeg knows which side of him is which.
** Stephen Leacock Source: My Discovery of the West, 1937.
* You've got to remember that west of Winnipeg the ridings the Liberals hold are dominated by people who are either recent Asian immigrants or recent migrants from eastern Canada: people who live in ghettos and who are not integrated into western Canadian society.
** Stephen Harper, The Report newsmagazine, January 22, 2001.
# Wen Yumei

Wen Yumei (闻玉梅; Wén Yùméi; born 16 January 1934) is a virologist and microbiologist, and also the current director of the Institute of Pathogenic Microorganisms of Fudan University.

## Quotes

* Momentum of the Wuhan virus epidemic outbreak may decline in 20 days (since 26 January 2020) based on the current prevention and control measures of pneumonia caused by the novel coronavirus.
** Wen Yumei (2020) cited in "Expert believes China's control measures on Wuhan virus will take effect in 20 days" on The Star Online, 27 January 2020.
# Wendy Bowman (activist)

Wendy Bowman (c. 1934 – 26 July 2023) was an Australian farmer and environmentalist in New South Wales who successfully campaigned to prevent Yancoal from developing coal mining in the Hunter Valley. In recognition of her efforts, she was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2017.

## Quotes

* "why hang on when most of these coal mines are operating at a loss"
** [Interview] Wendy Bowman - an extraordinary activist. 10th Nov 2015, 1millionwomen, ARA HUNT, Retrieved: 17, November 2023.
* I don't believe that this unbelievable greed for money in a hurry is worth destroying the land and the water for generations to come.
* Too much money never does make anyone good.
* There is a lot of pollution that is happening that affect our environment and our animals.
** Australian activist Wendy Bowman wins Goldman environmental prize – video. Mon 24 Apr 2017 05.00 BST David Fanner, THE GUARDIAN, Retrieved: 17, November 2023.
# Wendelin Van Draanen

Wendelin Van Draanen (born January 6, 1965, Chicago, Illinois) is an American author of children's books.

## Quotes

* "Yeah, right. I know what's really going on: Heather's hired you to kill me, hasn't she?" "Sammy!" "Why else would you catapult me through the air and feed me to a man-eating cot?"
** Sammy Keyes to Marissa Mackenzie, Sammy Keyes and the Curse of Mustache Mary (2000)

### Flipped (2001)

* My heart stopped. It just stopped beating. And for the first time in my life, I had that feeling. You know, like the world is moving all around you, all beneath you, all inside you, and you're floating. Floating in midair. And the only thing keeping you from drifting away is the other person's eyes. They're connected to yours by some invisible physical force, and they hold you fast while the rest of the world swirls and twirls and falls completely away.
* What did a kiss feel like, anyway? Somehow I knew it wouldn't be like the one I got from Mom or Dad at bedtime. The same species, maybe, but a radically different beast, to be sure. Like a wolf and a whippet—only science would put them on the same tree.
* I asked you to conquer your fear, but all you did was give in to it. If you were in love with her, that would be one thing. Love is something to be afraid of, but this, this is embarrassing. So she talks too much, so she's too enthused about every little thing, so what? Get in, get your question answered, and get out. Stand up to her, for cryin' out loud!”
* “Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss….” He turned to me. “But every once in a while you find someone who's iridescent, and when you do, nothing will ever compare.”
* ...something can be so much more than the parts it took to make it, and why people need things around them that lift them above their lives and make them feel the miracle of living.
* I'd never looked at our house, or even our side of the street, and said, Oh! I wish we lived in the new development—those houses are so much newer, so much better! This is where I'd grown up. This was my home.
* “There's nothing like a head-strong woman to make you happy to be alive.”
* “It's easy to look back and see it, and it's easy to give the advice, but the sad fact is, most people don't look beneath the surface until it's too late.”
* I told about the whole being greater than the sum of its parts. “It's that way with people, too,” he said, “only with people it's sometimes that the whole is less than the sum of the parts.”
# Wen-Ying Tsai

Wen-Ying Tsai (October 13, 1928 – January 2, 2013) was an American pioneer cybernetic sculptor and kinetic artist best known for creating sculptures using electric motors, stainless steel rods, stroboscopic light, and audio feedback control.

## Quotes about Wen-Ying Tsai

* There can be no doubt that Tsai's phenomena (whether they be works of art in the strict sense, or whether they be fantastic artifices) are extremely important. They show what promises and dangers may be in here in a "play," if it is proposed by a great artist. Because, even if Tsai's phenomena be considered artifices, there can be no doubt that Tsai is a great artist. Not because what he does is pleasant, or because he proposes a play, or because he represents the spirit of our times, but because he reveals to us, through artifice or works of art, the concrete experience of a future full of promise or abysmal danger.
** Vilem Flusser, Aspects and Prospects of Tsai's Work, Art International, March 1974
* As far as the sensory experience of the spectator goes, the most outstanding American kinetic artist is unquestionably the Chinese-born Wen-Ying Tsai. His pieces, which are perfect on the technological level, serve the primary purpose of giving a complete visual experience to the spectator, whose sound solicitations provoke a choreographic, chromatic and rhythmic response in the ‘cybernetic sculptures’. [...]
    György Kepes has commented enthusiastically on the ‘magic rhythms emanating from this swaying, dancing steel trembling with life’, and he has also noted the sense of ‘an instant fellowship, a spontaneous celebration’ which is re-created in their presence. As he concludes: ‘Rhythm is friendship and in Tsai’s work there is friendship of light, sound and our own heart-beats.’
    If this appraisal testifies to the success with which Tsai affects the sensory and emotional responses of the spectator, we must not neglect the fact that he is also addressing himself to reason and the scientific element in his audience. In effect, the observer can enter an almost mathematical relationship with these works, and sharpen his perceptual powers through the exact assessment of the various aesthetic parameters of vibration, sound, colour, wave movement, etc.
   * Frank Popper, Art--Action and Participation, New York University Press, 1975, p. 214
* Tsai's Multi-kinetics were dynamically integrated multiple constructions, employing thirty-two kinetic units, each of which contains a configuration of multi-colored gyroscopic forms. With these elements he created an active environmental field that could, apparently, be infinitely extended. Each motorized unit was a self-sufficient entity, and when it was combined with other similar units produced a large-scale kinetic work that joined visual intensity with mechanical power. By controlling the time sequence of each unit in skillful compositions, Tsai used engineering principles to achieve aesthetic ends.
** Sam Hunter, The Cybernetic Sculpture of Tsai Wen-Ying, exhibition catalogue, National Museum of History, Taipei, 1989, p. 66-67
# Wendell Willkie

Wendell Lewis Willkie (born Lewis Wendell Willkie; February 18, 1892 – October 8, 1944) was an American lawyer, corporate executive, and the 1940 Republican candidate for president.

## Quotes

* The constitution does not provide for first and second class citizens.
** An American Programme (1944), ch. 2
* Freedom is an indivisible word. If we want to enjoy it, and fight for it, we must be prepared to extend it to everyone, whether they are rich or poor, whether they agree with us or not, no matter what their race or the colour of their skin.
** One World (1943), ch. 13

### Misattributed

* A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.
** He was actually quoting Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., during an America's Town Meeting of the Air broadcast, at The Town Hall in New York City, (January 6, 1938)

## Quotes about Wendell Willkie

* Muriel Rukeyser called her life of Wendell Willkie "a story and a song."
** Adrienne Rich Arts of the Possible (2001)
# South Africa: The Peasant's Revolt

South Africa: The Peasant's Revolt is a non-fiction novel by Govan Mbeki, a South African politician, military commander, Communist leader who served as the Secretary of Umkhonto we Sizwe. The book is part of a tradition of engaged writing about social and political unrest that takes place contemporaneously with that unrest.

## Quotes

* If Africans had Chiefs,it was because all human societies have had them at one stage or another. But when a people have developed to a stage which discards chietainship, when their social development contradicts the need for such an institution, then to force it on them is not liberation but enslavement.
** Page 47
* The least that one may expect from eating raw dog’s meat, covered with soot so as to give the impression that it has been grilled, is severe constipation,
** Page 33-35
* a hybrid of direct and indirect rule
** Govan speaking on Bantu authorities system. Page 38 - 42
* coincided with the swelling popular opposition to the Bunga or Council system
** Page 38
* That a special extra allocation of arable land be made to each chief and headman in stabilized or reclaimed areas as a consideration for the additional responsibility and dues devolving to them.
** Page 75
* privileged class of peasantry
** Page 109
* desirable to eliminate lawyers altogether from the machinery of law administration in the reserves
** Page 100
* On the other hand, the peasant believes that by taking advantage of available legal processes, he
delays the evil day when the government will have subdued him alto- gether.’
** Page 100
* though the whip has remained in the hand of the White government, it has been the Chiefs, the new jockeys riding the reserve horse, who have applied the spurs. he Chiefs are now well in the saddle
** Page 109
* The people do not want tribal authorities…. They prefer the government of the time before the tribal authorities. The irst system of government prevented bloodshed. Now through the system of tribal authorities too much blood is shed.
** Page 118-120
* took a large peasant army with him to the thick forests
** Page 119-120
* This cancer in the heart of tribal justice was one of the main reasons for the breakdown of the whole tribal structure, and for the subsequent development of a new system during the Pondo revolt
** Page 119-120
* came on foot and on horseback to chosen spots on the mountains and ridges. his is how the movement became known as “Intaba” (the Mountain), when it was not referred to as “Ikongo” (Congress)
** Page 120

## External links

* Academia Edu
* Brill
* Amazon
* Goodreads
# Souli

Souli (Greek: Σούλι) is a municipality in Epirus, northwestern Greece. It became renowned in early 19th century for his inhabitants, the Souliotes an autonomous militant community who resisted against the Ali Pasha and participated in the Greek War of Independence. It was evacuated in 1803 after Souliotes were defeated. Various Greek authors and Western travellers (like Lord Byron of early 19th century wrote about Souli and Souliotes.

## Quotes

* In northwestern Greece there is the village of Souli or Kakosouli, consisting of one big village, called Kakosouli, and of other smaller around, which are Kiafa, Navarikos, Samoniva, Tzagari, Koukouli, Paliochori, Aloupochori, Romanates and others. The area of these villages was inhabited by warrior Greeks [Γραικοί, in the text], who held a 18 years war against all Albania, which [Albania] was led by the tireless leader (Satrap) Ali Pasha from Tepelen, and finally they dispersed by a treaty to Corfu and other places, and now [Souli] is deserted. (Source: Papacharissis Athanasios, complete edition of the "Geography of Albania and Epirus" by Kosmas Thesprotos and Athanasios Psalidas. Epirotic Studies Society, 2nd edition, Ioannina 1964. p. 62. In Greek.)
* The Suliotes are villainous Romans & speak little Illyric. (Source: Lord Byron to John Hobhouse, Nov. 2, 1811, p. 55)
* "The Suliotes were not Greeks but Albanian Christians. They always used the Albanian language at home; but being borderers, all the men and many of the women could speak Greek. Most of the places at Suli and in the neighbourhood had two names, one Greek and the other Albanian." (William Martin Leake, Researches in Greece, σελ. 414: )
# Soumya Swaminathan

Soumya Swaminathan Yadav (born 2 May 1959) is an Indian pediatrician and clinical scientist known for her research on tuberculosis and HIV. Since March 2019, Swaminathan has served as the Chief Scientist at the World Health Organization (WHO). Previously, from October 2017 to March 2019, she was the Deputy Director General of Programmes (DDP) at the World Health Organization.

## Quotes

* Latest update to @WHO #COVID19 treatment guidelines on ivermectin. Only to be used in clinical trials, evidence for benefit is inconclusive
** 31 March 2021
* Safety and efficacy are important when using any drug for a new indication. WHO recommends against use of 'ivermectin' for COVID-19 except within clinical trials
** 10 May 2021

## About

* your misleading tweet on May 10, 2021, against the use of Ivermectin had the effect of the State of Tamil Nadu withdrawing Ivermectin from the protocol on May 11, 2021, just a day after the Tamil Nadu government had indicated the same for the treatment of COVID-19 patients
** 10 June 2021 by India Bar Association
# Sound Sultan

Sound Sultan (born Olanrewaju Abdul-Ganiu Fasasi; November 27, 1976 – July 11, 2021) was a Nigerian rapper, singer, songwriter, actor, comedian, and recording artist.

## Quotes

* Age is nothing but a number. It is how one ‘rocks’ one’s age that matters.
** I was in my twenties when I had my first kiss –Sound Sultan. 11 October 2020, Punch Newspaper.
* A lot of songs will do justice to how a lot of people are feeling, and it is good for the time regardless of the situation.
** INTERVIEW: Why young Nigerian singers focus on lewd, raunchy songs – Sound Sultan. 23 May 2020, Premium Times.
# Tommy Lasorda

Thomas Charles Lasorda (born 22 September 1927 in Norristown, Pennsylvania – January 7, 2021) was a Major League baseball player and manager. In 1999 he marked his 50th year of involvement, in one capacity or another, with the Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers organization, the longest tenure of any individual in the Dodgers baseball organization.

## Quotes

* Manny Mota and Vic Davalillo have 100 years between them. The average age of our bench is deceased.
** As quoted in Scholastic Coach (Vol. 48; 1978)
* I knew something was up when he couldn't go to his right. He said he was living his fantasy, and I said it was my fantasy to get his [rear] off the field.
** Obituary, LA Times, 2011-07-07
** Describing how he caught "Great Imposter" Barry Bremen in a Mets uniform shagging balls in the outfield before the 1986 All-Star Game at the Houston Astrodome.