1. “. . . for when women are the advisers, the lords of creation don’t take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do. Then they act upon it, and, if it succeeds, they give the weaker vessel half the credit of it. If it fails, they generously give her the whole.”?
2. Which New Zealand author wrote The Matriarch?
3. It’s matrone in French, matrona in Italian, matriarca in Spanish and kuikui in Maori, what is it in English?
4. Who was the Greek goddess of wisdom, warfare, battle strategy, heroic endeavour, handicrafts and reason.
5. Who topped Forbes’ list of the world’s most powerful women this year?
LOL
(1) I recognize that – it is from little women, Louisa May Alcott
(2) I don’t know
(3) Matron
(4) Athena
(5) Probably not Lady Gaga
1. Louisa May Alcott, in Little Women
2. Witi Ihimera (if that is how you spell it). I thought it was total rubbish and I gave up about a third of the way through.
3. Matron or Matriarch
4. Was that Minerva?
5. I think it would have to be Angela Merkel or Hilary Clinton.
I’ll go with Angela Merkel
1] It sounded familiar, but I couldn’t remember who it was- until I saw other people’s answers.
2] If it is the story about the crime boss Kath Pettingill, I don’t know, but I’ve read it. If it is another book, then I really don’t know.
3] Matron
4] Athena
5] Merkel or Clinton. Or Rouseff of Brazil. Or what about Michelle Obama? Probably Merkel, especially given how cack-handed US foreign policy has been.
1. Pass.. Germaine Greer came to mind
2. Pass.
3. Matron. A position in hospitals that should have never been lost.
4. Diana.. Diana.. Diana ..
I know.. The Huntress.. My first and really only love.. H.M.S. Diana.. a Daring class destroyer. Boy Seaman 936774. 1955. Look up her lines.. A speed of 44knots.. As against NZ’s newest of 28 .. Bwahahaa..
5. cough.. cough.. and the question was ??. cough..
5. Most powerful ??.. Meaning the most influence…
Betty Windsor.. By a long mile.. Whether Forbes believes it or not..
Just an aside..
The West disagrees with child soldiers.. Hypocrites…..
The youngest VC winners have been Boy Seamen..