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May 03, 2005
Cool stuff: Superwoman edition
Uli Derickson was the Ashley Smith of her decade, but she didn't just handle a single violent criminal who broke into her home, she verbally managed a gang of terrorists aboard an airplane in 1985, protecting over 150 passengers. She died of cancer at age 60 a few months ago.An appreciation of turn-of-the-century efficiency expert Lillian Gilbreth (the book and movie "Cheaper by the Dozen" were memoirs by several of her children), with some lessons for modern insecure moms:
She saw that true cooperation required that power be delegated and responsibilities rotated. No, it didn't always conduce to household efficiency. (Toddlers don't dust very briskly, and she had even them doing their bit, batting at the furniture legs.) But Lillian Gilbreth's real goal was to build group harmony and to promote adaptability and a spirit of industry. It was a collaborative enterprise designed to encourage productive "self-assertion . . . the most important urge of all"�not just for dads and kids, but for mothers, too.A reminiscence of being a woman in the airforce in the 1970s.
I nominate Sherry Fowler for superwoman status for teaching us all how to throw great parties:
Part I
Part II
Judith | 05/03/05 at 09:00 PM | Categories: - Amazing things
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