Western civilization was always marked by melancholy. It started with the first questions about man himself, with his conscience. … Even in Egypt, where we can find one of the roots of Western civilization … we can find there very pessimistic thoughts of scribes asking themselves about the human condition, the aging, the death.
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The great luck nowadays is to have the advantage of … education encouraging personal confidence, self-respect, free expression of needs, refusals, opinions and feelings. With all the surveys shown in women’s magazines, I am lucky not to be depressed yet.
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[Author Isabelle Nazare-Aga] says that women are more preoccupied than men about human relationships, psychological and spiritual well-being. They consult a lot.…
Shyness affects more than half of the population of some Western countries. … My belief is that [it is] better for women to move on as they can if they want to make it one day!
–Posted July 27 by Ruby Bird on blackfeminism.org
