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AWiSE - Association for Women In Science and Engineering - Aims to advance the participation of girls and women in the sciences, in engineering and in the technologies, in all areas and at all levels. Includes jobs and career resources.
The Bridge Project - Registered charity which provides education, support and guidance for women in the north of England. Training courses, counselling, childcare services and online charity shop.
Full-Time Mothers - Aims to promote a social environment that enables women to raise their children themselves. Key issues, latest research, book reviews, job vacancies, local groups and newsletter.
Ladies Circle in Scotland - Scottish arm of the Ladies Circle. Diary of events and details of fundraising activities.
London International Club - Women's club aiming to promote friendship and understanding between nations. Details of forthcoming events, downloadable brochure and links to London-based websites.
Soroptimist International of Great Britain and Ireland - Worldwide organisation for women in management and professions working through service projects to advance human rights and the status of women. Consists of 404 clubs in 31 countries, from Anguilla to Zimbabwe. Includes information about federation structure, projects and membership.
Women Connect - Provides women's organisations in England with online resources, and fosters networking. Includes discussion board and information for policy-makers and researchers.
The Women's Sports Foundation - Committed to improving and promoting opportunities for women and girls in sport. Key initiatives, research, products and services, how to get involved and how to donate.
Women's National Commission - Official, independent, advisory body giving the views of women to the Government. Publications and information on consultations, conferences, public appointments and issues confronting women for the future.
Gwent Business Women's Network - Business network for female entrepreneurs and business managers throughout South East Wales. Information about events, training, membership and newsletter.
National Federation of Women's Institutes - Details of constitution with current campaigns and courses. Member's ezine, corporate and media information and the WI shop.
Microsyster - Feminist collective providing computer services to women's groups and women working in the voluntary and charity sector in London.
Women in London - Directory of London based women's groups and other groups working for women in London. Also includes a list of forthcoming events, jobs and volunteering, publications, press releases and campaigns.
Womankind - Registered charity that is dedicated to raising the status of women via direct involvement in the community. News, events, publications and online donation.
Women in Prison - Provides education, training and practical support to women who are, or have been, in prison. Background information, case studies and printable donation form.
Fawcett - Campaigns pro-actively for equality for women. Latest events and publications and details of how to get involved.
National Association of Ladies Circles - For women aged 18-45, who wish to extend their social life, travel and get involved in fundraising. History, news, events and joining details.
Women's Aid - Registered charity offering support for women who suffer domestic violence. Helpline number, campaigns, news, events and job vacancies.
Women's Environmental Network - Campaigns on issues that link women, health and the environment with information on menstrual products, cosmetics, cleaning products, furnishings, and breast cancer distribution. Projects include social and food production groups for women and women orientated initiatives.
Rights of Women - Provides women with information on their legal rights. Confidential advice, training, policy guidance and published resources.
It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune. -- Woody Allen We do not remember days; we remember moments. -- Anonymous Ambition is not a vice of little people. -- Michel de Montaigne Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself. -- Dean Inge Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement. -- Cousin Woodman Organisations "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now comple Organisations "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living. -- Helen Rowland Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance. -- Oscar Wilde I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens. -- E. B. White Organisations "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth. These days they more often leave that way. -- David Deckert I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence. -- Doug MacLeod Organisations If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder. -- Pope John Paul I "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount. -- Clare Boothe Luce In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled. -- Paul Eldridge The best defense is a good offense. -- Anonymous Organisations "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses. -- Anon. Organisations Ninety percent of everything is crap. -- Theodore Sturgeon After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post. -- Philip Streifer, Superintendent I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear. -- Woody Allen Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. -- Aldous Huxley Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy. -- Groucho Marx Organisations Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine. Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality. -- Hermann Weyl Organisations Who, being loved, is poor? -- Oscar Wilde Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready. -- Henry David Thoreau "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you. -- John-Paul Sartre Organisations In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you. -- Mortimer J. Adler Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting. - Karl Wallenda CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the disg Organisations "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the custom of shaving. -- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Whatever you are, be a good one. -- Abraham Lincoln Organisations "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) He who has lost honor can lose nothing more. -- Publilius Syrus If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam. -- Johnny Carson Organisations "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life. - Frank Zappa Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. -- Roger Babson Organisations It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. -- Seneca "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. - Sir Winston Churchill Organisations Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. -- Roger Babson It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching. -- St. Francis of Assisi If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance. -- Al Bernstein "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers. -- Socrates Organisations Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's chara "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Organisations Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages as much as 20 years. -- Anonymous People need loving the most when they deserve it the least. -- John Harrigan Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full of grac If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out? - Will Rogers Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone. -- Anthony Burgess Organisations The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce intelligence. -- Philo Vance Politics have no relation to morals. -- Niccolo Machiavelli Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian. -- H. L. Mencken Organisations Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. -- Anonymous "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. -- Crow "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Organisations Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done. -- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth. -- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart. - e e cummings Organisations Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has come. -- Victor Hugo Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much. -- Anonymous Organisations "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is plurality, death is uniformity. -- Octavio Paz "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Organisations
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