Taking charge
MY 99-year-old grandmother was a Bernardos child, raised in an institution. Now, two husbands and a productive life later, she’s back in one.
Nikki Gemmell
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The man in the mirror
WHAT women want is uplifting, visionary, adult politics.
And so say all of us
“AS cold as a mother-in-law’s kiss.” “She looks like a broom in a fit.” “A face like a bagful of bums.”
A hard day’s night
IMAGINE that walloping feeling of jetlag, day after day. Being zippily, speedily, glarily awake, then dragged down into sleep.
A fine vintage
“For me, there are only two kinds of women – goddesses and doormats.”
Time out!
I KNOW in my bones that the ignored child is the more self-sufficient child, possibly the more successful child.
Don’t take it lying down
HOW will history record the media’s performance during this period of national fractiousness, tetchiness, affront? Courageous, perhaps?
Mind your language
PITHY put-downs can be insulting, but also deliciously funny and spot-on.
Adults in the sin bin
THE scene: a weekend soccer pitch, Australian suburbia. Two teams of primary school kids and a dad on the sidelines, letting rip with a foul-mouthed tirade at the ref.
Lifting our game
JUST put on your big girl’s pants!”
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