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Every time I read Three Guineas I find something new.  The style is so seemingly personal, so hesitating, verbose, repetitive that it is easy to ignore it.  Virginia Woolf wrote as many as 8 versions even of a book review.  We should not be fooled.  She surely was looking for the perfect style and voice to say what she intended.  I understand her to say that women can do all the things men do without the same effects if they commit to poverty, chastity, derision, and freedom from unreal loyalties.  We all know women who have done these things, even in part, and the results are certainly suggestive.  Studies have shown that there is less corruption, both in the private and the public sectors, where women are in charge.  I have watched the recent political campaigns here in Guatemala.  A native of Antigua, a woman with a degree in architecture and degrees in urbanism from Europe has united 6 political parties behind her and has conducted a different sort of campaign, not competing with the male candidates' gifts to the public nor their elaborate entertainments.  There will be a run-off, but she appears to have won already.  Will she be able to stop the blatant graft and actually do something for the communities in the township?  We will see.  At least there will be a few extra millions to work with because they haven't gone into her own bank account. 

     From all evidence there has been war since we gave our loyalties to male gods.  As women acquire power, many men resort to their only real superiority, physical force.  I should think it natural that we see the same thing on a national or international level.

     Bryn Mawr vs. the poor, combustible college?  Well, she certainly is expensive.  But there is no doubt that she puts the women in "important"  places where women have not previously been.  I do love her and give her half of my very poor income.  She took or is taking every one of us on the roster seriously and has thus made us recognizable in the whole world, even in Guatemala