Day 33 - Education
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dotintheskyCurrently reading the memoirs of two astonishing women.
One of them is Carolina Maria de Jesus, a paper picker from one of São Paulo’s favelas whose diary, Dumping Room, was discovered by a journalist and became a phenomenon in 1961 – turning her into the biggest Brazilian publishing sensation of her time.
The other is Michelle Obama’s memoir, Becoming, which is also a publishing sensation if I’m not mistaken.
Both books about women who placed high value on education and achieved things beyond their imagination. Both books about women who constantly sought their own strength when faced with life’s challenges.
One of them is Carolina Maria de Jesus, a paper picker from one of São Paulo’s favelas whose diary, Dumping Room, was discovered by a journalist and became a phenomenon in 1961 – turning her into the biggest Brazilian publishing sensation of her time.
The other is Michelle Obama’s memoir, Becoming, which is also a publishing sensation if I’m not mistaken.
Both books about women who placed high value on education and achieved things beyond their imagination. Both books about women who constantly sought their own strength when faced with life’s challenges.
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on 2020-02-03 06:27 pm (UTC)I had never heard of Dumping Room—sounds fascinating!
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on 2020-02-04 01:15 pm (UTC)She kept her diary and had some ambition of one day showing it to someone, getting it published, but it sounds very much like a dream of hers. Her reality is extreme poverty and trials one day after the other.