Frances Bell’s Blog

http://www.knowandnetwork.org/francesbell/weblog/222.html

I just received this fascinating comment on my blog post at Emerge, scroll down to read all of Cristina da Costa’s comment.

“Just a quick note about bearded women:

In Portugal we usually use the expression Thick Bearded Women to refer to women who are educated, hard-working, courageous and sharp in their decisions and actions. In other words, someone you don’t really want to mess up with, but that you kind of look up to; Sophisticated, independent women. ”

What a wonderful concept - I shall aspire to be thick bearded.  I think Anne probably is, here is her story