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Dame E. Charles, former prime minister of the British Commonwealth state of Dominica (1980-95), recalled struggling with preconceptions about gender during her term...
...discussion, moderated by Senior CNN Correspondent Judy Woodruff, included the present or former leaders of Canada, Lithuania, Bermuda, Dominica, Iceland, Poland, Nicaragua and Turkey...
...must be full of fire to do what the people require to make their lives better," said Charles, the former prime minister of Dominica...
Vally then went to the front of the room and shook hands with the women there, including the former prime ministers of Dominica and of the Netherlands Antilles...
...hate but loss: "My mother died at the moment I was born, and so for my whole life there was nothing standing between myself and eternity; at my back was always a bleak, black wind." The narrator and title figure is Xuela Claudette Richardson, 70, a native of Dominica, by ancestry a mix of Carib, African and Scot, by emotional makeup surely part Kincaid. Since she has no mother (her father is dutiful but distant; in any case men are minor planets in the author's cosmology), she reinvents herself--as did Kincaid--and makes her way in the world...