An Unreasonable Woman (autobiography by Diane Wilson)

[Dover]

This is a remarkable and inspiring story...a real page-turner. If you think you are not smart enough, rich enough or "man" enough to take on Goliath, then this should change your mind. We all need to be UNREASONABLE!





http://www.buzzflash.com/premiums/05/11/pre05169.html

This is a most remarkable, authentic account of how a mother with five children who fished for shrimp became an advocate against the toxic pollution that was pouring into the bay off of Seadrift, Texas. It is her book and her voice, as raspy, dreamy and determined as any recent southern novelist that weaves together a true account that you won't put down.

Diane Wilson is not an "educated woman" in the traditional sense. She comes from a long line of shrimpers and just happens to be an "unreasonable woman" who found out that multi-billion dollar corporations (especially a large Taiwanese firm that came to the U.S. because the Taiwanese people had kicked them out) were polluting her home waters with cancerous causing chemicals -- and she raised hell. She is partial to a quote by George Bernard Shaw: "A reasonable woman adapts to the world. An unreasonable woman makes the world adapt to her." Wilson advises, "So, I'm telling all you women out there to be unreasonable."

Diane Wilson is co-founder of Code Pink and continues to lead the fight for social justice.

[MuseRider]

1. I bought one of her buttons

at Camp Casey. I loved it, a big Unreasonable Woman button that cracked my husband up. I ended up giving it to Walking Mary who admired it and there were no more left. I did not see her book there, sounds like one I need to read.

[Dover]

2. I think the book just hit the stands. And it is a great read.

Diane talks in her own native slang and it is earthy and eloquent, not to mention suspenseful.
And I'll bet there are more buttons like that one available through Code Pink and other activist organizations...maybe T-shirts too. I really like it too! "UnReason-able" is a man's word for a strong woman.

[MuseRider]

4. Oh it was wonderful!

It was big and bold and my husband just cracked up when I bought it. I wore it everywhere those few days but in the end I thought that Walking Mary deserved it more, what an amazing woman. I have not seen it on the Code Pink site but will check again since this book came out. I did not meet Diane although I am pretty certain I saw her there. I did buy Stop The Next War Now and Medea signed it for me. I can't wait to read this book. Thanks.

[Dover]

5. A lovely gesture. We should all have at least one button on hand

to pin on another woman...there are some significant modern day heroines out there, and in the most unlikely places! And they would all encourage us to discover our own inner heroine. Goddesses awaken!

[MuseRider]

6. Wonderful idea!

I guess I never thought about buying more than one, D'OH! I am currently working with some very Unreasonable Women in our state group. I would be so happy to present each of them with a button because they are UNREASONABLE!

Goddesses awaken indeed. Thank you.

[Dover]

..

[Dover]

8. Hey look! The publisher is giving the buttons away FREE!!

http://www.chelseagreen.com/2005/items/unreasonablewoman/FreeButton

Free Unreasonable Woman Buttons
E-mail us at [e-mail] to get your free Unreasonable Woman button.

[MuseRider]

9. Ha Ha

I was just coming back to send you that link! YES! Isn't it lovely? I never thought in my whole life a button would be made that would describe me so well, it sounds like I am not alone in that thought.

[Dover]

11. LOL!

This pin's for YOU!

[texpatriot2004]

3. Great woman. I saw Amy Goodman interview her. nm

[Dover]

7. Diane's recent arrest

http://www.codepink4peace.org/article.php?list=type&type=98

[MuseRider]

10. I did not realize

that she was still in jail. Damn. Going back to read.

[Dover]

12. This is some info about that from her publisher and an address

where folks can write to her. The sentence is for 120 days.

http://www.chelseagreen.com/2005/items/unreasonablewoman/fromjail

[MuseRider]

13. Thanks

I started to read that and got side tracked. I appreciate that.