#deborah cachet

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Madame Putiphar Readalong. Book Two, Chapter XXV:

Just like Merteuil and Valmont conspiring against the couple of innocents they want to seduce, Pompadour and Villepastour meet up to discuss Patrick’s (and by extension Deborah’s) fates

L. Cateret's 1915 Illustration for Les liaisons dangereuses

Pompadour summons Villepastour to “reprimand” him. He declares to be more than happy to receive her sweet punishment. But Pompadour has to immediately cool him off, stressing that, hard to believe as he finds it, she is not into him. (Villepastour is excellent at pr since she thinks she is the exception to confirm the rule)(Pompom is emphatic. She stresses that if it depended on her exclusively, the marques would die in complete abstinence)(she teases since she recieves him -like she does Patrick- during her petit-lever, and while aristocrats recieved many people during their levers and it was meaningless, merely a protocolar thing, I get a sense of her toying with him, showing what he can never have) Since she has mentioned Newton as an example of a celibate man, he claims to not be an expert on the matter, deliberately missing the point she was driving to, to complain about how annoying it is that women now think they can read Newton through what he defines as Voltaire's summaries of his works for the benefit of the ladies. Pompadour seems upset. we get the sense that they’re old “friends” and that they usually tease each other like that. They jokingly hurt eachother, but deep inside they’re both bothered by it.

Borel lets us reconstruct via their dialogue that Pompadour has summoned him via a stern letter, warning him about not harming Patrick. Still, he jokingly (or at least Pompadour ignores him as if it were a joke) asks her for a lettre de cachet. Pomps asks about Patrick, praising him at every opportunity. Villepastour turns her praise into insults (alla Beausteant and Rastignac talking of Delphine at the Opera in Père Goriot) Pompadour realizes he has something against Patrick: “A woman”, replies Villepastour. More 18th c court witticisms ensue, they both insult the one the other is attracted by. There’s -again, ugh- a good line by Villepastour about chastity…. he says he understands the word little, but even so he still understands it more than the virtue that it’s attributed to it. (The french nobles are still the religious and moralistic skeptics)

“Chaste!… Do you understand that word marquis?” “My faith! not very well; however more than virtue which we assign its meaning to.”

(this and all citations translated by @sainteverge )

And now we hop into a Diderotian philosophical dialogue: (nice shakespearean linguistic nihilism too)

“Marquis, believe me, this virtue is but a word.” “Then, madame, if this word designates a virtue which itself is but a word, my poor reason is starting to lose ground; mercy, it’s too much metaphysics!” 

It reminds me -perhaps because I tead it last week-of a moment in the Suite de l’Entretien (the sequel to D’Alembert’s Dream) You all know I love Diderot but this philosophical dialogue/private RPF of his friends comes across as sexist in a very basic way too. maybe he’s being true to who the people depicted were like, I don’t know, but it’s still moderately annoying… He has the woman (mme de l’Epinasse) start a philosophical argument with a man (doctor Bordeu) but as soon as he brings up matters she perceives as pertaining to The Sublime(TM), she claims to be exhausted by the discussion, so the doctor scolds her for tiring so fast of “being a man” and backpedaling to being a woman…. (Diderot is ofc not always sexist which is why i enjoy a lot of his work and life choices, etc) -_- Borel, refreshingly has the man instead of the woman reject the philosophical depth of the conversation to drive back to the point of it.

Anyways, Mme P. marks her territory, Patrick is hers (her protégé) and Villepastour must not harm him. But, he explains, he has to expel him, it’s the law, he killed his wife and therefore has no honour-not so much because he has killed a woman, but because he was found guilty of it. That is Villepastour’s chief concern, we suspect-(the man gets yet another cleverly written line):

“Yes, killed; but kind of how we kill in comedies; since she is the one I am dying for.”

There can be no doubts right now that the Marquis is sure Deborah is in fact who she claims to be. (but ofc this doesn’t matter, since Deborah was alive and in fact present during the trial at Tralee, and nobody payed heed to her testimony, that Patrick hadn’t attempted to murder her after robbing her) Even the performance of Honour Villepastour so adores could be served by his helping Patrick get his sentence pardoned. But of course he wants him out of his way. The law like Sade said is not equal for all, it is a tool of the rich to maintain their power (to prevent power from shifting hands like Vautrin said) here we have a pair of aristocrats completely willing to bend the law to to get what they want. Yes, a pair, because even if Pompadour laughs at the idea of musketeer’s honour (completely contradictory concepts according to her) and tells him that if he acts against Patrick Villepastour will answer with his head, she demands for him to break the law to preserve her favourite (we know Patrick is innocent, she knows it and Villepastour knows it. But this is not relevant, she’d still ask the same if he were guilty) who she says, she might deliver to Villepastour in a few days, or manage his destiny herself….

Patrick is in the hands of Fortune, not a Shakespearian Goddess, but a very tanglible, carnal pair of Aristocrats.

[lesser-known-composers]

Domenico Mazzocchi (1592-1665) - Lagrime amare: La Maddalena ricorre alle lagrime ·

Scherzi Musicali · Nicolas Achten · Deborah Cachet

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Serafino Razzi - O Vergin Santa - Eva Zaïcik · Deborah Cachet · Le Poème...

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Deborah Cachet Soprano - Le Concert Royal de la Nuit

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Mostly Mezzo Mondays: Piau & Mead (x2); Prina; DiDonato; Gens; and much more

Mostly Mezzo Mondays: a recurring (though not weekly) feature where, on Monday nights, I blog a list of the upcoming broadcasts that have caught my eye on World Concert Hall. My interests: baroque vocal music, art song recitals, and a list of favorite singers.

Sandrine Piau and Tim Mead perform arias and duets by Handel in a concert with Le Concert d’Astrée conducted by Emmanuelle Haïm. Tuesday, April 16 on France Musique.*

Holy Week always brings a raft of Bach Passions to the live radio offerings. The proprietor of World Concert Hall cites a record number of listings this year, and singers from my list of favorites are popping up as soloists in these concerts all week long. To narrow my recommendation, though, my pick would be this concert: Bach’s St. John Passion with Les Arts Florissants conducted by William Christie. The vocal soloists (slightly adjusted from the performance by the same ensemble this past Sunday, which is available for catch-up listening on the NPO Radio 4 website) are Reinoud Van Mechelen, Alex Rosen, Emmanuelle de Negri, Lucile Richardot, Anthony Gregory, and Renato Dolcini. Live broadcast Wednesday, April 17 on Dwójka.

This broadcast of Handel’s Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno caught my eye because of the participation of Sonia Prina (in the role of Wisdom). Saturday, April 20 on DR P2 Klassisk. 

I can’t actually say I’m familiar with Judith van Wanroij or Deborah Cachet, but I may try to catch them in this live broadcast of Charpentier and Couperin works in a concert with Les Talens Lyriques at the Actus Humanus Festival (the same venue as the Les Arts Florissants concert mentioned above). Saturday, April 20 on Dwójka. 

As fans of Joyce DiDonato probably already know, her current Clemenza at the Met is up for broadcast on WQXR this Saturday, April 20, following on the heels of the livestream on the Met’s website that I mentioned in an earlier edition of MMM.

Sandrine Piau and Tim Mead perform a second round of arias and duets by Handel in a concert with Le Concert d’Astrée conducted by Emmanuelle Haïm—presumably a repeat of their program from Aix-en-Provence (see the first item in this list). This time they perform in Geneva and the deferred broadcast of their program will be on Sunday, April 21 on the Swiss station RTS Espace 2. 

Véronique Gens and Reinoud van Mechelen lead the cast of Lully’s Armide in a concert performance with Le Concert Spirituel conducted by Hervé Niquet. Deferred broadcast Sunday, April 21 on France Musique.*

Broadcasts marked with an asterisk (*) are on stations known to me to have a history of making concerts available for listening on demand for at least a week after the initial broadcast.

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Scarlatti // O penosa lontananza de Deborah Cachet, Scherzi Musicali & N ...

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Madame Putiphar Groupread. Book Four, Chapter III

𝔊𝔬𝔬𝔡 𝔍𝔞𝔦𝔩𝔢𝔯, 𝔅𝔞𝔡 𝔍𝔞𝔦𝔩𝔢𝔯

“Of truth we know nothing, for truth is in a well.”

-Democritus

Goya, prints number 79 and 80 from Los desastres de la guerra. Murió la Verdad and Sí resucitará? Truth is dead, but her light shines still from the well. More allegories of Truth here .

{ @counterwiddershins + @sainteverge }

Join me while I try to decide what is the Prison Gobernor’s agenda. I think it's pretty clear what Borel seems to be doing with him though, whether he is sincere or not. This chapter adds yet another guise of the Jailer, of which we have already seen so many: the madame, Lady Cockermouth and Chris, Villepastour, etc. This version of the oppressor is kind, soft spoken and gentle, empathetic. But it’s honestly irrelevant, since the result is the same: deprivation of rights ( in fact kind jailers might be even worse) Like a lobster boiled alive, the more naif people might be lulled into a false sense of safety, get used and even come to love their chains. Not Deborah.

We find her now, as she says, crying out of innertia. The gobernor presents himself to her: he doesn't want to be thought of as a jailer, since he loves and cares for all his prisoners, he isn’t even an admirer of Louis XV, a relative of his. (the metaphor is clear, if we believe him, this man is a kind person, he does NOT like the king-but is a noble. Or a bastard, he must have done something to deserve such a job. He is -or seems to be- legitimately trying to make the best of a terrible situation, either out of practicity-after all, a Prince should aim to be loved rather than feared- or genuinelly. It is not unheard of, some jailers are not sadists. But all of this doesn’t change the fact that Deborah has been raped, prostituted, and is currently being incarcerated illegally out of royal caprice)

This quote provides a strong argument for discarding this his genuinelly being a good man with a terrible job, there is a kind of pride or even perverse pleasure here:

"J’éprouve une joie profonde à me voir aimé de gents qui devoient me haïr. Ceci montre qu’il n’est pas de position dans la vie qu’on ne puisse ennoblir et sanctifier."

He is clearly not a Kantian. He does Good because it brings him pleasure (vs. for Good's sake). He makes people who should hate him, love him (and through love, he makes them submit to him) And everyone is happy because rebellion is quite inconvenient, too much effort, too much violence... His second statement almost reeks of Panglossianism. There is NO job that cannot be made noble, even being a jailer, a mercenary, or a torturer… if the people love their executioner, their exploiter, their role is sanctified, because the role (of the oppressor) is performed with love.

[Next is the obligatory Romanticism Bingo moment: claiming the role of providence mentioned]

it’s also interesting how Borel make us feel Deborah’s trauma through her interlocutor’s words, he says he’s interested in her for she is young and beautiful, and immediately has to add he’s just a poor old man with one foot in the grave to reassure her. The old gobernor claims however that the true root of his affection is her nationality. Because his protector was an Irishman: the now Count of Thomond, who is what Patrick could have become if he had played his cards right, aka, an ennobled irishman defending French interests in the Battle of Fontenoy, disputing territory from the Austrian Netherlands. (I have no idea whose position was fairer in this territorial dispute but it seems to be just about geopolitics and strategic control, kicking England out, fortifying France's position, etc. The man seems to have been just defending France's imperial geostrategic interests)

The jailer asks, as a favour (and this could be dangerous, but Deborah chooses to trust him) to be told the causes of her incarceration, since her lettre-de-cachet doesn’t specify them. Deborah outdoes his request, tells him the story of her life. True sympathy develops between the two, as the enigmatic jailer and Deborah are both driven to tears by her story. Deborah is very much in need to unburden herself, and this man is kind and mild mannered.

The man consoles her, as if he were administring a sedative in minute doses. Softly, he asks her to forget. They will play pretend she is not a prisoner. Because, aren’t humans captives anywhere in this world? (this is as you have already heard me say, one of the main themes of the book. Never before expressed so explicitly as now. However the Gobernor isn't at all a mouthpiece for Borel, since he is perverting the premise, using it to instill pasivity in his current victim, and in a way, to minimize the damage of the lettres-de-chachet:

Ce ne sont pas les lettres-de-cachet qui font le plus de prisonniers, ce sont les liens de famille, la pauvreté, les travaux mercenaires, le ménage, la nonchalance, les préjugés. Vous ne sauriez habiter, mylady, un plus vaste et plus romantique manoir, une île plus délicieuse, une mer plus belle sous un ciel plus pur.

I thought the inclusion of the word Romantic was interesting, this is not the literal meaning of the phrase, but it's evocative enough. can fiction, can a romanticism malpractice so to speak, also become a jail of sorts? the fortress is beautiful, the Island too, so why not imagine it as one of the locations of Deborah's favorite novels?

The man even rhetorically transforms prisons into something natural, in his speech, animal made refuges become cells, in a sophistic turn of phrase made to infuriate any rousseaunian:

“L’aigle même n’a-t-il pas son aire? l’ours n’a-t-il pas sa caverne?”

Deborah isn’t fooled by any of this, she asseses his remaks exactly as what they are: rhetorical resources. She gently mocks his sophisms affirming he isn’t far from claiming there are only free men inside the cells. As Walpole, (Deborah and Borel pay tribute to the father of Gothic literature) who jokingly affirmed the need to lock the few remaining sane people in Bedlam to preserve them from the madness of the world, trap the few remaining"sane", release the "mad" since the world is already insane. She cuts to the chase: how long is she condemned to be free in "this Bastille"?

-Perpetualy.

A philosophical reflexion follows, how can men have the hubris to claim to own the remaining time of someone’s life, (and isn’t life potentially shortened by such sentences?) Deborah proposes, once again, suicide as an act of rebellion and pursuit of freedom. No matter what happens, she is still free to end her life, and cut her sentence short. Actual escape, once again, as a pregnant woman who on top of everything is in a remote wilderness surrounded by water, seems impossible for her.

As a palliative, the Governor offers Hope, another weapon in his arsenal: when Putiphar dies, Deborah would eventually be released.

Deborah doesn’t buy it. If Putiphar died anytime soon, she’d return to being a slave (at the Parc-aux-Cerfs) The Governor smiles, like a defeated Sphinx, warmly shakes her hands, and walks away.

[lesser-known-composers]

Domenico Mazzocchi (1592-1665) - Lagrime Amare

SCHERZI MUSICALI — dir. Nicolas Achten

Deborah Cachet, soprano

Lambert Colson, cornetto muto

François Joubert-Caillet, viola bastarda

Eriko Semba, lirone Benoît Vanden Bemden, violone Philippe Grisvard, organ & harpsichord Solmund Nystabakk, theorbo Simon Linné, theorbo* Nicolas Achten, theorbo**

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Brett Kavanaugh Fit In With the Privileged Kids. She Did Not.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/14/sunday-review/brett-kavanaugh-deborah-ramirez-yale.html

Wow.

"During his Senate testimony, Mr. Kavanaugh said that if the incident Ms. Ramirez described had occurred, it would have been 'the talk of campus.' Our reporting suggests that it was."

"At least seven people, including Ms. Ramirez’s mother, heard about the Yale incident long before Mr. Kavanaugh was a federal judge. Two of those people were classmates who learned of it just days after the party occurred"

And there is also another alleged incident of sexual assault: "A classmate, Max Stier, saw Mr. Kavanaugh with his pants down at a different drunken dorm party, where friends pushed his penis into the hand of a female student."

"Hey, so while we're talking about all the ways that #KavanaughLied, let's figure out who paid off his mortgage and credit card debt?"

"You know, because there's still the possibility that person could have business before the Supreme Court. Or maybe already has." Matthew Chapman @fawfulfan

Brett Kavanaugh Fit In With the Privileged Kids. She Did Not.

Deborah Ramirez’s Yale experience says much about the college’s efforts to diversify its student body in the 1980s.

By Robin Pogrebin and Kate Kelly | Published September 14, 2019 | New York Times | Posted September 15, 2019 9:48 AM ET |

Ms. Pogrebin and Ms. Kelly are reporters with The Times and authors of the forthcoming book, “The Education of Brett Kavanaugh: An Investigation.”

Deborah Ramirez had the grades to go to Yale in 1983. But she wasn’t prepared for what she’d find there.

A top student in southwestern Connecticut, she studied hard but socialized little. She was raised Catholic and had a sheltered upbringing. In the summers, she worked at Carvel dishing ice cream, commuting in the $500 car she’d bought with babysitting earnings.

At Yale, she encountered students from more worldly backgrounds. Many were affluent and had attended elite private high schools. They also had experience with drinking and sexual behavior that Ms. Ramirez — who had not intended to be intimate with a man until her wedding night — lacked.

During the winter of her freshman year, a drunken dormitory party unsettled her deeply. She and some classmates had been drinking heavily when, she says, a freshman named Brett Kavanaugh pulled down his pants and thrust his penis at her, prompting her to swat it away and inadvertently touch it. Some of the onlookers, who had been passing around a fake penis earlier in the evening, laughed.

To Ms. Ramirez it wasn’t funny at all. It was the nadir of her first year, when she often felt insufficiently rich, experienced or savvy to mingle with her more privileged classmates.

“I had gone through high school, I’m the good girl, and now, in one evening, it was all ripped away,” she said in an interview earlier this year at her Boulder, Colo., home. By preying upon her in this way, she added, Mr. Kavanaugh and his friends “make it clear I’m not smart.”

Mr. Kavanaugh, now a justice on the Supreme Court, has adamantly denied her claims. Those claims became a flash point during his confirmation process last year, when he was also fighting other sexual misconduct allegations from Christine Blasey Ford, who had attended a Washington-area high school near his.

Ms. Ramirez’s story would seem far less damaging to Mr. Kavanaugh’s reputation than those of Dr. Ford, who claimed that he pinned her to a bed, groped her and tried to remove her clothes while covering her mouth.

But while we found Dr. Ford’s allegations credible during a 10-month investigation, Ms. Ramirez’s story could be more fully corroborated. During his Senate testimony, Mr. Kavanaugh said that if the incident Ms. Ramirez described had occurred, it would have been “the talk of campus.” Our reporting suggests that it was.

At least seven people, including Ms. Ramirez’s mother, heard about the Yale incident long before Mr. Kavanaugh was a federal judge. Two of those people were classmates who learned of it just days after the party occurred, suggesting that it was discussed among students at the time.

We also uncovered a previously unreported story about Mr. Kavanaugh in his freshman year that echoes Ms. Ramirez’s allegation. A classmate, Max Stier, saw Mr. Kavanaugh with his pants down at a different drunken dorm party, where friends pushed his penis into the hand of a female student. Mr. Stier, who runs a nonprofit organization in Washington, notified senators and the F.B.I. about this account, but the F.B.I. did not investigate and Mr. Stier has declined to discuss it publicly. (We corroborated the story with two officials who have communicated with Mr. Stier.)

Mr. Kavanaugh did not speak to us because we could not agree on terms for an interview. But he has denied Dr. Ford’s and Ms. Ramirez’s allegations, and declined to answer our questions about Mr. Stier’s account.

Yale in the 1980s was in the early stages of integrating more minority students into its historically privileged white male population. The college had admitted its first black student in the 1850s, but by Ms. Ramirez’s time there, people of color comprised less than a fifth of the student body. Women, who had been admitted for the first time in 1969, were still relative newcomers.

Mr. Kavanaugh fit the more traditional Yale mold. His father was a trade association executive, his mother a prosecutor and later a judge. They lived in tony Bethesda, Md., and owned a second home on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. As a student at a prominent Jesuit all-boys school, Georgetown Prep, Mr. Kavanaugh was surrounded by the sons of powerful Washington professionals and politicians. He was an avid sports fan and known to attend an annual teenage bacchanal called “Beach Week,” where the hookups and drinking were more important than the sand and swimming.

Ms. Ramirez grew up in a split-level ranch house in working-class Shelton, Conn., perhaps best known for producing the Wiffle ball, and didn’t drink before college. Her father, who is Puerto Rican, rose through the Southern New England Telephone Company, having started as a cable splicer. Her mother, who is French, was a medical technician.

Before coming to Yale, Ms. Ramirez took pride in her parents’ work ethic and enjoyed simple pleasures like swimming in their aboveground pool, taking camping trips and riding behind her father on his snowmobile. She was studious, making valedictorian at her Catholic elementary school and excelling at her Catholic high school, St. Joseph.

She and her parents took out loans to pay for Yale, and she got work-study jobs on campus, serving food in the dining halls and cleaning dorm rooms before class reunions.

She tried to adapt to Yale socially, joining the cheerleading squad her freshman year, sometimes positioned at the pinnacle of the pyramid. But Ms. Ramirez learned quickly that although cheerleading was cool in high school, it didn’t carry the same cachet at Yale. People called her Debbie Cheerleader or Debbie Dining Hall or would start to say “Debbie does … ” playing on the 1978 porn movie “Debbie Does Dallas.” But Ms. Ramirez didn’t understand the reference.

“She was very innocent coming into college,” Liz Swisher, who roomed with Ms. Ramirez for three years at Yale and is now a physician in Seattle, later recalled. “I felt an obligation early in freshman year to protect her.”

There were many more unhappy memories of college. Fellow students made fun of the way she dropped consonants when she spoke, but also ribbed her for not being fluent in Spanish. They mocked her knockoff black-and-red Air Jordans. They even questioned her admission on the merits. “Is it because you’re Puerto Rican?” someone once asked her.

“My mom would have preferred me to go to a smaller college — looking back at it, she was right,” Ms. Ramirez said. At Yale, “they invite you to the game, but they never show you the rules or where the equipment is.”

It wasn’t until she got a call from a reporter and saw her account of Mr. Kavanaugh described as “sexual misconduct” in The New Yorker that Ms. Ramirez understood it as anything more than one of many painful encounters at Yale.

Ms. Ramirez also did not see herself as a victim of ethnic discrimination. The college campuses of the 1980s had yet to be galvanized by the identity and sexual politics that course through today’s cultural debates.

Years after graduating, however, she started volunteering with a nonprofit organization that assists victims of domestic violence — the Safehouse Progressive Alliance for Nonviolence, or SPAN. She became a staff member for a time and continues to serve on its board. Gradually she embraced her Puerto Rican roots.

This awakening caused Ms. Ramirez to distance herself from the past. She fell out of touch with one Yale friend — who had asked Ms. Ramirez to be her daughter’s godmother — after the friend’s husband made fun of a book she was reading on racial identity. The husband, a Yale classmate, was one of the students she remembered being at the dorm party that difficult night.

“If I felt like a person in my life wasn’t going to embrace my journey or would somehow question it,” she said, “I just let them go.”

Mr. Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings were wrenching, as he strained to defend his character after Dr. Ford’s searing testimony. Thousands of miles away, Ms. Ramirez, who was never asked to testify, also found the hearings distressing. Her efforts to backstop her recollections with friends would later be cited as evidence that her memory was unreliable or that she was trying to construct a story rather than confirm one.

Ms. Ramirez’s legal team gave the F.B.I. a list of at least 25 individuals who may have had corroborating evidence. But the bureau — in its supplemental background investigation — interviewed none of them, though we learned many of these potential witnesses tried in vain to reach the F.B.I. on their own.

Two F.B.I. agents interviewed Ms. Ramirez, telling her that they found her “credible.” But the Republican-controlled Senate had imposed strict limits on the investigation. “‘We have to wait to get authorization to do anything else,’” Bill Pittard, one of Ms. Ramirez’s lawyers, recalled the agents saying. “It was almost a little apologetic.”

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, Democrat of Rhode Island and member of the Judiciary Committee, later said, “I would view the Ramirez allegations as not having been even remotely investigated.” Other Democrats agreed.

Ultimately, Senator Charles E. Grassley, Republican of Iowa and chairman of the Judiciary Committee, concluded, “There is no corroboration of the allegations made by Dr. Ford or Ms. Ramirez.” Mr. Kavanaugh was confirmed on Oct. 6, 2018, by a vote of 50-48, the closest vote for a Supreme Court justice in more than 130 years.

Still, Ms. Ramirez came to feel supported by the very Yale community from which she had once felt so alienated. More than 3,000 Yale women signed an open letter commending her “courage in coming forward.” More than 1,500 Yale men issued a similar letter two days later.

She also received a deluge of letters, emails and texts from strangers containing messages like, “We’re with you, we believe you, you are changing the world,” and “Your courage and strength has inspired me. The bravery has been contagious.”

College students wrote about how Ms. Ramirez had helped them find the words to express their own experiences. Medical students wrote about how they were now going to listen differently to victims of sexual violence. Parents wrote about having conversations with their children about how bad behavior can follow them through life. One father told Ms. Ramirez he was talking to his two sons about how their generation is obligated to be better.

Ms. Ramirez saved all of these notes in a decorative box that she keeps in her house, turning to them even now for sustenance. One person sent a poem titled “What Is Justice” that has resonated deeply with her.

“You can’t look at justice as just the confirmation vote,” she said. “There is so much good that came out of it. There is so much more good to come.”

This essay is adapted from the forthcoming book “The Education of Brett Kavanaugh: An Investigation.”

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14 Women Show Off Wrinkles To See A Potent Statement About Aging

Wrinkles. Laugh courses. Crow’s paws. No matter what you call them, the crimps on your look deepen as you age. But whereas numerous people look in the reflect and, with a collective rustle, deplored the excerpt of time that’s left its trace on their faces, others cuddle the changes, and accept the idea that germinating older is an integral — and even beautiful — part of living.

HuffPost photographer Damon Dahlen took portraits of 14 females, aged 52 to 90, who roll their eyes at ageist( and sexist) standards of glamour. Rather than fight the inevitable effects of aging, they accompany the lines on their faces as a road map of “peoples lives”. They are the etchings of many years fully lived — and each and every one of them has been earned.

So why not show them off? Take a look at their dazzling likeness below and read what each female has to say about hugging the attractivenes of every age.

Roz Halweil Sokoloff, 90

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“I’m a person — not an age. The best stuff about my being 90 is that I’m not recognizing also that I’m old. I do everything the method I used to do it. Perhaps I get tired quicker but I haven’t been saved back from doing anything I want to do. I don’t play singles tennis any more. But I do tai chi and yoga, and I swim laps. When it comes to my wrinkles, well, I stand back from the reflect at least two feet and I don’t assure one wrinkle and that’s the truth. I don’t even know that I have wrinkles. I’m proud of my the expected accomplishments and I don’t am worried about the wrinkles. I haven’t done any Botox or any facelifts. That stuffs not important to me.”

Mary Ann Holand, 59

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“When I look in the mirror, I still ascertain the “girls ” that I was and that I still am. I don’t appear 59. I have grandkids now, so I guess that constructs me believe I’m 59. But that’s about it. I adoration the TV show ‘Grace and Frankie.’ I think we need more pictures like that, that depict stunning older persons who hold their own. We have for too long glorified youth instead of beings. We’re all on the same excursion. After my breast cancer diagnosis, I consider each year a endowment. I want to live into my 90 s.”

Julieth Baisden, 62

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“I am happy at this age. To me, my photographs of me examine the same now as years ago. Not much different. I like the style I search. I put on some load but my appearance remains the same. Aging are honoured. Some people freak out when they accompany grey-haired hair or wrinkles. I don’t. I experience young. I feel very young. When I tell people my age, they don’t think it is. I experience that.”

Iris Krasnow, 61

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“I’ve had gray hair since I was in my early 30 s. I learned early on to not get my self-esteem or my gumption of glamour from my exterior but from my heart and my passions and my engaged in life. The happiest parties I know are the most fulfilled. They have a sense of anger and purpose and are surrounded by beings they enjoy. Very rarely do I sounds ‘oh, I’m so happy because I am the same weight I was in high school.’ The message I like to share is don’t count on your reviews since they are change. Discover an inner source of energy and fulfillment that has everything to do with your body and soul and little to do with your exterior. One thought for sure in life is that your exterior is going to change. I believe strongly in find beautiful without the spear. For me, wrinkles are … they are a delineate of “peoples lives”. I have four children. I have a husband of 28 times. I’ve experienced my life.”

Maria Leonard Olsen, 52

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“I tried 50 new happens the year I returned 50. After I rotated 50, I ultimately lived their own lives authentic to me for the first time. Regrettably that also involved rehab and getting a divorce but I detected who I truly am … and I am absolutely comfortable with myself. Lastly at 50. I got my motorcycle license. I hiked the Himalayas and I conjured fund to help build a library for impoverished children placed in Nepal. I learned to horseback trip. I got my first book produced. I ultimately know who the genuine Maria is. I lived the first half century of “peoples lives” trying to please others. But now I’m living for myself. I have a definite detect I’m on the downslope of my life and actually I predict I am and so I want to make it count. Wrinkles are a natural part of aging. When I was young, I detested my dark skin and examining different from my friends and classmates but now I revel in my uniqueness.”

Carole Paris, 83

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“I paint and I like to do faces so whatever success I’ve had with photographs has had to do with the character parties had in their faces. Those faces and those wrinkles and texts tell a life story. You can see the essence of the person or persons by looking at their appearance. I learn faces and I receive a appraise in age. There is life there in those faces … the high-pitcheds and lows of life. You can see that the person has ridden the curves of life, both the ups and the downs. A faceshows the character of a person. I would never think of going a facelift. You face loses life that way.”

Leslie Handler, 56

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“Each new wrinkle tells me that I subsisted and became glad after every defy in my life. When I discover a brand-new one, it doesn’t bother me. After two newborns, my belly bothered me, but my husband said it reminded him that I had given birth to our two children. I think the 50 s are the best of all the decades in so far. You truly come into your own … no more questions about what to do with my life … all the anxieties. You’ve gotten over all that. I had cancer in my 30 s. I’m still here. Complain? I don’t complain.”

Lavada Nahon, 57

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“I am roused about becoming a crone. We look at that negatively here … but in Africa, maidens move up in cachet as they go through menopause. It is all those times that play into your value. In Japanese culture and Asian cultures, elders are adored. I had a friend suppose lately that, as an elder, you don’t step out and away from people, but you take on more responsibility. You are responsible for training and teaching and helping others. The older women in my life were always the role model and they held everything together. I am looking forward to being that person that my mom was to me.”

Deborah Gaines, 55

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“Your vision of attractivenes is chosen when you are quite young. For me, my grandmother was heavy and had wrinkles and grey-headed whisker but she symbolized desire for me. She was 95 when she died. And I still thought of her as the most beautiful person I knew. Now I has definitely reconnected with that suffer. The people who are most important to me find me beautiful because of the adore I radiate and it has nothing to do with wrinkles or what is on my face. Until you have a babe, you worry about your form. But when you have a newborn you think your mas deserves an Academy Award. Being beautiful is about being present to those around you. I’m proud of the delineate of my face because it’s a delineate that pictures a long and joyful journey.”

Anne R ., 59

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“Wrinkles are a reflection of what happens to you as you age — they are part of who you are. Speaking the face wires is how to see a person’s know and resilience. They are a thought of having had to condition numerous tornadoes with house, sidekicks, drive. And for me the wrinkles are to be espoused and celebrated because they appearance you who I truly am inside. Wrinkles are not fatigues but preferably research results of a lifetime of all kinds of emotions.”

Barb Rabin, 67

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“Wrinkles are a natural part of aging. My forehead wrinkles are from are concerned about my teenagers and grandkids and my 95 -year-old mom. My favorite wrinkles are around my sees. They are from smiling and enjoying life and likewise sometimes weeping. Wrinkles to demonstrate that I am still alive and that acquires them absolutely worth it.”

Lisa Hirsch, 66

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“If i didn’t have my wrinkles I wouldn’t be this age. And a lot of people don’t make it to this age. Aging gracefully is — I imagine — something of a advantage. It’s a advantage that you are even here. My spouse is wholly against get undertaking done and he visualizes I’m beautiful and that women should age with grace. I accept that it’s precisely an integrated part of life. I repute women should age naturally and gracefully.”

Barbara Hannah Grufferman, 59

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“I feel good because I exert. And that everything happened after I passed 50. I started wearing sunblock and trying to stay as health and fit as I can. We can seem and feel good as we get older if we take care of ourselves. Sleep, activity and eating well … all of this is important. Since I moved 50, I wanted to get my act together. What does this necessitate? What is aging all about? What should I be doing that is different now than what I was doing before? As I inch my acces toward 60, I’m looking at what adjustments I should stir. My adage is: we can’t see going older, but we can domination how we do it. I espouse wrinkles. I call them my gag line — and they are my life lines. Because they are part of who I am now. I’ve embraced the evolution entirely. At the same hour, I want to make sure I’m doing everything right for myself so that I can age with mercy and vitality and force. The purpose shouldn’t be to look younger. But you want to look the best you are able to at whatever age you are.”

Sandra LaMorgese, 59

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“I is certainly looking forward to turning 60. I still feel like I’m 30. I don’t feel any different than I did at 30. The mirror image is the only thing that’s changing — and that’s in a good way. At first I did not like what I understood when I started aging because it was new. But then I changed my mind about what seductive and beautiful is — and I didn’t thinker. The wrinkles did inconvenience me at first — but once I changed my perspective, they didn’t. I have a 60 -year-old face, which I should. I’m not supposed to look like I’m 25 any more. About 20 years ago, a woman said to me ‘I feel sorry for you because you are so beautiful that when you rotate older and ugly, you won’t be able to handle it.’ I told her, ‘I’m not going to get ugly. I’m just going to age.’We guess aging has to do with being ugly. But it’s not ugly. It’s beautiful.”

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