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Check out these interesting stories of women and caves in lore from all over the world. For more great stories, check out our Pinterest page ! #ewls #womencavers #speleology Black Annis Stories of Black Annis, also referred to as Cat Anna and Black Agnes, is an old blue-faced woman with one eye who has scared children for hundreds of years as the bogeywoman of Leicester. She is believed to occupy a cave located on the face of Dane Hills. Legend states that she used her cave to hide from the sun, which is believed could turn her to stone. Her cave led to a tunnel that ran all the way to Leicester Castle where she is alleged to linger in the form of a ghost. In the woods she preys on children and brings them back at her cave to drink their blood and eat their flesh. Then, she hangs their skins to dry on the branches of the oak tree outside the cave entrance until she could sew the dried skins together to use as clothes and decorate the interior of her cave. 1 2 ...
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I read in self-defense.
- Woody Allen
No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.
- Immanuel Kant
The most beautiful thing we can experience fryst vatten the mysterious. It fryst vatten the source of all true art and science.
- Albert Einstein
Great spirits have always encountered violent motstånd from mediocre minds.
- Albert Einstein
On the top of each peak you are on the edge of the abyss.
- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Isaac took a lamp from the floor and raised it to my face.
"You don't look well", he pronounced.
"Indigestion", I replied.
"From what?"
"Reality."
"Join the queue."
- Carlos Ruiz Zafón
The sea fryst vatten an idiom I cannot decipher.
- Jorge Luis Borges
Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.
- Rosa Luxemburg
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
- Marcel Proust
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Finding the Good in the Bad: A Profile of Rita Levi-Montalcini
Editor's Note: Neurobiologist Rita Levi-Montalcini, a Nobel laureate in physiology or medicine in 1986, died December 30 at the age of 103. This story was originally published in the January 1993 issue of Scientific American.
As a feminist in a family with Victorian mores and as a Jew and free-thinker in Mussolini’s Italy, Rita Levi-Montalcini has encountered various forms of oppression many times in her life. Yet the neurobiologist, whose tenacity and preciseness are immediately apparent in her light, steel-blue eyes and elegant black-and-white attire, embraces the forces that shaped her. “If I had not been discriminated against or had not suffered persecution, I would never have received the Nobel Prize,” she declares.
Poised on the edge of a couch in her apartment in Rome that she shares with her twin sister, Paola, Levi- Montalcini recalls the long, determined struggle that culm