Katya > Recent Status Updates

Showing 1-30 of 1,976
Katya
Katya is on page 121 of 376 of De Olhos Abertos
"Trancada a parafusos" (bolted shut) é agora uma coisa que se diz? E bebé Jesus (baby Jesus)?Parecem-me cá dois curto-circuitos no programa de tradução... e alguém que anda distraído.
— Nov 03, 2026 10:58AM 1 comment
De Olhos Abertos

Katya
Katya is on page 50 of 256 of An Unexpected Life: A Memoir
I remember women students being called up onstage for a rehearsal, and when the first five or six were Black women, a white male professor called out, "Shouldn't there be some women onstage?"
— Nov 02, 2026 12:54AM Add a comment
An Unexpected Life: A Memoir

Katya
Katya is on page 121 of 376 of De Olhos Abertos
Em 1813-14, Géricault pintou um quadro intitulado "Vinte e Quatro Cavalos Vistos Por Trás". Há três filas de oito (mais um vigésimo quinto que desobedientemente se virou para nos encarar), como que a dizer: «Vede, os cus dos cavalos podem ser tão pictoricamente interessantes como o rosto de uma deusa — tudo depende da execução».
— Nov 01, 2026 09:13AM 2 comments
De Olhos Abertos

Katya
Katya is on page 50 of 256 of An Unexpected Life: A Memoir
[Florynce Kennedy] and a white friend and colleague of hers had applied to Columbia University Law School at the same time. Both had been denied entry because in those days there was a 5 percent quota for women, which had already been reached. Flo charged race discrimination and was admitted, but her white friend was not. Flo always said it was at that moment that she became a feminist.
— Oct 29, 2026 01:55AM Add a comment
An Unexpected Life: A Memoir

Katya
Katya is on page 82 of 376 of De Olhos Abertos
Courbet foi um grande pintor, mas também um grande número publicitário. Foi um pioneiro da autopromoção; vendeu fotografias dos seus quadros para ajudar a difundir a sua fama; divulgava notas de imprensa quando uma das suas pinturas era vendida por muito dinheiro; e imaginou o primeiro centro de exposição permanente dedicado a um único artista — ele próprio.
— Oct 28, 2026 01:15AM Add a comment
De Olhos Abertos

Katya
Katya is on page 130 of 352 of Meet the Beatles: A Cultural History of the Band That Shook Youth, Gender, and the World
As observers noted then -and sometimes lamented- the Beatles had no machismo; they didn't flaunt their male sexuality, unlike "Elvis the Pelvis," who was too phallic and groin-centered to be a gender revolutionary. The Beatles had the advantage -though no one described it as such- of being oblivious of the blues tradition in a Liverpool musical scene grounded in skiffle, the music hall, rockabilly, and country music.
— Oct 27, 2026 01:55AM Add a comment
Meet the Beatles: A Cultural History of the Band That Shook Youth, Gender, and the World

Katya
Katya is on page 79 of 376 of De Olhos Abertos
Quando estava às portas da morte, aos 65 anos, Delacroix lamentou o facto de ainda ter quarenta anos de trabalho dentro de si. Para a posteridade, exprimiu por diversas vezes o desejo esperançoso de poder vir a obter autorização para regressar dentro de cem anos e descobrir o que pensavam dele nessa altura.
— Oct 24, 2026 07:09AM Add a comment
De Olhos Abertos

Katya
Katya is on page 50 of 256 of An Unexpected Life: A Memoir
In my generation, we were asked by the Smith Vocational Office how many words we could type a minute, a question that was never asked of male students at Harvard or Princeton.[...]As one of my classmates said, “I didn’t have a job, I had ajobette.” We weren’t trying to change the world to fit women, and neither was Smith in those days. We were trying to change women to fit the world.
— Oct 23, 2026 12:53AM Add a comment
An Unexpected Life: A Memoir

Katya
Katya is on page 65 of 376 of De Olhos Abertos
Flaubert acreditava que [.]as grandes pinturas não exigiam quaisquer palavras de explicação. Braque[.] q a situação ideal seria alcançada quando nada fosse dito diante de uma pintura. Mas estamos muito longe de atingir esse estado. Continuamos a ser criaturas incorrigivelmente verbais q gostam de explicar coisas, formar opiniões, discutir.[.] é raro q uma pintura nos atordoe ou nos interpele a ponto de nos silenciar.
— Oct 22, 2026 11:19AM Add a comment
De Olhos Abertos

Katya
Katya is on page 123 of 352 of Meet the Beatles: A Cultural History of the Band That Shook Youth, Gender, and the World
"I'm sure this will be difficult for people hundreds of years from now to comprehend... but for a time in the late 1960s, a lot of people really believed that some kind of revolution was imminent, and that the music let you feel what it was going to be like"[...]Without that music - and more important, the records that delivered it - the sixties would obviously have been very different.
— Oct 21, 2026 08:55AM Add a comment
Meet the Beatles: A Cultural History of the Band That Shook Youth, Gender, and the World

Katya
Katya is on page 40 of 256 of An Unexpected Life: A Memoir
(.)my father’s summer dance pavilion was a stop for the big dance bands of the 1930s and ’40s, both white and Black, as they toured the country. I remember such names as Cab Calloway, Count Basie, Chick Webb, and Joe Venuti and His Blue Six. Since there were no restaurants for miles around, my mother cooked for the band members, and there were often musicians around our table.
— Oct 19, 2026 12:52PM Add a comment
An Unexpected Life: A Memoir

Katya
Katya is on page 40 of 256 of An Unexpected Life: A Memoir
I wrote to my Smith classmates in an alumni newsletter a few decades after graduating, “I’m quite broke, not at all who I thought I would be—and consciously happy.”
— Oct 15, 2026 12:11PM Add a comment
An Unexpected Life: A Memoir

Katya
Katya is on page 38 of 256 of An Unexpected Life: A Memoir
The experience I brought to college was one of not going to school, an atypical amalgam of a childhood indiscriminately bookish, a show-business adolescence spent dancing in variety shows, second-place finishes in beauty contests that might provide a scholarship, and occasional work as a magician’s assistant.
— Oct 13, 2026 02:07PM Add a comment
An Unexpected Life: A Memoir

Katya
Katya is on page 29 of 256 of Do Prazer de Odiar e Outros Ensaios
A popularidade dos escritores mais bem-sucedidos opera no sentido de nos repelir pelo falatório e espalhafato em torno deles,pela repetição perpétua dos seus nomes e pelo número de admiradores ignorantes e indiscriminados que arrastam atrás de si(.)Nada há a dizer a respeito de um autor sobre o qual toda a gente tem já uma opinião: e é uma empresa tão ingrata como inútil recomendar um de q ninguém tenha ouvido falar.
— Oct 10, 2026 02:28AM 2 comments
Do Prazer de Odiar e Outros Ensaios

Katya
Katya is on page 86 of 465 of Legenda
It was widely known that he was unable to consummate his betrothal to his first wife, and there were rumours that he had a deformed penis.(.)Henry had as much luck impregnating Joan as he had with his first wife, leading to drastic measures. A Jewish physician(.)attempted to artificially inseminate [Joana de Portugal] using a vial of Henry's sperm - the first recorded instance of such a practice.

[Séc. XV]
— Oct 09, 2026 01:18AM Add a comment
Legenda

Katya
Katya is on page 29 of 256 of Do Prazer de Odiar e Outros Ensaios
(...)nada se conserva tão bem como uma decoação de amargura. Vamos ficando cansados de tudo menos de ridicularizar os outros e de nos congratularmos pelos seus defeitos.
Começamos a desgostar-nos dos nossos livros favoritos, ao cabo de algum tempo, pela mesma razão. Não conseguimos ler as mesmas obras para sempre.
— Oct 07, 2026 11:54PM Add a comment
Do Prazer de Odiar e Outros Ensaios

Katya
Katya is on page 86 of 465 of Legenda
It was widely known that he was unable to consummate his betrothal to his first wife, and there were rumours that he had a deformed penis.(.)Henry had as much luck impregnating Joan as he had with his first wife, leading to drastic measures. A Jewish physician named Samaya attempted to artificially inseminate Joan [Joana de Portugal] using a vial of Henry's sperm - the first recorded instance of such a practice.
— Oct 07, 2026 11:53PM Add a comment
Legenda

Katya
Katya is on page 25 of 256 of Do Prazer de Odiar e Outros Ensaios
As velhas amizades são como carnes servidas repetidamente, frias,desagradáveis e insonsas.O estômago revolta-se contra elas.Ou as relações constantes e a familiaridade geram despeito e desassossego;ou então, se nos encontramos de novo, depois de um intervalo de ausência,já não parecemos os mesmos.Um está demasiado esperto,outro demasiado néscio para nosso gosto; e perguntamo-nos porque não o tínhamos percebido antes.
— Oct 07, 2026 05:29AM Add a comment
Do Prazer de Odiar e Outros Ensaios

Katya
Katya is on page 24 of 256 of Do Prazer de Odiar e Outros Ensaios
O prazer de odiar, como um mineral venenoso, corrói o cerne da religião e transforma-a numa úlcera biliosa e carrancuda; faz do patriotismo uma desculpa para transportar o fogo, a peste e a fome para outras terras: não deixa à virtude mais do que o espírito de censura e uma vigilância estreita, ciosa e inquisitorial sobre as acções e os motivos dos outros.
— Oct 06, 2026 04:44AM Add a comment
Do Prazer de Odiar e Outros Ensaios

Katya
Katya is on page 19 of 256 of Do Prazer de Odiar e Outros Ensaios
O espírito de malevolência sobrevive ao seu exercício prático. Aprendemos a vergar a vontade e a manter as nossas acções manifestas dentro dos limites da humanidade muito antes de conseguirmos submeter os sentimentos e imaginações ao mesmo tom anódino.
— Oct 05, 2026 03:22AM 2 comments
Do Prazer de Odiar e Outros Ensaios

Katya
Katya is on page 38 of 256 of An Unexpected Life: A Memoir
Whatever may be happening in life, books are reliable.
— Oct 04, 2026 11:51AM 2 comments
An Unexpected Life: A Memoir

Katya
Katya is on page 46 of 348 of Mulheres, Raça e Classe
As mulheres não eram vistas como demasiado «femininas» para trabalhar nas minas de carvão e nas fundições de ferro, para cortarem árvores e abrirem valas. Na construção do canal Santee, na Carolina do Norte, as escravas correspondiam a 50% da mão-de-obra. As mulheres também trabalharam nos diques do Luisiana, e muitas das vias-férreas ainda em utilização nos Estados Unidos foram em parte construídas pelas escravas.
— Oct 01, 2026 12:03AM Add a comment
Mulheres, Raça e Classe

Katya
Katya is on page 38 of 256 of An Unexpected Life: A Memoir
[My mother] used to say children are little strangers who come into your home, and you have the duty and the joy of caring for them and loving them, but they don’t belong to you.
— Sep 30, 2026 01:37AM Add a comment
An Unexpected Life: A Memoir

Katya
Katya is on page 38 of 256 of An Unexpected Life: A Memoir
It’s amazing that time future is always present in time past, yet how rarely we understand that.
— Sep 29, 2026 01:51AM Add a comment
An Unexpected Life: A Memoir

Katya
Katya is on page 46 of 348 of Mulheres, Raça e Classe
A maioria dos proprietários utilizava um sistema de cálculo do rendimento dos escravos baseado nas taxas médias de produtividade(.)As crianças eram assim consideradas a quarta parte de uma unidade de mão-de-obra. E, regra geral, assumia-se que as mulheres equivaliam a uma unidade completa de mão-de-obra - a menos que tivessem sido expressamente designadas para a função de «reprodutoras» ou de «amas-de-leite».
— Sep 27, 2026 03:32AM Add a comment
Mulheres, Raça e Classe

Katya
Katya is on page 46 of 348 of Mulheres, Raça e Classe
[Frederick Douglass]declarou q não se sentia diminuído pelo rótulo de «homem dos direitos das mulheres»(.)É possível q a[sua] atitude tenha sido motivada por saber q as brancas tinham sido apelidadas de «amantes de pretos» numa tentativa de as convencer a desistirem da campanha abolicionista.E ele sabia q as mulheres eram indispensáveis no seio do movimento, tanto pelo seu grande número como pela «sua competência...»
— Sep 26, 2026 03:28AM Add a comment
Mulheres, Raça e Classe

Katya
Katya is on page 94 of 307 of Mary Shelley: Uma Biografia da Autora de Frankenstein
As interpretações eivadas de psicologia de bolso q fazem de Victor Frankenstein e do monstro uma mesma pessoa passam ao lado de algo essencial.Se o público hoje pensa q o monstro se chama Frankenstein não é necessariamente porque confunde o criador com a criatura:é também porque, como o monstro não tem nome, é preciso dar-lhe um.E, nas nossas sociedades patriarcais, o filho de Frankenstein chama-se Frankenstein.
— Sep 23, 2026 12:40PM Add a comment
Mary Shelley: Uma Biografia da Autora de Frankenstein

Katya
Katya is on page 50 of 465 of Legenda
The saints were the medieval equivalents of today's superheroes, and individuals would have their personal favourites who they most closely identified with.
— Sep 22, 2026 06:34AM Add a comment
Legenda

Katya
Katya is on page 40 of 465 of Legenda
Nostalgia (.) is easily weaponised, with the past presented to us through rose-tinted spectacles as a time that politicians promise we can return to. The wave of isolationism currently sweeping the globe is fuelled by the belief that, in the face of rapid transformations in technology, global communication and increased integration, the answer is to go back to something earlier, something seemingly better.
— Sep 17, 2026 12:51PM Add a comment
Legenda

Katya
Katya is on page 15 of 465 of Legenda
Elizabeth ruled over their kingdom during a period of famine and flood, giving away food(.)to assist the poor. It was at this time that 'the miracle of the roses' was said to have occurred.(.)Louis wanted to prove her innocence in front of his guests, so asked her to open her cloak and reveal anything hidden underneath it. As she pulled back her garment, a vision of red and white roses appeared proving her sanctity.
— Sep 16, 2026 10:57AM 1 comment
Legenda

« previous 1 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 … 65 66
Follow Katya's updates via RSS