If You Want A Rich Man,

Billie: People say to me “Well, essentially its all just selling your body for money.” Brooke: When you sit at a desk, you sell your mind, When you dig a hole in the ground, you’re selling the strength of your arms. We’re allowed to sell everything about ourselves. People have a problem with one aspect, and that’s sex. You’re even allowed to sell your womb, and have somebody else’s baby, to be a surrogate. That’s okay, people don’t condemn that to the level they condemn prostitution. 

Billie Piper Interviewing Dr. Brooke Magnanti (aka. Author: Belle De Jour)

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Hello my sugar babes!

I just want to thank God for blessing me again but my NY guy gave me $1600 for 2 hours!!!!!! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!

I had plans with my gfs to go out but the NY guy called. He told me he would give me $1600 for 2 hours! So sweet. I’m having a prosperous June! He was staying at the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills. He comes to LA monthly so it’ll be nice seeing him again!

The next $10,000 I’m buying VFIAX & VSMAX. It’s a mutual fund for min $10,000. You know me girls! SAVE SAVE SAVE!

I bought $200 worth Target stuff on my bf’s Postmates account. I try my best not to spend my own money!

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Presuppositions of Neuro-Linguistic Programming

The map is not the territory

Our mental representations (or maps) of the world are not the world. We respond to our mental maps, rather than the world. Mental maps, especially feelings and interpretations, can be modified, updated or altered more...

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Josephine Baker, later known as ‘Bronze Venus’, ‘Black Pearl’ and ‘Créole Goddess’ was born in America in 1906 and later moved to France to become a singer, dancer, and actress. She was the first African-American woman to star in a major motion picture, and became famous worldwide.

Though she grew up as a maid in wealthy white households she eventually became an exotic dancer in France, famously appearing in next to no clothing, and became a French citizen in 1937. 

Ernest Hemingway referred to Baker as ‘the most sensational woman anyone ever saw’ and she received approximately 1500 marriage proposals in her life time. She became a muse for Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Pablo Picasso, and Christian Dior. She had a variety of exotic pets including a cheetah named Chiquita, a chimpanzee named Ethel, a pig named Albert, a snake named Kiki, a goat, a parrot, parakeets, fish, three cats, and seven dogs. 

When WWII broke out, Baker became a volunteer spy for France, and assisted the French Resistance by smuggling messages written in invisible ink on sheet music. She made great efforts to aid those in danger of enemy attack, sent Christmas presents to French soldiers, and smuggled information she gathered in Spain back to France by pinning notes containing the information on the inside of her underwear. She was awarded the Medal of Resistance with Rosette and later named a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour. 

Baker also aided many civil rights movements by refusing to perform to segregated audiences and storming out of a club in Manhattan with actress Grace Kelly after she was refused service. She worked with the NAACP and spoke at a Washington march alongside Martin Luther King Jr. as the only official female speaker. Baker was actually asked by Martin Luther King Jr.’s widow to take his place as leader of the American Civil Rights Movement, but Baker declined on the grounds her twelve adopted children ‘were too young to lose their mother’. 

Baker died in 1975, four days after her final show, attended by such names as Mick Jagger, Shirley Bassey, and Liza Minnelli.