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1 " Dear Woman,Sometimes you’ll just be too much woman.Too smart,Too beautiful,Too strong.Too much of something that makes a man feel like less of a man,Which will make you feel like you have to be less of a woman.The biggest mistake you can makeIs removing jewels from your crownTo make it easier for a man to carry.When this happens, I need you to understandYou do not need a smaller crown—You need a man with bigger hands. "
― Michael Reid
2 " THE MORE SHE FOUND HERSELF, THE LESS SHE FELT THE NEED TO FIND A MAN THAT MADE HER FEEL LIKE SHE WAS WORTHY. A MAN’S JOB IS NOT TO GIVE A WOMAN HER CROWN. IT IS ONLY THEIR JOB TO RESPECT IT. (Sign) "
― Michael Reid , Dear Woman
3 " DEAR WOMAN, Sometimes You’ll just be too much woman. Too smart, Too beautiful, Too strong. Too much of something That makes a man feel like less of a man, Which will start making you feel like you have to be less of a woman. The biggest mistake you can make Is removing jewels from your crown To make it easier for a man to carry. When this happens, I need you to understand, You do not need a smaller crown— You need a man with bigger hands. "
4 " In a perfect world, a woman receives her crown from her father, and her mother shows her how it is to be worn. "
5 " THE MORE SHE FOUND HERSELF, THE LESS SHE FELT THE NEED TO FIND A MAN THAT MADE HER FEEL LIKE SHE WAS WORTHY. A MAN’S JOB IS NOT TO GIVE A WOMAN HER CROWN. IT IS ONLY THEIR JOB TO RESPECT IT. "
6 " Although Brazil never practised the racial segregation that marred the United States or South Africa, many of the poor in today's Brazil are of darker skin than the better-off. "
― Michael Reid , Brazil: The Troubled Rise of a Global Power
7 " Cariocas, as Rio's inhabitants are called, are seen by other Brazilians as better at partying than working. "
8 " But women please note: with great power, comes great responsibility. A responsibility to yourself, a responsibility to the world, a responsibility to your world—and everything you let in it. This "
9 " This is YOUR book. With it, comes the responsibility to be a better woman. Also a better friend, better daughter, better mother, better wife. Not everything will apply. What "
10 " On both counts, that meant a confrontation with the United Fruit Company, an American firm based in Boston. Known to Central Americans as el pulpo (the octopus) because of its all-encompassing tentacles, in 1899 United Fruit had obtained a 99-year concession over a vast tract of jungle from Guatemala’s then dictator – and with it, the right to finish and operate a railway to the Caribbean coast. "
― Michael Reid , Forgotten Continent: The Battle for Latin America's Soul
11 " Árbenz ordered the expropriation of 380,000 acres (154,000ha) of United Fruit land – a substantial chunk of its holdings, of which 85 per cent was left fallow, supposedly in case of banana diseases "
12 " Eisenhower administration was acting as enforcer for United Fruit? Since the days of Arévalo, the company had conducted an effective propaganda campaign in the United States, painting Guatemala as being in the grip of communists. "
13 " Not for the last time in Latin America, the critics argue, the United States failed to distinguish between a nationalist reformer and a communist. "
14 " In the event, in Guatemala the US crushed democracy, not communism. Castillo Armas swiftly reversed the agrarian reform, reached agreement with United Fruit, and restored the old order of corrupt dictatorship. "
