Once again, I stand in awe of my gender.
Women are amazing creatures.
(Jiang Xiaojuan, a policewoman from Jiangyou county, breastfeeds an orphan in the earthquake area.)
BEIJING, (Xinhuanet) — The Sichuan earthquake of 8.0 magnitude has killed more than 50,000 people and rescue work in the quake-hit areas is going on for the eighth day Monday. Stories of great motherhood, the brightest spot in human nature, are carried throughout the nation.
In the afternoon of May 12, shocked by the great trembling of the quake, Jiang Xiaojuan, a policewoman from Jiangyou county, said nothing. But she handed her 6-month-old baby to her parents with no hesitation and directly hurried out to find the disaster victims and give them help.
As a mother, Xiaojuan knew best what to do. She went to the orphaned babies who were crying of hunger. She breastfed them and gave them her loving care. Xiaojuan realized at the moment that life must go on and she is the mother of them all. At last report, she was breastfeeding eight orphaned babies.
A newspaper in Chengdu, the capital of quake-hit Sichuan province, devoted a special page to the 29-year-old woman, calling her a “hero.”
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Muffy Bolding is a mother/writer/actor/knitter/feminist/withered debutante who likes the smell of asparagus pee, and remains obsessed with the bathroom hygiene of her three children -- despite the fact that they are 23, 19, and 16. She is blissfully married to a cute Jewish boy who looks like Willie Wonka, but remains tragically in love with the dead poet, Ted Hughes. She has the mouth of a Teamster, and her patron saint is Rocco (pestilence relief.) Ms. Bolding lives in Southern California, where she enjoys typing words, making movies, and plucking the rings from the fingers of the dead. She was the co-creator and Editor-in-Chief of the award winning satire zine, Fresno Lampoon, and in between writing screenplays, carnival barking, and savagely threatening her trio of darling larvae with a wooden spoon, she currently publishes the zine, "Withered Debutante." More of her work can also be found in the anthology, "Mamaphonic: Balancing Motherhood and Other Creative Acts", the compilation zine, "Mamaphiles III: Coming Home", as well as in The Cortland Review and hipmama.com. She is currently writing and producing for film and television, and working on a book of essays entitled, "Inside A Chinese Dragon." She has slept around, but not nearly as much as she would have liked.
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