Across the Music

…just read a couple quotes from poor women in third-world countries. I know it’s an old story but it just doesn’t change.

As if land shortage is not bad enough we live a life of tension

worrying about the rain: will it rain or not? There is nothing

about which we say, “this is for tomorrow.” We live hour

to hour.

—A woman, Kajima, Ethiopia

You can’t be sure that when you do a job, you’ll get paid for it.

—An older woman, Dimitrovgrad, Bulgaria

Today, we’re fine; tomorrow they will throw us out.

—A poor woman from a squatter settlement in

Isla Trinitaria, Ecuador