Forgive Me For My Synapses

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It was a very grey morning but at least my breakfast was colourful :) banana vanilla oats topped with more banana, raspberries, nectarine, peanut butter and white mulberries!

Banana icecream heaven 🍌 chocolate nicecream just never gets old to me ❤

This mornings smoothie bowl!

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Tender Dried Cranberry Fig Scones

In retrospect, I’d tell 18-year-old Samira: Opinion isn’t truth. Keep on. Be patient. Someone once told me success is all about the right role, right person, right project, right time. I’ve been blessed with that in Poussey in Orange Is the New Black and Moira in The Handmaid’s Tale. I do feel worthy of these roles.

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In 1907, a visit to India made a striking impression on her, when she encountered the poverty and devastation left by her father’s abdication. It was then when she met with Indian freedom fighters. After she returned to Britain she joined the suffragette movement, and as a sign of dissent she refused to pay taxes. She also auctioned her belongings and donated the money to women’s rights causes. On 14 June 1928, she became the president of the Committee of the Suffragette Fellowship. It was during her term that women were granted the right to vote in Britain.

Her first feature film, Les malheurs de Sophie, was released in 1946, followed by three other films based on Collette novels. The 1951 film The Pit of Loneliness was perhaps her most controversial, heavily censored and restricted because of the portrayal of a lesbian relationship.

She was proficient in Latin and Greek, and became an accomplished translator as well as writer. She is generally recognized as the first woman in France to contribute to literary criticism, and amongst the first to advocate for gender equality.