Linda's Weapons and Battles

Celina Habib

Description

Linda first shared her biography the year her granddaughter was born. This new life made her reflect about the battles she had fought and the weapons she had used. Were they the proper ones? A result of culture? Was anyone hurt? While pondering, she also wanted to inspire other women sharing her adventures.
A simple shack in the outback of Brazil was her birthplace. Linda grew up as a happy and hyperactive child and started working when she was seven years old to help the family’s survival. However, with ten children who survived, the family was forced to give some of the girls away to other homes as young maids. Linda was sent to a city when she was 13, spending her adolescence submitted to juvenile work exploitation and punishments that could have ruined her self-esteem if it were not for her resilience and dreams which she kept secret. Since then, she used her weapons to win the battles she had to face with the power of her feminine energy. Her adventures included a dangerous immigration to Australia and the pursuit of a challenging career in which she succeeds, becomes the famous “Brazilian Bombshell”, helps her family financially and can find the love of her life with a beautiful family.

Linda compartilhou pela primeira vez sua biografia no ano do nascimento da sua neta. Esta nova vida permitiu-lhe refletir sobre as batalhas que lutou e as armas que empregou. Elas foram adequadas? Resultaram da cultura? Alguém foi ferido? Enquanto ponderava ela também desejava inspirar outras mulheres compartilhando suas aventuras.
Um simples barraco no nordeste árido do Brasil foi seu local de nascimento. Linda cresceu como uma criança feliz e hiperativa e começou a trabalhar aos sete anos de idade para ajudar a sobrevivência dos familiares. No entanto, com dez filhos que sobreviveram, a família foi forçada a ceder algumas filhas como pequenas criadas. Linda foi enviada para uma cidade quando tinha 13 anos vivendo uma adolescência submetida a exploração do trabalho juvenil e castigos que poderiam ter arruinado sua autoestima se não fosse pela sua resiliência e sonhos que ela guardava em segredo. Desde então ela usou suas armas para ganhar batalhas que ela teve que enfrentar com o poder da sua energia feminina. Suas aventuras incluem uma imigração arriscada para a Australia e a adoção de uma carreira desafiadora na qual ela é bem-sucedida, torna-se a famosa “Granada Brasileira”, ajuda financeiramente toda sua família e encontra o amor da sua vida com uma bela família.

Sujets

• Biography
• Autobiography

Informations

• Publié par: Xlibris AU
• Date de parution: 21 mars 2023
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669889885
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 5 Mo

Extrait

LINDA’S
 
The
 
WEAPONS
 
Female Energy
 
AND
 
in Action
 
BATTLES
 
 
 
From the Power ful Women’s Journeys Se ries
 
 
CELINA H ABIB
 
 
 
Copyright © 2023 by Celina Habib. 849774
 
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.
 
 
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ISBN: 978-1-6698-8986-1 (sc)
ISBN: 978-1-6698-8987-8 (hc)
ISBN: 978-1-6698-8988-5 (e)
 
Library of Congress Control Number: 2023902362
 
 
 
Rev. date: 03/17/2023
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
For John and Osv aldo,
They awakened my feminine ener gyHe
 
 
With Gratitude to L inda
And to all the people who collaborated with her s tory
And whose privacy is mainta ined
 
With Gratitud e to
Dr. Moacir Oliveira, for his insights on the feminine en ergy
Margaret Haworth for her contributions to the English ver sion
Carolina Cunha, for the illustrations that transported us to Linda’s child hood
Helen Mills, for her contributions to the final d raft
Contents
AN INVITATION TO READ
BOOK I: Linda Tells Her Story
1 . Starting a Conversation
2 . My Childhood in the Outback
3 . Living in Australia
4 . Shaping My Character
5 . Domination and Juvenile Work Exploitation
6 . Early Motherhood and Desired Motherhood
7 . Rio de Janeiro as The Mecca of Fame
8 . Ups and Downs While Fulfilling my Dreams
9 . Choosing a Career
10 . A Most Expected Love
11 . A Successful Career
12 . Transforming Lives?
12.1 The Life of My Parents
12.2 The Beginning of My First Sister’s Independence
12.3 Protecting Carol’s Reputation and Her Desire to Be a Mother
12.4 Finding Helen
12.5 Investing with My Brother Octavian and His Wife Deborah
12.6 Opportunities for a Nephew and Nieces
12.7 A Support Point, Always
13 . My Life, God and Synchronicity
14 . Mrs. Flor and Her Two Husbands
15 . What about the future?
BOOK II: Many Storytellers Appear
The Author Undertakes a Survey
The Mother Tells a Little About Herself and The Daughter
The Daughter Perceives the Mother As Quirky
How the Firs t de Facto Husband Perceives Linda
Living with the Siblings
How The Best Friend has Fun with Linda
How Helen Perceives Linda
Are Friends Unanimous?
A Former Employer Testimony
A Little Of Jay’s Story and His Testimony
Francisca Short History and Sweetness
The Son’s Statement
TO CONTINUE THE CONVERSATION
AN INVITATION TO READ
When we think of powerful women, maybe we imagine queens, princesses, stateswomen, billionaires, actresses, singers, or famous models. In short, we have in mind the image of those women who are in history or in the media. We never think of our neighbor, that person we met at a simple women’s gathering or at the supermarket. Among these women, who are not in history, in the media or in our imagination, are some whose history reveals a great power of resilience. This power and feminine energy inevitably determine the course of their lives by way of “weapons and battles”, self-esteem, focus and determination, transformation and influence.
Imagine a woman who at birth did not deserve her father’s gaze for several days, simply by rejecting her gender, at a time when only male children were valued and welcomed, in a rural society where boys were put to work at an early age. Imagine the poverty level of this girl, try to picture the shack where she was born, counting only on a “beaten floor” 1 where she slept on cardboard, together with other children. That is where this woman spent her childhood, with her brothers and cousins. Despite the material poverty this girl could live happily with nature, enjoying the piece of land where her father built a shack to house the family. Despite being deprived of material comfort, this shelter was surrounded by fruit trees, the waters of the streams and animals. For the girl, the references of urban material comfort did not exist at that time. Imagine an overactive girl who could not read or write at school, but was attracted to the music of a bar, scorning the quiet place her mother chose during church Mass. Imagine that their parents, with many children, were forced to send their children to different relatives’ homes so that they would be fed and perhaps have an education.
This is the beginning of Linda’s life, who became known in Western Australia’s adult entertainment industry as “The Brazilian Bombshell”. Why write about her? First because she told me her life is worth a romance book. Or maybe a movie, a soap opera. Secondly, because she wanted to document her life for her children, including a newborn granddaughter in 2021 and, who knows, perhaps inspire some women. In Linda’s mind were those women who lived depressed and surrounded by problems, despite having all material comforts since birth without taking advantage of those conditions. And mainly because Linda impressed me. Something in her energy caught my attention. I met her at a Christmas lunch of a group called SINER’s ( Sunset International Neighbors ). The “sin” in the name amused me, especially because the group is composed of women who are currently over 50, with septuagenarians being predominant. Linda was the youngest of the group when I met her. Very beautiful, perfect body, dressed in a careless way for someone at a party. (Here’s my prejudiced notion of how a woman should dress for a social meeting). She was with her mother-in-law, who soon after died.
Months later the SINER’s lunch was held at her house and I had the opportunity to see a picture of Linda with her husband. Beautiful young couple: she, the Brazilian brunette, topless and looking relaxed; he the blonde Australian surfer with long hair, looking like an actor, both lovers of the Indian Ocean and the aridity of the outback of the country in the photo background. Surely both would have stories worthy of a book. However, he prefers his privacy, just praising his wife, feeling gratified with her success, and providing her with fun.
 

Linda and Will in the outback
Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder , defines the subjectivity of beauty; what is attractive to some people may not attract others. Shakespeare wrote of beauty in Love’s Labour Lost: Beauty is bought by judgement of the eye… Maybe that is why people think the first sentence in this paragraph is his; instead, it should be credited to Margaret Wolfe Hungerford in her novel Molly Bawn, published in 1878. 2
Let’s agree that beauty is subjective. However, how can we consider it when there are many who see the beauty in works, such as in Renoir’s paintings or Michelangelo’s statue of David? Beauty must be considered an aesthetic value.
From Plato through Aquinas to Kant and beyond beauty has traditionally been considered the paradigmatic aesthetic quality. […] When we look at that which is beautiful, the object gives rise to a certain kind of pleasure within us. T h u s aesthetic value is characterized in terms of that which affords us pleasure. KIERAN, M. 3
At that lunch Linda received the guests very well, again dressed unpretentiously, and wearing slippers, that ideal footwear for the sleeping outfit. But she welcomed all of us with great joy into her beautiful home, determining a task for each guest in the preparation of the collective lunch, as the perfect host. At the end of lunch and kitchen cleaning, Linda invited me to view her home and her backyard where she raises laying hens and a noisy duck. At the time I began to ask her questions about her life, confirming the fullness of adventures lived.
Linda told me about her life in weekly meetings over a few months during which I discovered the unfolding of histories and stories of a large family, coming from a poor region of Brazil and its migration within the country in search of better living conditions. She also allowed me to interview people who enriched her history and stories, such as her mother, siblings, children, nephews and nieces, spouses, some close friends, and a former employer. She decided to use the first person in the narrative. I felt it was her way of showing better resourcefulness and a first step towards her interest in literature, because she was finally starting to read in Portuguese and improving her English. Simplicity is part of her beauty.
What’s so powerful about Linda? I invite you, especially the female reader, to get involved with her life history and discover her female transformative power and how Linda knew how to use her attributes as weapons to win battles.
BOOK I
Linda Tells Her Story
1 . Starting a Conversation
Once upon a time someone who knew a little of the twists and turns of my life asked me what had caused the most impact in my history. So much!!!!! At that time, I could remember only two completely different events that made an impact in my life.
The first was a dream I later identified as a premonition. The weird thing is it wasn’t my dream! My boyfriend woke up rubbing his eyes, as always, and told me he had dreamed of me in the company of a tall, skinny gringo , blue eyes, blonde hair, becoming bald. At that time, I was preparing to travel to Australia. I had the help of a man who wasn’t gringo , tall or blonde, and I’d never mentioned anything about him to