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Liberty Street, Heather Marshall – Recommended

Recommended read, but here are just a couple insights that struck me …

“Women—married women with children, specifically—always seemed to be telling Emily she couldn’t understand certain things until she was married.”  15

Yeah, I used to get that a lot.  I should’ve replied “Yeah, and you can’t …

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Difficult Women

“It actually doeosn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman.  That’s why there are so many of us.”  Jane Goodall

Trick Mirror, Jia Tolentino – quotes and comments

from Trick Mirror, Jia Tolentino

I found her opening essay, “The I in the Internet” enlightening:

“Because there were so few search engines [in the 1990s] and no centralized social platforms, discovery on the early internet took place mainly in private, and pleasure existed as its own solitary reward.”  p5 

Interesting …

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Another great read – How to decenter men

https://zawn.substack.com/p/how-to-decenter-men-in-your-life

“Some men don’t like me” Dina Honour

Great read.

https://dinahonour.substack.com/p/some-men-dont-like-me

“Violence against women and children is legal. We just pretend otherwise.” Zawn Villines

https://zawn.substack.com/p/violence-against-women-and-children

“That’s because in patriarchy, nothing trumps a man’s right not to be inconvenienced. His right to act as he wishes will always come before the right of women and children to continue living.”

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“Women don’t leave for ‘no reason.’ Men just think women shouldn’t be allowed to leave.” by Zawn Villines

https://zawn.substack.com/p/the-myth-of-the-wife-who-leaves-without-a7c

Such an excellent piece. Read it several times. Slowly.

A woman alone

“When a woman is all alone, she stands out as a woman, but she becomes invisible as a person.” 

Malcolm Gladwell (in Revenge of the Tipping Point, p123) paraphrasing Rosabeth Moss Kanter, who is speaking about women in groups, such as at work or in sport.

Bbut I’m thinking it describes women …

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“Don’t Have Children” by Kate Manne

https://katemanne.substack.com/p/dont-have-children

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