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when girls and women who were tightly girdled, tightly reined, and tightly muzzled were called “nice,”
Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés • Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
“Miss Leavitt's convalescence at her parents’ home in Beloit lasted longer than a year. When she finally felt ready to return to work, in January 1910, she was still not strong enough to travel to Cambridge. Pickering agreed to let her work remotely on determining magnitudes for the stars of the North Polar Sequence. Under the special
... See moreMyrtilla Miner may have been ‘frail’, as Frederick Douglass observed, but she was definitely formidable, and was always able, at lesson time, to discover the eye of that racist storm. Early one morning, however, she was abruptly awakened by the odor of smoke and raging flames, which soon consumed her schoolhouse. Although her school was destroyed,
... See moreAngela Y. Davis • Women, Race & Class (Penguin Modern Classics)
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