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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
Democracy, Journalism, and Monopoly: How to Fund Independent News Media in the 21st Century
“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 circumstances
... 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)
Gaining explicit permission to tell another’s tale and the proper crediting of that tale, if permission to it is given, is absolutely essential, for it maintains the genealogical umbilicus;
Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés • Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
It is with the permission and blessing of three living generations of familial healer-tellers who understand the subtleties and requirements of story as healing phenomena that I carry these forward.4