feminism
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Celebrate Yourself!
A writer friend of mine who’s been critiquing my most recent work asked me if I intentionally wrote about crazy people. “Seriously, do you close your eyes and open the DSM to a random page to pick out a form of nuttiness for your heroines?” I don’t. But I admit, it does sound like a fun…
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A Plane of My Own
We’re closing in on a century since Virginia Woolf combined her notes from a series of lectures she held and then put together into an extended essay called “A Room of One’s Own.” While the essay really addresses the need for women writers to have a literal as well as a figurative space in order…
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What’s wrong with the Woman Girl?
If there was only one woman left on the planet would she be judgmental about herself? Would she question her value as a woman? Would she worry whether or not she’s taken seriously? Or would she celebrate every moment like it’s 1999? I would hope it would be the last suggestion, but I kind of…