Elizabeth Renzetti

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Elizabeth Renzetti


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Toronto, Canada
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It all began in a small sod hut on the Prairies .... no, it didn't. It began with my failure to do well in math, which led to journalism school, which led to the Globe and Mail, which led to interviewing dozens (hundreds? it felt that way sometimes) of authors, which led to this run-on sentence that would have caused my first journalism professor to cut off my typing digits.
In short, I was one of those kids whose best friends were fictional characters. I walked into poles regularly because I read as I walked, and I was a better reader than a walker.
Then I was a journalist, first in Toronto and then in Los Angeles and London for the Globe and Mail, sometimes known as the Mope and Pail, Canada's national newspaper. All along, I continued to f
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“The bottom of my purse is where my worst sins reside: vanity and sloth.”
Elizabeth Renzetti, Shrewed: A Wry and Closely Observed Look at the Lives of Women and Girls

“It wasn’t a question of bad apples; it was a question of the barrel, being constructed with wood that everyone knew was rotten”
Elizabeth Renzetti, What She Said: Conversations About Equality

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