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Book cover for Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language
They brand judgments like these as pseudofeminist advice aimed at helping women talk with “more authority” so that they can be “taken more seriously.” What they don’t seem to realize is that they’re actually keeping women in a state of ...more
Rita Mccord
Bring apologies back!! There is no need to eliminate them from female discourse to sound more masculine.
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John Steinbeck
“Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.”
John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

Simone de Beauvoir
“Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day.”
Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

“Teachers and students use the power of peers positively to progress learning.”
John A.C. Hattie, Visible Learning for Teachers: Maximizing Impact on Learning

Janet Fitch
“Always learn poems by heart. They have to become the marrow in your bones. Like fluoride in the water, they'll make your soul impervious to the world's soft decay.”
Janet Fitch, White Oleander

“The more accomplished teachers set tasks that had a greater degree of challenge; they were more sensitive to context and they had a deeper understanding of the content being taught.”
John A.C. Hattie, Visible Learning for Teachers: Maximizing Impact on Learning

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