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... live , where we do not live . Women spend their lives making up excuses for men , who they are , and what they do to us . Always , we blame ourselves . MY ASSUMPTIONS I've written Speaking Freely because I want to change the world ...
... live , where we do not live . Women spend their lives making up excuses for men , who they are , and what they do to us . Always , we blame ourselves . MY ASSUMPTIONS I've written Speaking Freely because I want to change the world ...
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... lives , most of the women who did learn Latin were nuns . Because Latin was the language of intellectual privilege for so long , the only grammars that existed were Latin grammars . Grammars , understood as textbooks in which some uses ...
... lives , most of the women who did learn Latin were nuns . Because Latin was the language of intellectual privilege for so long , the only grammars that existed were Latin grammars . Grammars , understood as textbooks in which some uses ...
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... lives we cannot control frightens us . Yet , there are areas of our lives over which we don't have control , and some disabled people consider the phrase " differently abled " to be a ridiculous euphemism because there are things they ...
... lives we cannot control frightens us . Yet , there are areas of our lives over which we don't have control , and some disabled people consider the phrase " differently abled " to be a ridiculous euphemism because there are things they ...
Contents
The Glamour of Grammar | 1 |
Language Is a Woman | 16 |
self | 19 |
Copyright | |
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