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... live out our lives hiding our " secret , " certain that its discovery will mean our destruction . If we trust our own perceptions and ability to interpret experience for ourselves , we become intensely protective of our knowledge ...
... live out our lives hiding our " secret , " certain that its discovery will mean our destruction . If we trust our own perceptions and ability to interpret experience for ourselves , we become intensely protective of our knowledge ...
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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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Speaking Freely: Unlearning the Lies of the Fathers' Tongues Julia Penelope No preview available - 1990 |
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