Tag: Beyonce
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Fear Isn’t a Reason to Quit
In “Why Do We Teach Girls That It’s Cute to Be Scared,” Caroline Paul writes about being one of the first women in the San Francisco Fire Department. “I expected people to question whether I had the physical ability to do the job (even though I was a 5-foot-10, 150-pound ex-college athlete). What I didn’t…
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4 Things You Imply When You Say “You’ll Change Your Mind” to a Woman Who Doesn’t Want Kids
When I was a young girl, I had a fake bottle with fake milk to feed my fake babies. I remember drawing a picture of a pink house with purple heart-shaped windows. A tiny, girly dream house for a tiny (mostly) girly girl and her babies. I even had a name picked out for my…
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Mistakes, We’re Going to Make Them
Wednesday was one of those days. Work. Drive home. Class. It has become routine. A once a week routine, but a routine. But. Construction season has started. So my 30-40 minute commute took me over an hour. I was late to class, and there was no time to sit and zone out for a minute.…
Writer Pam Dewey 