Writer Pam Dewey

Tag: Savages

  • Fear Isn’t a Reason to Quit

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    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…

  • Burning Down the Page with Plath

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    “My night sweats grease his breakfast plate.” The line caught me, stopped me from flipping the page. I whispered it to myself. Rolled it around on my tongue. Tasted it. This line is from the poem “The Jailor” which appears in the poetry collection, Ariel. Ariel was the manuscript Sylvia Plath left behind when she…