I was talking with my friend YL yesterday. She’s a wicked smart woman and she said this really profound thing. “You know,” she said (I’m paraphrasing), “I was reading this book which was talking about the process by which a caterpillar becomes a butterfly. And I got–I mean, I knew this, but […]
“They had words for women like me. Insane fell out of favor, as did nervous breakdown. Clinically depressed was, I believe, in vogue. But ask any woman who has had times in her life when she was not all there. She will say she was asleep.
And women who fall asleep and […]
Name and Age: Pauline, 14
Secret Actual Name: Pauline the Futon Queen (though now that I no longer have a futon, I suppose it ought to be “Pauline the Sleep-Number-Bed Queen”)
Prior Name: She came with this name from the woman who rescued her.
Generic Nicknames: Pauli–>Pollywog–>Wog–>Wogger, The Wog, Woggeroo, Keg on Legs
Nicknames When […]
sadosociety n: society spawned by phallic lust; the sum of places/times where the beliefs and practices of sadomasochism are The Rule; Torture Cross Society: PATRIARCHY, SNOOLDOM
From Websters’ First New Intergalactic Wickedary of the English Language conjured by Mary Daly in cahoots with Jane Caputi.
You know, I’ve been trying to write something about this book for weeks. The library wants it back in a bad way, so y’all are just going to have to forgive me if this analysis isn’t up to my usual standards.
What I like/what is important about this book:1. The title is great. […]
It is possible to remake flesh and bone without […]
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