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Today’s quotation: very English, very northern
Here’s Victoria Wood, on death: In India, if a man dies, the widow flings herself on to the funeral pyre. In this country, the woman just says: “72 baps, Connie; you slice, I’ll spread.” Thanks to Ms...
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“All the world’s a stage …
… and all the men and women merely players.” And this link to a Vanity Fair article on the difficulties experienced by female writers trying to break into the closed circle world of writing for the US...
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On “Women of the Raj”
I’ve just finished reading “Women of the Raj” by Margaret MacMillan, purchased for the bargainous price of 1p from Amazon Marketplace (this second-hand book buying thing is my token nod towards...
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Victory for PinkStinks!
As my friend CJ would say, it’s “very pleasing” to see that PinkStinks’s campaign against supermarket giant Sainsbury’s has been successful; thousands of children’s dressing-up outfits have now been...
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Women of Britain: please vote!
Rocking the vote in Florida, 2004 Whatever you do, wherever you are today, please go and vote; a hundred years ago, you wouldn’t have had the option. A hundred years ago, women died, were...
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Children, women, flip-flops and money
Happy New Year! A friend just sent me a link to this site, wordle.net, which will generate your own word cloud for you, based on your choice of text (which you paste into their cloud generator...
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Desperate housewives?
I love (actually, maybe “love” is too strong – OK, I’m “interested in”) the way that Mad Men’s Betty Draper is now being used by picture editors as visual shorthand to illustrate articles referring to,...
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“Feminism is the unfinished revolution …”
- declared Natasha Walter in The Guardian earlier this week, in her column about the centenary of International Women’s Day. Meanwhile, back in my spiritual home of India, Dr Elizabeth Menon‘s piece...
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End of week round up – mostly celebrating #IWD2016
This week, it was pretty much all about International Women’s Day on March 8th, with lots of organisations using the event as a launch pad for their initiatives and announcements. Here’s some of...
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Four Things I’ve Liked This Week
Here we have a Buzzfeed-esque list of “4 Things” which have caught my eye of late: things which made me laugh, made me (fleetingly, before I remember the weather, #8monthsofsnoweachyear) want to...
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