HOYDEN (hoid’n): woman of saucy, boisterous or carefree behavior
“They spoke of her in whispers!”
“Men chased her, charmed her, cheated her … But she outfoxed them all!”
“SWAMP HOYDEN”
“She was no better than she had to be.”
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Lauredhel is a forty-something woman with a disability. She lives in her Western Australian family home where books, Lego, and soapmaking gear constantly compete for space. She blogs about feminism, reproductive justice, freedom from violence, the use and misuse of language, medical science, being disabled, her vegetable garden, and whatever else pops into her head.
Lauredhel also blogs at FWD/Forward (feminists with disabilities), scribbles at her personal dreamwidth journal Selective and Arbitrary, and co-moderates Hollaback Australia. She joined Hoyden About Town in 2007.
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OMG. If you get them, will you, pretty please, type up an excerpt or two for us?
I’ve kept on running across those bookcovers in image searches, but never really looked at them closely.
So, knife-fight: would she outfox Scarlett O’Hara I wonder?
“She was no better than she had to be.”
This should be on my tombstone.
At the beginning or the end of GWTW?
How badly do you want it? I found it, but it’s $12 with $4 shipping.
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