Milestones of First Wave Feminism
1770–84
Abigail Adams corresponds with her husband
1792
Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
1821
Frances Wright, Views of Society and Manners in America
1837
Harriet Martineau, Society in America
1837
Angelina Grimké lectures in public about abolition and women’s suffrage
1837
Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady attend World
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I knew I thought differently in Turkish and in English - not because thought and language were the same, but because different languages forced you to think about different things.
The Power of Words
You, because, free, instantly, and new, these are the most powerful words in the English language. “You,” is an important word, because people love hearing about themselves. Listen to a 1-3-year-old talk next time you’re around them. “Me,” and “mine,” are likely going to be a huge part of their vocabulary. It might even be the
Stories that are actually concerned primarily with ‘fairies’, that is with creatures that might also in modern English be called ‘elves’, are relatively rare, and as a rule not very interesting. Most good ‘fairy-stories’ are about the aventures of men in the Perilous Realm or upon its shadowy marches. Naturally so; for if elves are true, and really exist independently of our tales about them, then this also is certainly true: elves are not primarily concerned with us, nor we with them. Our fates are sundered, and our paths seldom meet. Even upon the borders of Faerie we encounter them only at some chance crossing of the ways.
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'Can' started as something else: cunnan in Old English meant “know.” 'Could' meant, all by itself, “knew.” There was even an old expression “to can by heart” alongside our familiar “know by heart.” Modern English is littered with remnants of that stage: other offshoots of cunnan are cunning and canny, all about having your wits about you.
The greatest Old English poem is Beowulf, which belongs to the seventh century. It is a story of about 3,000 lines, and it is the first English epic. The name of its author is unknown.
