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“somebody who can take her into a room”
:
“Keith Olbermann’s Idea for Beating Hillary: Literally Beating Hillary,” Rachel Sklar,
Huffington Post
, May 2, 2008.

“Stop Hillary!”
:
“Stop Hillary!,” Doug Henwood,
Harper’s Magazine
.

a Photoshopped image of her eating a baby
:
Doug Henwood, Twitter.

CHAPTER 8: REVOLUTIONARY

“Anne ux. Richard Walker being cast out of the church of Boston”
:
Curious Punishments of Bygone Days
, Alice Morse Earle, p. 74.

“No brawling wives, no furious wenches”
:
Ibid., p. 16.

“One of the latest, and certainly the most notorious”
:
Ibid., p. 37.

8 percent in 1960
:
“Record Share of Americans Have Never Married,” Wendy Wang and Kim Parker, Pew Research Center.

as compared to 28 percent in 1990
:
“The New Demography of American Motherhood,” Gretchen Livingston and D’Vera Cohn, Pew Research Center, May 6, 2010.

“the joy of having children”
:
Ibid.

“When you agree to meet a strange man in a strange place”
:
“Mitchell: Rape case sends mixed messages on prostitution,” Mary Mitchell,
Chicago Sun-Times
, September 12, 2015.

“All survivors of rape”
:
“What you should do instead of victim-blaming sex workers who report being raped,” Anne Theriault,
Daily Dot
, May 16, 2015.

“Even if you’re a whore, you don’t want to be raped”
:
Lady Sings the Blues
, Holiday & Dufty, chapter 1.

“change ‘bitch’ to ‘whore’ ”
:
Billie Holiday: The Musician and the Myth
, Szwed, chapter 1.

“I have seen a number of wise men”
:
Theroigne de Mericourt: A Melancholic Woman during the French Revolution
, Élisabeth Roudinesco, p. 28.

“I had always been extremely humiliated”
:
“Madness and Revolution: The Sad Life of Theroigne de Mericourt,”
History and Other Thoughts
, May 2015.

“This nymph is a trollop”
:
Roudinesco, p. 31.

“Theroigne in the district”
:
Ibid., p. 56.

“the rights of a man over his wife”
:
Ibid., p. 39.

“I cannot bring myself to admit”
:
Ibid., p. 61.

“I left the French Revolution without too much regret”
:
Ibid., p. 43.

“barbaric queen, adulterous wife”
:
Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution
, Simon Schama, pp. 224–25.

“all its members have drawn from the vagina of the Austrian Woman”
:
“The Royal Dildo,” Leah Marie Brown.

“The Royal Dildo”
:
Ibid.

“the greatest of all the joys of the Pere Duchesne”
:
Schama, p. 800.

“I propose that each section appoint six women citizens”
:
Roudinesco, p. 134.

“I have neither paper nor light”
:
Ibid., p. 147.

“She outlined a few words”
:
Ibid., p. 172

“She acted as if she were involved in very important matters”
:
Ibid.

“gave herself to various leaders of the party”
:
Ibid., pp. 170–71.

“In all that she did”
:
The Song Machine
, John Seabrook, chapter 7.

“She’s fifteen years old”
:
Ibid.

“It is perfectly simple”
:
Roudinesco, pp. 96–97.

“If we wish to preserve our liberty”
:
Ibid.

About the Author

SADY DOYLE founded the blog
Tiger Beatdown
in 2008. Her work has appeared in
In These Times, The Guardian, Elle, The Atlantic, Slate, Buzzfeed, Rookie
, and lots of other places around the Internet. She won the first-ever Women’s Media Center Social Media Award by popular vote in 2011. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Trainwreck
is her first book.

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