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Strength to Your Sword Arm: Selected Writings by Brenda Ueland, Susan Allen Toth

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3.0

Ueland is a drove, a full battalion in a single woman, and her words are likewise a ranked and disorder-order of a host. It is a delight just to wander beside her, as she happens upon new thoughts and drives them home, or shuffles them sideways to get to the next. The image of battalion is good, because she really is very disorderly in her order, like an army.

She mostly happens upon truth after truth. Probably because she walks daily and at length, she thinks clearly and at length. She should have a full 5-star review, except for her heart-breaking flippant fol-de-rol about abortion. She must have forgotten to walk her thoughts and hearts out on that one.

For reflections, for walks-in-words, for a woman's voice that is distinctly an unerringly her own -- read.
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