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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.