Fw: Girls Don't Play Drums

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Don't miss the piece down towards the end of the page on Quiet Hands...it is

very powerful.

Ellen

Ellen Garber Bronfeld

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DISABILITY IS NATURAL

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

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Matt

In 1960, I was a too-tall and too-gangly

10-year-old girl--and tomboy--in the fifth grade. Because I was the tallest of

all the fifth-graders, I was chosen to play Tom Sawyer in the school play. There

was nothing to be done about my being taller than all my classmates in real

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than the boys in the play--heaven forbid! Since I was a ham (and a tomboy)

portraying a male was okay with me.

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The actions of men are the best interpreters of

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If a picture is worth a thousand words, one act is

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Tom Warson

There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom

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The more emotional one's commitment to a cause or

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pronouncements on that perspective, matters of pride and consistency push one

toward hugging the theory, however discredited.

Gardner

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