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Linda Rodríguez McRobbie

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Linda Rodríguez McRobbie is an American writer and journalist living in London, England. She's written about everything from the history of toilet paper to the story of the Ouija Board and has, so far, never met a topic that didn't sound utterly fascinating.

After graduating from Columbia School of Journalism in 2004, Linda began her career in Boston, first at the City Desk of the Boston Herald, fielding phone calls from irate readers and would-be tipsters with probable mental illness, and writing articles. From there, she moved to the South End News, paper of record for the South End of Boston, and Bay Windows, paper of record for New England's GLBTQ community. After four years in the trenches of community journalism, Linda decided to both ...more

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Average rating: 3.64 · 7,137 ratings · 1,124 reviews · 2 distinct works • Similar authors

	Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History—Without the Fairy-Tale Endings 3.64 avg rating — 7,093 ratings — published 2013 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ouch!: The New Science of Pain by Margee Kerr, Linda Rodríguez McRobbie 3.80 avg rating — 44 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Genghis Khan considered his daughters superior leaders compared to his sons, and he awarded them kingdoms that they defended tooth and nail (oftentimes against their male siblings).”
― Linda Rodríguez McRobbie, Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History Without the Fairy-Tale Endings

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“In Mongolian culture, Khutulun is remembered by the sport in which she so excelled. These days when Mongolian men wrestle, they wear a sort of long-sleeved vest that is open in the front to prove tp their opponents they don't have breasts. It's a tribute to the woman wrestler who was never defeated.”
― Linda Rodríguez McRobbie, Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History—Without the Fairy-Tale Endings

tags: mongolia, princess-khutulun, wrestling

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“Nothing is spared me in this life,” he remarked wryly, “now a woman has to go mad in the Vatican.”
― Linda Rodríguez McRobbie, Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History Without the Fairy-Tale Endings

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