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	<title>The Highwire &#187; Observations</title>
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	<description>Gracefully walking the Highwire of modern Womanhood.</description>
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		<title>8 Lessons I wish I had learned already</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 22:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rae</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post was originally called &#8216;Shit I wish I could stop doing&#8217; but I thought better of it. This is a list of mistakes I seem to keep making. Again and again and again. Sometimes despite being aware that it is an issue! Self awareness isn&#8217;t instinct. Not everybody analyses their thoughts and behaviors. For me to assume everybody [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dinosaurs beware! The feminists are coming.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 00:15:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rae</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So to those people who still believe raising children is less important than spending 8 hours a day in an office cubical - you are a dinosaur. The face of feminism is changing. No longer are women who rally and burn their bras the iconic feminists.]]></description>
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		<title>Home</title>
		<link>http://blog.rachaelstott.com/2010/04/home/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=home</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 15:23:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rae</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.rachaelstott.com/?p=973</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Home can mean so many things. It can mean our physical residence, our city, our country. Something can smell like home, feel like home, sound like home. We can consider a person to constitute our home. Our home could be where we were born or raised. The &#8216;home team&#8217; doesn&#8217;t mean the members all live [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lets talk about &#8230; My fine line</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 06:20:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rae</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a fine line, at least in my pretty little head, between submitting to someone else&#8217;s will and choosing to find happiness in someone else&#8217;s happiness. You might need to read that one again. It is a really, really, fine line. This is a really complicated issue. At least for me. The concept of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What I&#8217;m not</title>
		<link>http://blog.rachaelstott.com/2010/04/what-im-not/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=what-im-not</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 01:03:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rae</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some of my favorite bloggers posted recently what they are not. They both happen to be interesting authentic women who are in the &#8216;must read&#8217; section of my reader for a reason. Go check them out. I am not the tidiest person. My house will be presentable when people arrive (unless I consider you family, in which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lets talk about&#8230;sexiness</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 22:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rae</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks back, on my hens&#8217; night I witnessed a phenomenon I am only just beginning to grasp. Walking ahead of me (up the enormous hill that is William Street, Sydney) were 3 mid-20something happily coupled women. They were laughing, confident, natural and oozing sex appeal. While they passed scantily clad teenagers, it hit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lets talk about&#8230; body modification</title>
		<link>http://blog.rachaelstott.com/2010/03/lets-talk-about-body-modification/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=lets-talk-about-body-modification</link>
		<comments>http://blog.rachaelstott.com/2010/03/lets-talk-about-body-modification/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 21:27:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rae</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.rachaelstott.com/?p=899</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is such a wide and diverse topic. Controversial. Like boiling a frog we are comfortable with the gentle cooler manifestations of the practice, but are we in danger of boiling alive as the accepted mutilations become more extreme? Body modification is defined as the deliberate altering of the human body for non-medical reasons, such [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE Wait</title>
		<link>http://blog.rachaelstott.com/2010/02/the-wait/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=the-wait</link>
		<comments>http://blog.rachaelstott.com/2010/02/the-wait/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:17:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rae</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I hate it. You probably do too. I think I hate the wait more than the requisite pissing on the stick. You know the wait I am talking about. It is the oh-god-I-think-my-life-might-change-in-a-millisecond-once-this-5-minute-wait-is-up wait. If you are a sexually active woman, you have probably experienced this wait at least once. I mean, no contraception is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lets talk about&#8230;Housework</title>
		<link>http://blog.rachaelstott.com/2010/02/lets-talk-about-housework/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=lets-talk-about-housework</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 09:30:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rae</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ironic that of all the unspoken &#8216;women&#8217;s business&#8217; to discuss I begin with one of the backbones of the Feminine  Mystique. I can see the eyes roll &#8211; she thinks housework is more important to discuss than maternity leave?!? You may think that housework is not a real issue for women these days.  Well, the research says [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The laundry list of unspoken topics</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 21:23:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rae</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By nature these experiences fly in the face of the accepted bounds of womanhood. They aren&#8217;t expected of the innocent maiden, the loving wife or the nurturing mother. And let&#8217;s face it, society at large still has some difficulty dealing with femininity outside of those roles. These experiences have often been ascribed to the &#8216;undesirable&#8217; [...]]]></description>
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