Joan Barfoot
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58 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2026
last heard 3 Aug
Joan Barfoot’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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carrying a baby saying, please take my sister, a little baby.
And you know, whatever else is going on here, nothing like that happens here.
And you think, but for a crapshoot of just... It really is a crapshoot to whom you're born
where you're born, what century you're born in, and specifically female, as a woman, I think, man, I hit it lucky to be sort of the 60s onward, to be a repellent boomer, but just totally lucked out.
So, I mean, particularly as a woman, but also all the guys, too, were just lucky.
And we should probably try to know that every day.
I read her...
When I was in late high school, I guess, and I was growing up in Owen Sound, I had spent like 17, 18 years planning to get out of Owen Sound, so I was near to achieving my goal.
But I hung out at the library a great deal, and I...
worked my way really pompously, I'm sure, through all the Russians, all those great men in the tundra and the blah, blah, blood on the snow, as I used to call it.
And it seemed to me at that time, in that place, that writers were... Well, for one thing, they were male.
For another thing, they were dead.
and they were far away.
So Margaret Lawrence was a discovery in the reading just because she wasn't dead, and that was... I had no idea then of becoming a writer because I just had it in my head that they were dead.
And they certainly weren't Canadian, and almost certainly they weren't women, because I hadn't read women until I read Margaret.
And then I thought,
Blunt can be elsewhere.
It can be in the kitchen.
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