minding

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She is the author of “Bad Feminist,” “Hunger” and “Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People’s Business,” among other works, and the founder of the Audacious Book Club.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026

Minding her step amid sections of a yet-assembled wedding tent, she chimed in that the production “has pushed the Warehouse farther than it’s ever been.”

From New York Times • May 11, 2023

Minding the construction, cross the street and follow diagonal Loyal Way southeast toward Loyal Heights.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 14, 2021

Minding one’s own business used to mean staying out of trouble and leaving others alone — a round-trip ticket to work and home without fear of menace.

From Washington Post • Dec. 22, 2020

“Oh... a little old churchgoing ammooma, quiet and clean... idi appams for breakfast, kanji and meen for lunch. Minding her own business. Not looking right or left.”

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy