The Resolute Woman

Category: change

  • Women

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    “Women are the largest untapped reservoir of talent in the world,” Hillary Clinton says.

  • We are in this together

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    “Our unity is our strength, and our diversity is our power. We reject the myth of us vs. them. We are in this together,” Kamala Harris says.

  • Good, fair and just

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    Let us cling to hope. “The truth is that the vast majority of Americans are good, fair and just, and they want their country to reflect those ideals,” Kamala Harris once said.

  • Infinite

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    If only everyone could see the world as I see it?! If only everyone shared the same facts!? “If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite,” William Blake once said. –Joy

  • Pay attention

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    “Attentiveness is the heart’s stillness, unbroken by any thought,” Hesychios of Sinai once said. I found this quote in Into the Silent Land by Martin Laird. –Joy

  • Discrimination

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    Project 2025, reports Ms. Magazine, calls for the next president to rescind executive orders signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson in the mid-1960s. These orders prohibited federal contractors from discriminating on the basis of race and sex.

  • Abstinence only

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    Project 2025, reports Ms. Magazine, would allow only abstinence-based sex education—a notoriously ineffective approach. It also would eliminate the requirement that sex education programs be evidence based.

  • The misogynist manifesto

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    In its fall 2024 issue, Ms. magazine calls Project 2025 “the misogynist manifesto.” Project 2025, for example, “directs the president to develop policies and programs to maintain a biblically based, social science-reinforced definition of marriage and family.” The document explains: “For the sake of child well-being, programs should affirm that children require and deserve both…

  • The time is now

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    In her autobiography The Truths We Hold, Kamala Harris quotes James Baldwin: “There is never a time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment. The time is now.”

  • Too many books?

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    I am—reluctantly—trying to get rid of a few books. Too many books? Impossible, said Umberton Eco, Italian writer and philosopher. He owned 50,000 books! “”It is foolish to think that you have to read all the books you buy, as it is foolish to criticize those who buy more books than they will ever be…