Category: resolute-women
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Speak the truth
Vice President Kamala Harris talks about truth in her autobiography The Truths We Hold. “We cannot solve our most intractable problems unless we are honest about what they are, unless we are willing to have difficult conversations and accept what facts make plain. “We need to speak truth: that racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia and anti-Semitism…
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It’s exciting!
A Black woman is going to be president of the United States! Maybe? We hope. I am reminded of a quote from Georgia O’Keeffe. “Kick your heels in the air! Isn’t it exciting?!” O’Keeffe once said. –Joy
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Cease being afraid
I am cleaning! Throwing away papers. But, I found this quote that’s worth keeping—and repeating. “I would like…to see us take hold of ourselves, look at ourselves and cease being afraid,” Eleanor Roosevelt once said. –Joy
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Happy Birthday, Jane Goodall
Jane Goodall celebrated her 90th birthday on April 3, 2024. “I’ve spent my life working with and for animals. I was born loving them and wanting to learn about them,” Goodall said. “I’m sure all of you will agree; you can’t spend time with an animal and not know that we are not the only…
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Your power
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any,” says the author Alice Walker.
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The Right Fight
Eddie Bernice Johnson “taught me that the fight for good is rarely easy, but it is always right,” Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins said in his eulogy for Eddie Bernice Johnson. Eddie Bernice Johnson overcame many of the obstacles faced by women and by Black women to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives from…
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Focus on the work
“One of the things she taught me: ‘Don’t focus on the title, focus on the work,’’’ Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins said in his eulogy for Eddie Bernice Johnson. Eddie Bernice Johnson overcame many of the obstacles faced by women and by Black women to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1993 to…
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The story of a Black woman
Eddie Bernice Johnson, who served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1993 to 2023, overcame many of the obstacles faced by Black women.
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Women’s business
“All issues are women’s business, and there are several that are just women’s issues,” Eddie Bernice Johnson once said. Johnson, who died recently, served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1993 to 2023. She was the first registered nurse to serve in Congress. –Joy
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Noise
Panchita, Isabel Allende’s mother, once said, “Everything can be handled elegantly and without noise.” Isabel disagreed. “There’s no feminism without noise,” she writes. I just read Allende’s book The Soul of a Woman. Some of the book is very interesting, and some of it is not so interesting. –Joy