The Resolute Woman

Author: resolutewoman

  • Sexism is a clear challenge

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    “Sexism still exerts a pull on our lives and our choices,” says Hillary Rodham Clinton. “It is a very subtle but clear challenge that has to be acknowledged and confronted. So we have to be doing all we can to open the aperture of understanding and acceptance.” We read about Hillary Clinton in the September…

  • Her first spacewalk

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    “All six of us in that first batch of women felt a self-imposed pressure,” says Kathryn Sullivan, the first American woman to walk in space. “We knew our performance would have a big influence on the prospects of the women who would come after us. I was thrilled to be tapped, but the ‘first female…

  • Edit often

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    I found these words displayed on the wall of Forest Meadow Junior High, where I go once a week to volunteer. “Your life is your story. Write well. Edit often.” –Joy

  • The glass ceiling

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    “She broke the glass ceiling,” writes Nancy Gibbs in the September 18, 2017, issue of Time magazine. “What a jagged image we use for women who achieve greatly, defining accomplishment in terms of the barrier rather than the triumph. “Talk to women about the forces that drive them and they hit notes of joy and…

  • The one who contributes nothing

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    Remember the middle-school project? In her book Short Stories by Jesus, Amy-Jill Levine talks about the middle-school student who doesn’t do his–or it could be “her,” of course–share of the project. Everyone else works hard, but he doesn’t do anything. “And what if he didn’t care at all? What if he depended on us, even…

  • The Three Ts

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    Dana Suskind lists the three Ts for interacting with a child in her book Thirty Million Words—tune in, talk more and take turns. I think her three Ts apply to successful interaction with children and adults. Here is Suskind’s brief explanation. “In order for the necessary serve-and-return of conversational interaction to be successful, there has…

  • Women’s work

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    Mechtilde of Hackeborn, born in 1240, entered the cloistered world when she was only seven. When she grew older, she taught children at the convent school, chanted the liturgy with the other nuns, helped with daily household tasks, which included spinning and embroidering. She also took care of the sick and helped the doctors with…

  • A woman mechanic in Iraq

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    Shadi Mohammed is an extraordinary mechanic in an ordinary garage in Sulaimani, Iraq. “I want to change the perception of society toward women and toward what they think women can do,” Mohammed, a 45-year-old woman, told USA Today in its July 25, 2017, issue. “Show them that women are also capable of running a garage…

  • Be radical!?

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    “A radical is a man (or a woman) with both feet firmly planted in the air,” President Franklin Roosevelt once said.

  • Let go

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    You can’t control everything—although I often try to. “We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us,” Joseph Campbell once said. –Joy