The Resolute Woman

Author: resolutewoman

  • A world without sun

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    “Robbing the world of friendship is like robbing the world of sun,” Cicero said in 44 BCE. I found this quote in the book The Social Sex—A History of Female Friendship by Marilyn Yalom with Theresa Donovan Brown. Of course, Cicero believed only men were capable of friendship—not women! –Joy

  • Keep moving

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    “The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day,” Gloria Steinem stresses. “A movement is only people moving.” We found that quote in The Week, and the magazine reprinted it from Bustle.com.

  • In the world

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    “Most people are on the world, not in it,” John Muir once said.

  • This is your world

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    “I am out to sing songs that will prove to you that this is your world,” Woody Guthrie once said, “and that, if it has hit you pretty hard and knocked you for a dozen loops, no matter what color, what size you are, how you are built, I am out to sing the songs…

  • Take it easy

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    “Take it easy—but take it,” Woody Guthrie once said. I found that quote recently when I visited the Woody Guthrie Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma. –Joy

  • A dirt path

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    I saw this message on a sign in a gift shop in Bar Harbor, Maine. “Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.” –Joy

  • Malala’s going to Oxford

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    Malala’s going to be an Oxford scholar. The antiquarian print of an Oxford scholar hanging in my office—purchased years ago when I visited England—shows a male student in a red robe. Malala Yousafza, 20 now, doesn’t fit the stereotype of an Oxford scholar or a Muslim young woman. And, she’s not interested in doing what…

  • Breaking the glass ceiling

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    Lisa Roe will be the first woman chancellor at the University of North Texas, the university where my daughter teaches. The Dallas Morning News announced on August 17, 2017, “UNT Breaks Glass Ceiling.” Roe, NASA’s acting deputy administrator, has worked on 38 space missions and held numerous executive posts at the space agency. Concluded the…

  • Enough women?

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    “When will there be enough women on the Supreme Court?” a BBC reporter asked Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg recently month on National Public Radio. “When there are nine women,” R.B.G. answered, smiling and explaining that for too many years there were nine men on the court.

  • Architect, designer and decorator

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    Mary Elizabeth Jane Colter was the chief architect and decorator for the Fred Harvey Company from 1902 to 1948. In the Grand Canyon, she created a number of showcases—the Desert View Watchtower, the Bright Angel Lodge and the Lookout Studio. Colter left her mark on the La Fonda Hotel in Santa Fe when she helped…