The Resolute Woman

Author: resolutewoman

  • Small things and love

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    Reading Claire Keegan’s book Small Things Like These reminded me of a quote from Mother Teresa—one of my favorite quotes. “ Not all of us can do great things. But, we can do small things with great love.” –Joy

  • Questions and answers

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    I found this quote in a museum in Guanajuato, Mexico, and thought about it as I finished reading Claire Keegan’s book Small Things Like These. “A work of art does not answer questions. It provokes them, and its essential meaning is the tension between contradictory answers,” the musician Leonard Bernstein once said. –Joy

  • The value of a friend

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    As Cervantes writes in Don Quixote, “He (or she) who loses wealth, loses much. He (or she) who loses a friend, loses more.” I visited the Cervantes Museum in Guanajuato, Mexico, recently and was inspired to read Don Quixote again. –Joy

  • The truth

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    As Cervantes writes in Don Quixote, “The truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks. It always surfaces above lies, as oil floats on water.” We hope what Cervantes says is true today in the age of splintered media. I visited the Cervantes Museum in Guanajuato, Mexico, recently and was inspired to read Don…

  • The Right Fight

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    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…

  • Focus on the work

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    “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…

  • The story of a Black woman

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    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.

  • Women’s business

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    “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

  • New Year’s Resolutions?

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    I haven’t made my New Year’s Resolutions yet. I am thinking about them, but I am procrastinating. I found an interesting quote that I am pondering. It’s by anonymous. “Every year you make a resolution to change yourself. This year, make a resolution to be yourself.” –Joy

  • Christmas is over

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    I am almost through undecorating the Christmas tree. A fun trip and a nasty virus put me behind schedule. However, even after the all of the Christmas decorations are stored away, I promise to remember what Scrooge said: “I will honour Christmas in my heart and try to keep it all the year. I will…