The Resolute Woman

Author: resolutewoman

  • Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s push-ups

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    During an MSNBC interview, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, who is 83, was asked if she still does 20 push-ups every day. “Yes,” she replied, “but we do 10 at a time. And, then, I breathe for a bit, and do the second set.” Bryant Johnson, who has been Justice Ginsburg’s trainer for two…

  • When my mother was born

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    I’ve been thinking about the fact that, when my mother was born, women couldn’t vote in the United States. When I was born, women couldn’t serve on juries in Texas. Women finally were allowed to serve on juries in this state in 1954. Now, a woman is running for president as the candidate of one…

  • Just get started

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    Timothy Pychyl, a professor at Carleton University in Ottawa, calls procrastination a coping mechanism gone awry in which people “give in to feel good.” When you feel tempted to procrastinate, the best thing you can do is to remember that you don’t have to be in the mood to do the task, Pychyl says. What…

  • The nights of work

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    I’m sharing another quote from Maya Angelou. It’s one that my friend Lynn shared with me. “The nights of work, the hours of hope amount at last to this day of joy,” Angelou once said. –Joy

  • Flair and laughter

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    My friend Lynn received two cards with quotes from Maya Angelou and shared them with me. One says: “Determine to live life with flair and laughter.” I’ll share the second quote in our next blog post. –Joy

  • Beat your wife “lightly”

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    Pakistan’s most populated province approved a law that gives women protection from abusive husbands. However, the country’s Council of Islamic Ideology strongly opposes the new law, reported The Dallas Morning News in its May 27 issue. The council has drafted a proposal that husbands should be allowed to “lightly beat” their wives.

  • The glory of football

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    An independent investigation concluded that Baylor University’s “response to students who reported sexual assaults was woefully inadequate,” according to the May 27, 2016, issue of The Dallas Morning News. As a result, Baylor demoted its president and suspended its football coach. “I think the message…should be a message that the safety and the well-being of…

  • Two birthdays every year?

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    Queen Elizabeth II celebrated her birthday in April on the anniversary of the day she was born, but she’s celebrating again in June with an “official” birthday. The tradition of two birthdays started in 1748 with George II, who was born in November. He decided that November was too cold for his annual birthday parade.…

  • Keep growing

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    No matter who we are, we have to keep changing, growing—even when it’s easier to stay the way we are. “Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow,” Goethe once said.

  • Thinking is easy

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    Whatever you can do, Goethe said, begin it. Action is powerful—but often it’s not easy to act, Goethe admitted. He once said: “Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one’s thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.”