The Resolute Woman

Author: resolutewoman

  • A Thousand Lives

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    Some good friends gave me a Spiritile—a magnificent tile made of copper, glass and wood. Mine glimmers with a picture of a stack of colorful books. Along the side of the books is this quote: “A reader lives a thousand lives.”—George R.R. Martin –Joy

  • Letting go of books

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    While my shattered femur has been healing, I have been inspired to do a little cleaning. I’ve been sorting through old business and personal papers—and even getting rid of some of the books that I’ve accumulated through the years. I was comforted when I found an article that I had saved from 2006. “Letting go…

  • A good book awaiting me

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    “Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes the day happier,” said Kathleen Norris. And this has been especially true when I’ve been home for days with a broken leg. I found Kathleen Norris’ quote on stationery for book lovers. –Joy

  • A state of tolerance

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    “There are few prophets in the world; few sublimely beautiful women; few heroes,” says George Eliot in her novel Adam Bede. “I can’t afford to give all my love and reverence to such rarities: I want a great deal of those feelings for my every-day fellowmen, especially for the few in the foreground…whose faces I…

  • Appreciation for simple pleasures

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    My husband Jerry and I were sitting in one of our favorite Mexican restaurants carefully surveying the menu—even though we knew that we would order the same thing we always order at that particular restaurant. All of a sudden, I blurted out, “I think I’m going to cry.” “Why?” Jerry asked, looking puzzled. “Because,” I…

  • Warm or Competent?

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    Age may have some advantages, wrote Liza Mundy in an article in the Sunday, July 5, 2015, issue of The Dallas Morning News. Feminist scholars have found that women seen as displaying traditionally feminine traits are viewed as warm but not competent. However, women who deviate from traditional femininity—like working women—are seen as competent but…

  • Beware of security

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    “Beware of security as a goal,” William Zinsser told graduates of Wesleyan University in 1988. “It may often look like life’s best prize. Usually it’s not.” Zinsser, the author of On Writing Well, died earlier this year.

  • Be your best

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    Try to be your best—not the best, says Kay Wills Wyma, author of I’m Happy for You (Sort of…Not Really): Finding Contentment in a Culture of Comparison. And always remember that most people are so consumed with themselves that they aren’t looking at you. I heard Wyma discuss her book in an interview on “Think”…

  • Fat is relative

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    “I wish I were as fat as I was the first time I thought I was fat,” says Kay Wills Wyma, author of I’m Happy for You (Sort of…Not Really): Finding Contentment in a Culture of Comparison. I heard Wyma discuss her book in an interview on “Think” on KERA National Public Radio.

  • Misty Copeland, Resolute Woman

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    Misty Copeland recently was named the first African-American woman to be a principal dancer at the American Ballet Theatre. “I had moments of doubting myself, and wanting to quit, because I didn’t know that there would be a future for an African-American woman to make it to this level,” Ms. Copeland said at a news…