The Resolute Woman

Author: resolutewoman

  • The Big Fat Lie

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    Weight loss does not depend on exercise, says cardiologist Aseem Malhotra in an article in the May 31, 2015, issue of The Dallas Morning News. “Exercise–no matter how many gym memberships you buy or how often you wear your Fitbit–won’t make you lose weight….Curbing the global obesity problem will require changing what we eat, not…

  • Joy and well-being

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    Relationships are the strongest single predictor of joy and well-being, says Dr. Sue Johnson in her book Love Sense. “Ever since social scientists started systematically studying happiness, it has been resoundingly clear that deep and stable relationships make for happy and stable individuals.”

  • Someone a little nicer

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    “What’s the best political advice you have ever received?” Michael Duffy asked Barbara Bush, wife of the first President Bush. “Be yourself. Well, maybe someone a little nicer,” answered Barbara Bush in an interview in the June 15, 2015, issue of Time magazine.

  • Running a marathon at 92

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    Did you hear about Harriette Thompson, age 92, who finished a marathon in San Diego in 7 hours, 24 minutes and 36 seconds? Yes, she’s 92, according to an article in the June 1, 2015, issue of The Dallas Morning News. Thompson is the oldest woman to finish a marathon—and definitely a Resolute Woman. She’s…

  • Dreaming is planning

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    I like this quote from Gloria Steinem. “Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.” –Joy

  • Keep your little dreams

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    For her high school yearbook, the author Judy Blume chose this quotation to appear next to her photo, according to an article in The New York Times Magazine on May 24, 2015. “Keep a place in your heart for little dreams to go.”

  • Live for your dreams

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    I head this quote on “The Takeaway” on National Public Radio on May 25, 2015, when the show featured a panel of African writers. One of the writers said: “People should live for their dreams—not for their nightmares.” Joy

  • People who matter stay with us

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    Vivian’s “losses have piled one on another like layers of shale. Even if her mother lived, she would be dead now, the people who adopted her are dead. Her husband is dead. She has no children,” writes Christina Baker Kline in the book The Orphan Train. But Vivian knows “the people who matter in our…

  • Be a bit bendy

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    Lucy, Tess’ mother, gives her daughter advice about marriage. “Sometimes I look back and think, goodness me, we took our feelings so seriously,” says Lucy in Liane Moriarity’s book The Husband’s Secret. She’s talking about her marriage and why she divorced Tess’s father. “Everything was black-and-white. We got into our positions and that was that.…

  • Keep learning

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    Tess is forced to analyze what has happened to her relationship with her husband in Liane Moriarity’s book The Husband’s Secret. “It seemed to her everyone had too much self-protective pride to truly strip down to their souls in front of their long-term partners,” Tess thinks to herself. “It was easier to pretend that there…