The Resolute Woman

Author: resolutewoman

  • Give someone a hug

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    As Winnie the Pooh once said, “A hug is always the right size.”

  • We all must have justice

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    “Equal rights, fair play, justice—are all like air,” Maya Angelou once said. “We all have it, or none of us has it.”

  • Creating yourself

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    I found this Bob Dylan quote in The Week—and someone on The Week staff found it in The Minneapolis Star! ”Life isn’t about finding yourself, or finding anything. Life is about creating yourself and creating things.” –Joy

  • How long until we see?

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    Yes, and how many times can a man turn his headAnd pretend that he just doesn’t see? The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind.The answer is blowin’ in the wind. Those are words from Bob Dylan, of course, and they were written decades ago. I recently visited the new Bob Dylan Center in…

  • How long until we’re free?

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    And how many years can some people existBefore they’re allowed to be free?The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind.The answer is blowin’ in the wind. Those are words from Bob Dylan, of course, and they were written decades ago. I recently visited the new Bob Dylan Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma. –Joy

  • Blowin’ in the wind

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    Yes, and how many times must the cannonballs flyBefore they’re forever banned? The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind.The answer is blowin’ in the wind. Those are words from Bob Dylan, of course, and they were written decades ago. We are still killing each other. The answer is still blowing in the wind.

  • Pants only!?

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    The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit ruled that a North Carolina charter school can’t keep girls from wearing pants—and force them to wear only skirts, skorts or jumpers. The school founder claimed that the uniform rules promote chivalry “based on the view that girls are fragile vessels deserving of gentle treatment by…

  • Work to be done

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    On Juneteenth, Opal Lee, the woman who campaigned to make June 19 a national holiday, said: “Juneteenth is freedom, but we are not free until all of us are free. There’s still work to be done.”

  • Hell on women and horses

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    It’s hot in Texas this summer, which reminds me of some wise words from the writer Molly Ivins. In an article in the August 1987 issue of Ms. magazine, Ivins wrote: “They used to say that Texas was hell on women and horses. Don’t know why they stopped. It still is.” –Joy

  • Major battles for women’s rights

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    “One thing is certain,” the Ms. Foundation declared in a mailing. “Whether we’re dealing with the overturn of Roe v. Wade by the Supreme Court stacked with Trump-appointed justices—or overcoming the final barriers to enshrining the Equal Rights Amendment in the Constitution, we simply must be prepared for what is nothing less than major battles…