Author: resolutewoman
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Enlarge your world
I just visited Washington, D.C., with Bob Woodward when I read Rage, and, before that trip, I visited the forests of California with Robert Powers when I read The Overstory. I am thankful for books during this pandemic! “There are many little ways to enlarge your world. Love of books is the best of all,” Jacqueline…
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Ease is the disease
“Ease is the disease….Once you’ve bought a novel in your pajamas, there’s no turning back,” writes Richard Powers in The Overstory.
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A good story
“The best arguments in the world won’t change a person’s mind. The only thing that can do that is a good story,” writes Richard Powers in The Overstory.
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People who are difficult
“I don’t enjoy normal, high functioning people,” Frederik Backman, the author of a new book called Anxious People, said recently during an Arts & Letters Live virtual presentation. “When I meet other people who are normal and happy and content, I don’t like them. I like people who are difficult, who march to the beat…
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Look into nature
I am feeling anxious about the elections and the pandemic, but I always feel more peaceful after my morning walk—especially when the weather turns cooler and the leaves turn yellow and orange and red. As Albert Einstein once said, “Look deep into nature and then you will understand everything better.” –Joy
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A girl with a book
“Never underestimate the power of a girl with a book,” Ruth Bader Ginsberg once said. I’m going to honor Ruth Bader Ginsberg by encouraging girls I know to read a book, get lots of years of education and fight for justice.
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We dissent
Someone in Minneapolis rested a homemade sign in a chair on her lawn. “Rest in peace. RBG,” it read. “We’ll take it from here.” “I dissent,” Ruth Bader Ginsberg said. We need to dissent—and keep up RBG’s fight for equal rights and justice.
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Fight like RBG
“Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you,” Ruth Bader Ginsberg once said.
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Women belong
“Women belong in all the places where decisions are being made,” Ruth Bader Ginsberg once said.