The Resolute Woman

Author: resolutewoman

  • Why shouldn’t women vote?

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    During the summer of 1920, the anti-suffragettes offered plenty of reasons. “I would rather see my daughter in a coffin than at the polls,” one father exclaimed during floor debate in Little Rock. And, the liquor industry feared the “dry” ladies who want to enforce Prohibition, Elaine Weiss reports in her book The Woman’s Hour.…

  • Three kinds of patriots

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    “There are three kinds of patriots, two bad and one good,” said William Sloane Coffin. “The bad ones are the uncritical lovers and the loveless critics. Good patriots carry on a lover’s quarrel with their country.” Coffin was a minister and long-time peace activist.

  • Hope

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    “Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible,” said William Sloane Coffin. Coffin was a minister and long-time peace activist.

  • Love and truth

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    “The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything by love,” said William Sloane Coffin. Sloane was a minister and long-time peace activist.

  • Almost 500 petitions

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    On the first Tuesday of November 1872, more than 150 women around the country, including Susan Anthony, tried to vote. Susan Anthony was arrested, but she didn’t give up. “Failure is impossible,” she told her followers. Finally, in August 1920, Tennessee voted for ratification of the 19th Amendment and women were given the right to…

  • Flowers in the morning

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    I still enjoy my early morning walks, and I am leaving my house even earlier now that it’s warmer in Dallas. It is good to be outside and see the flowers and the trees and the sky. As Van Gogh said, “If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.” –Joy ”

  • Change?

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    “What the ego hates more than anything else in the world is to change—even when the present situation is not working or is horrible,” writes Richard Rohr in his book Breathing Under Water. “Instead, we do more and more of what does not work, and many others have rightly said about addicts, and I would…

  • Try and not try

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    “We must both try and not try, we must both ‘care and not care,’ as poet T.S. Eliot puts it,” write Richard Rohr in his book Breathing Under Water. “By personal temperament, you will start on one side or the other, but finally you must build the bridge between the two.”

  • Forgiveness

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    Forgiveness is to let go of our hope for a different past, write Richard Rohr in his book Breathing Under Water. “It is what it is, and such acceptance leads to great freedom.”

  • Long term or short term?

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    “Prevention is physically rewarding in the long term, but not emotionally rewarding in the short term,” wrote Ed Yong in the May 20, 2020, issue of The Atlantic. “People who stay home won’t feel a pleasant dopamine kick from their continued health. Those who flock together will feel hugs and sunshine. The former will be…