The Resolute Woman

Author: resolutewoman

  • Thin love

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    “Love is or it ain’t,” Toni Morrison once said. “Thin love ain’t love at all.” Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, “a giant of modern literature,” died August 5, 2019.

  • Reach back and help someone

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    “Our greatness has always come from people who expect nothing and take nothing for granted–folks who work hard for what they have, then reach back and help others after them,” Michelle Obama once said.

  • This terrible strain of forgetting

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    “Forgetting the past, or refusing to see it, to understand it and to grapple with it, is as sure a path as there is to tearing the present apart,” The Dallas Morning News editorial staff wrote on August 7, 2019. “It seems that today, as we mourn the death of the novelist Toni Morrison, we…

  • The courage to fly

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    “You wanna fly. You got to give up the shit that weighs you down,” Toni Morrison once said. Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, “a giant of modern literature,” died August 5, 2019.

  • Mistakes

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    “Once I thought I was wrong, but I was mistaken.” That quote is on an embroidered plaque that my niece Alicia made. The message reminds me that I’m not wrong if I learn something from whatever I did. Perfection is not required! –Joy

  • Thank you!

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    I am about to have a birthday. This year I feel thankful. Thankful for friends and family. And for my dog, Jack. For summer trip and summer books. For morning walks and juicy peaches. Shakespeare said, “I can no other answer make, but thanks and thanks and ever thanks.” –Joy

  • Summer reading

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    Summer is a wonderful time for reading a good book. Henry Stevens once said, “Books are both our luxuries and our daily bread.” We found that quote in the Interabang Books online newsletter.

  • Things that matter

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    “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter,” Martin Luther King once said. I found this quote recently when I visited the “With Liberty and Justice for All” exhibit at the Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation in Detroit. –Joy

  • Complete equality

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    “There will never be complete equality until women themselves help to make the laws and elect lawmakers,” Susan B. Anthony once said. I found this quote recently when I visited the “With Liberty and Justice for All” exhibit at the Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation in Detroit. –Joy

  • Equal opportunities

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    “All human beings should have equal opportunities,” Rosa Parks once said. While I was in Detroit recently at the Henry Ford Museum, I sat in the bus that Rosa Parks sat in when she refused to move to the back. –Joy