The Resolute Woman

Author: resolutewoman

  • Let’s work together

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    L Grandma Moses, the American folk artist, once said, “Life is what you make it. Always has been. Always will be.” I have always liked that quote. Today, we all need to work together—a little harder than we have been—to make the world a better place. –Joy

  • Radhya Almutawakel

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    I didn’t know her name until I read about her in the April 29 issue of Time magazine. Radhya Almutawakel is the co-founder of Mwatana, an organization that documents human-rights abuses in Yemen. Yemen, she says, faces the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, not because of a natural disaster, but because of man-made armed conflict. “Yemenis…

  • It’s time to act

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    I recently marched in the streets of downtown Dallas for reproductive rights. Our rights to safe, legal abortions are threatened. It’s time to take action. March in the streets. Write letters to Austin and Washington—to those men who are trying to take away our rights. Give money to Planned Parenthood and other organizations. –Joy

  • Marching

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    I have been saying for months that we all should be marching in the streets. On Saturday, my friend Dory and I marched—in downtown Dallas—for reproductive rights. As we marched, we shouted, “Our bodies. Our choice.” I marched because I believe that every woman should have the right to decide when she will have children.…

  • Dragons can be defeated

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    “Fairy tales are true,” says Rachel Held Evans in her book Inspired. “Not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be defeated.”

  • Nothing to prove

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    “There is nothing to prove and nothing to protect,” says Richard Rohr, the Franciscan priest and author. “I am who I am and it’s enough.”

  • Black and white?

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    “The dualistic mind presumes that if you criticize something, you don’t love it,” says Richard Rohr, the Franciscan priest and author. “Wise people, like prophets, would say the opposite.”

  • Keep reading

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    I love this quote! “If you are going to get anywhere in life, you have to read a lot of books,” Roald Dahl once said. Books certainly have taken me on lots of adventures and to lots of places. –Joy

  • Infinite dignity and worth

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    “The soul is the piece of us that gives each person infinite dignity and worth,” writes David Brooks in his new book. “Slavery is wrong because it obliterates a soul. Rape is not just an assault on physical molecules; it obliterates another soul. The soul yearns for goodness.” Brooks’ new book is The Second Mountain—The…

  • We are loving creatures

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    “The heart is that piece of us that longs for fusion with others,” writes David Brooks in his new book. “We are not primarily thinking creatures; we are primarily loving and desiring creatures. We are defined by what we desire. We become what we love.” Brooks’ new book is The Second Mountain—The Quest for a…