The Resolute Woman

Category: beauty

  • I could lie to you

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    I found this quote in the March 25, 2013, issue of Adweek, which had reprinted it from The Guardian. “I could lie to you if you want and say we are interested in their brains as well. We are not. They are objectified,” said Esquire U.K. editor Alex Bilmer when he commented on the magazine’s…

  • A real-life Barbie doll

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    We were sad when we read about Valeria Lukyanova, the 23-year-old Ukranian woman who wants to look like a real-life Barbie doll, in the March 8, 2013, issue of The Week. This young woman has undergone extensive cosmetic to create almond-shaped eyes and a huge bust that tapers to a 17-inch waist. To maintain her…

  • Happy spring!

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    Whenever I see daffoldils, I think about my mother, who loved the beautiful yellow flowers. My mother, an English major, went to college when students were required to memorize poetry. Whenever she saw a daffodil, she would recite William Wordworth’s poem. I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o’er vales and hills,…

  • Pretty, glamorous and sparkly-eyed

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    A number of people in Great Britain  are in an uproar over the first official portrait of the Duchess of Cambridge. However, Kate, who chose artist Paul Emsley to paint her portrait, likes it. The critics are those who want a portrait that looks conventionally pretty, says Andrew Eaton-Lewis in “Scotland on Sunday,” as reported…

  • Beauty and wealth

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    Lady Almina, the fifth Countess of Carnarvon, was fortunate. Even though her social standing was “dubious” because she was “the illegitimate daughter of a Jewish banker and his French kept woman,” Lady Almina was beautiful, explains the current Countess of Carnarvon in her book Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abby. Lady Almina, of course,…

  • I am who I am

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    We’ve been talking to other women about our soon-to-be-published book The Resolute Woman, and we’ve been inspired by the advice they’ve shared with us. My friend Bonnie shared this quote with me. “I am who I am; I look the way I look; I am my age.” We’re not sure who said these words. I…

  • Beautiful and brainy

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    During the 1940s, the public relations department at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer promoted movie star Hedy Lamarr as “the most beautiful woman in the world.” But Hedy had brains and beauty. Together with composer George Antheil, she invented spread-spectrum radio, the technology that made wireless phones, GPS systems and many other devices possible. In his book Hedy’s Folly—the…

  • A different kind of beauty

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    In her book Wild—From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, Cheryl Strayed tells how startled she was when she looked into a mirror after three weeks hiking the Pacific Crest Trail. She looked like “a woman who had been the victim of a violent and bizarre crime,” she writes. “Bruises that ranged in…

  • Ever looked at a magazine at the airport?

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    Have you ever stopped to look at the women on the covers of the magazines at the newsstand at the airport terminal? We’re talking about all those photos of celebrities and models who are very beautiful and very slim and very young. They’re “flawless,” says the website MissRepresentation.org, which promotes the documentary “Miss Representation.” The…

  • Wisdom from Emily Dickinson

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    “I’ll tell you how the sun rose a ribbon at a time,” Emily Dickinson wrote. In another poem, she said, “The moon was but a chin of gold a night or two ago.” And, one autumn day, Emily observed, “The morns are meeker than they were, the nuts are getting brown; the berry’s cheek is…