The Resolute Woman

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  • A familiar room

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    Kirsten and Dieter are “dearest friends,” but they have differences of opinion. They have had the same argument for years until it became “something like a familiar room where they met,” writes Emily St. John Mandel in her book Station Eleven. My husband and I have some of those familiar rooms. Next time we disagree…

  • Clothes are armor

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    Miranda, who is 27 and divorced, is taking classes and looking for a job. She spends money on expensive clothes because she has “come to understand that clothes are armor,” writes Emily St. John Mandel in her book Station Eleven. And how are clothes used as armor? I asked myself that question when I read…

  • Something that needs love

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    “Perhaps, everything terrible is in its deepest being something that needs our love,” Rainer Maria Rike once said. I found this quote recently at Barnes & Nobles in a book called Quotes That Will Change Your Life by Russ Kick. –Joy

  • Summer escapes

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    My son was laid off from his job at an energy company recently. My daughter is traveling in Mexico. And, my dog has a slight heart murmur. I worry—even though I know that Jay has severance and savings and he will find a new job—and I know that Mary Elizabeth will be safe with her…

  • Don’t think too much

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    “The important thing is not to think much, but to love much and so to do what best awakens us to love,” St. Teresa of Avila once said. I found this quote recently at Barnes & Nobles in a book called Quotes That Will Change Your Life by Russ Kick. –Joy

  • Quotes to change your life?

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    I was leaving the Barnes & Nobles store in a hurry so that I wouldn’t be late to meet a friend when I noticed a book called Quotes That Will Change Your Life by Russ Kick. I paused just a moment and read the title again. Then, I rushed out of the store. Of course,…

  • A new friend and an old friend

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    I went to see Oliver Goldsmith’s play “She Stoops to Conquer” twice at Shakespeare in the Park in Dallas. And, I enjoyed watching the play and eating my chicken salad even more the second time. What Goldsmith once said about books applies to plays. “The first time I read an excellent book, it is to…

  • The brethren laughed heartily

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    In 1853, Sarah Grimke, abolitionist and feminist, was invited to sit in the chair of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. “As I took my place,” she said later, “I involuntarily exclaimed: ‘Who knows, but this chair may one day be occupied by a woman.’ The brethren laughed heartily.” In 1873, the Supreme Court…

  • Would you hire Ruth Bader Ginsburg?

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    In 1959, RBG graduated from Columbia Law at the top of her class, but she could barely get a job. No one wanted to hire a woman lawyer. In 1963, RBG became the second woman to teach full-time at Rutgers School of Law. She didn’t get paid as much as the men on the faculty.…

  • Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s push-ups

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    During an MSNBC interview, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, who is 83, was asked if she still does 20 push-ups every day. “Yes,” she replied, “but we do 10 at a time. And, then, I breathe for a bit, and do the second set.” Bryant Johnson, who has been Justice Ginsburg’s trainer for two…