The Resolute Woman

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  • Why Susan Anthony quit school

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    Susan B. Anthony, who campaigned for women’s right to vote and was arrested in 1872 for trying to vote, stopped going to school when her teacher refused to teach her long division because she was a girl. “Maybe the male teacher felt girls didn’t need to learn such advanced math,” says Mary Kay Carson in…

  • On the road with Gloria Steinem

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    I just started listening to Gloria Steinem’s new book My Life on the Road. I’ll write more about it when I finish it. But there’s a quote from Ms. Steinem, who is 81, and still traveling, that I want to share now. “When people ask me why I still have hope and energy after all…

  • What is Grit?

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    Grit is the secret to success, conclude Linda Kaplan Thaler and Robin Koval in their new book Grit to Great. They say grit has four essential components. Guts—the courage to take on a tough challenge Resilience—the ability to stay focused and motivated Initiative—the quality of that leads you to be a self-starter Tenacity—the relentless ability…

  • Grit to Great

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    “Passion and perseverance, it turns out, matter more than talent or intelligence when it comes to being successful,” argue Linda Kaplan Thaler and Robin Koval in their new book Grit to Great. “Grit has been equated more with methodical stick-to-it-iveness and survival than any secret ingredient to success….Grit is the result of a hard-fought struggle,…

  • A walk in the park?

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    “If you wake up in the morning and you have a choice between doing laundry and taking a walk in the park, go for the walk,” says Christine Lee. “You’d hate to die and realize you have spent your last day doing laundry.” Christine Lee is one of the women whose photograph is featured in…

  • In spite of myself

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    “The supreme happiness of life,” Victor Hugo once said, “is the conviction of being loved for yourself, or, more correctly, in spite of yourself.” I found this quote in a book called On Friendship—A Selection. The book was edited by Louise Bachelder. –Joy

  • A Heaven full of friends

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    “My only sketch, profile of Heaven is a large blue sky, and larger than the biggest I have seen in June—and, in it, are my friends—every one of them.” That’s a quote from Emily Dickinson. I found it in a book called On Friendship—A Selection. The book was edited by Louise Bachelder. –Joy

  • Leathery old scales

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    Dulcie doesn’t want to go on a trip. “Oh, but I couldn’t possibly!” she says. “I don’t travel any more, you know. I haven’t had my hair done.” But Anna insists that she should, and Dulcie has a “wonderful” time. “You have taken the leathery old scales from my eyes,” Dulcie says. I am going…

  • What’s our duty?

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    “All his life he’s been longing for company and nobody has wanted him….He has no charm and he knows it. Can’t connect. Can’t hear people thinking,” says Dulcie. “Can’t help being what he is. He knows that nobody ever liked him. Haven’t I a duty to him?” Fayteen and I both know people who, for…

  • A performance or a march?

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    Elsie “was so beautiful….Chinese. Ageless. Paris thrown in. Perfect French. Poise….” For Elsie, “life was a performance. “For Betty, it was a tremendous march. A brave and glorious and, well, comical, sometimes endurance. All governed by love.” A performance or a march? Which best describes your life? Elsie and Betty are two of the characters…