The Resolute Woman

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  • Wisdom from Cheryl Strayed

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    Her hiking boots were too small. “My feet were dotted with an ever-increasing number of blisters,” reported Cheryl Strayed. “I sat in the dirt examining them, knowing there was little I could do to prevent the blisters from going from bad to worse.” Her backpack was much too heavy. “My hips and shoulders were covered…

  • The struggle for dignity

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    Horton Foote won an Oscar for Best Screenplay for To Kill a Mockingbird and wrote many plays about the struggles of ordinary people. In his biography Horton Foote—America’s Storyteller, author Wilborn Hampton explains that, while he was growing up in Wharton, Texas, Foote listened and “stored away all of the stories that would one day…

  • Why do people love you?

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    When Eleanor Roosevelt died, the United Nations held a memorial service, and representatives from 110 countries stood for a minute of silent tribute. The New York Times pronounced this remarkable woman “one of the great ladies in the history of the country.” However, Roosevelt, the only daughter of an alcoholic father and a beautiful, aloof…

  • Intellectual companionship

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    People wondered why the dashing Franklin Delano Roosevelt married Eleanor. “What lay behind the mutual attraction between the smooth, handsome youth and the old-maidish young woman?” asks Joseph Persico in his book Franklin & Lucy—President Roosevelt, Mrs. Rutherford and the Other Remarkable Women in His Life. Persico’s answer? “In Eleanor, he found a different sort…

  • “There is work to do”

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    On December 1, 1955, when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white male passenger on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, she signaled the start of the modern-day civil rights movement. Many people don’t realize that Parks had worked for equal rights many years before that day in 1955, and she continued…

  • Moving forward into the future

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    In the introduction to the 2005 edition of Through the Narrow Gate, Karen Armstrong, a British author of 12 books, remembers that the first draft of this book was filled with anger. Armstrong was writing about her six years in a Roman Catholic convent, and those years were filled with struggles and pain that she…

  • What kind of supporting actress are you?

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    I couldn’t resist buying the little book with a bright yellow cover—The Power of Nice—How to Conquer the Business World with Kindness by Linda Kaplan Thaler and Robin Koval. It wasn’t a very nice reaction, but I immediately thought of a number of people who might learn something from reading The Power of Nice. I…

  • Wisdom from Anna Quindlen

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    I am reading Anna Quindlen’s new book Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake, but, so far, I like the first paragraph best. “It’s odd when I think of the arc of my life, from child to young woman to aging adult,” begins Quindlen, who is 59. “First I was who I was. Then I didn’t…

  • Spring cleaning advice from Anna Quindlen

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    Anna Quindlen has a new book called Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake, and we’ll write more about it after we’ve read it. But, we thought Anna’s wise words about “stuff” might be helpful immediately. In her new book, Anna Quindlen says: “I have a lot of stuff. I bet you do, too….There was a…

  • Joy and service

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    Service is a part of life that is connected to joy, says James Martin in his book Between Heaven and Mirth: Why Joy, Humor and Laughter Are at the Heart of Spiritual Life. Martin quotes the Indian writer and Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore, who wrote: “I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke…