The Resolute Woman

Category: change

  • The misogynist manifesto

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    In its fall 2024 issue, Ms. magazine calls Project 2025 “the misogynist manifesto.” Project 2025, for example, “directs the president to develop policies and programs to maintain a biblically based, social science-reinforced definition of marriage and family.” The document explains: “For the sake of child well-being, programs should affirm that children require and deserve both…

  • The time is now

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    In her autobiography The Truths We Hold, Kamala Harris quotes James Baldwin: “There is never a time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment. The time is now.”

  • Too many books?

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    I am—reluctantly—trying to get rid of a few books. Too many books? Impossible, said Umberton Eco, Italian writer and philosopher. He owned 50,000 books! “”It is foolish to think that you have to read all the books you buy, as it is foolish to criticize those who buy more books than they will ever be…

  • I fell

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    Yikes! I fell. No broken bones. Probably nerve damage. I am walking slowly with some pain. My husband Jerry has been a very attentive nurse, and I have received lots of comforting messages from friends. I have always loved this quote from Winnie the Pooh. “Friendship is a comforting thing to have.” –Joy

  • A Black woman president?

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    Is this country ready for a Black woman president? The bigger question, asked Alex Shephard in the New Republic, is whether we’re ready to elect an elderly career criminal to whom the epithet “fascist” can be applied without hyperbole. Should “a convicted felon, sexual predator and insurrectionist” be returned to office? asked Frederick Baron and…

  • Waiting to die

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    “You have to wait until you are certain that a patient is going to die before you can end that pregnancy,” said Dr. Lauren Miller, who was quoted in the spring 2024 issue of Ms. Magazine. She was practicing in Idaho when she made that statement, but she now lives in Colorado.

  • It’s exciting!

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    A Black woman is going to be president of the United States! Maybe? We hope. I am reminded of a quote from Georgia O’Keeffe. “Kick your heels in the air! Isn’t it exciting?!” O’Keeffe once said. –Joy

  • The Shawnee’s Golden Rule

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    “Do not kill or injure your neighbor, for it is not he or she that you injure. You injure yourself.” This is the Shawnee Tribe’s Golden Rule. The Golden Rule “means this: Treat people the way you would like to be treated. It’s golden because it’s so valuable—and a way of living your life that’s…

  • Buddhism’s Golden Rule

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    “Do not do to others what would hurt you.” This is Buddhism’s Golden Rule. The Golden Rule “means this: Treat people the way you would like to be treated. It’s golden because it’s so valuable—and a way of living your life that’s so simple, it shines,” says the grandfather in Ilene Cooper’s children’s book The…

  • Hinduism’s Golden Rule

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    “This is the sum of duty: to do nothing to others which would cause them pain.” This is Hinduism’s Golden Rule. The Golden Rule “means this: Treat people the way you would like to be treated. It’s golden because it’s so valuable—and a way of living your life that’s so simple, it shines,” says the…