The Resolute Woman

Category: change

  • A leader and hope

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     “A leader is a dealer in hope,” Napoleon once said.

  • Every little girl

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    We hope our daughters will have a smoother path on their way to the offices of president and vice president, says Debra Adams Simmons, an executive editor of National Geographic. And, Simmons quotes Kamala Harris: “While I may be the first woman in this office, I will not be the last because every little girl…

  • We will continue to fight

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    “Dressed in suffrage white, Kamala Harris acknowledged ‘all the women who have worked to secure and protect the right to vote for over a century,’” writes Debra Adams Simmons, an executive editor of National Geographic, “’100 years ago with the 19th Amendment. Fifty-five years ago with the Voting Rights Act. And, now, in 2020, with…

  • A joyful warrior

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    “My daily challenge to myself is to be part of the solution, to be a joyful warrior in the battle to come,” writes Kamala Harris in her book The Truths We Hold—An American Journey. “My challenge to you is to join that effort. To stand up for our ideals and values.”

  • Make a difference

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    Now that I have voted, it’s time to think about what else I can do to make a difference. As Jane Goodall once said, “You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference…

  • A ripple of hope

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    “Each time a man a (or a woman or a child)  stands up for an ideal—or  acts to improve the lot of others—or  strikes out against injustice, he (or she) sends forth a tiny ripple of hope—and  crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which…

  • A good story

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    “The best arguments in the world won’t change a person’s mind. The only thing that can do that is a good story,” writes Richard Powers in The Overstory.

  • The enemy

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    “We have met the enemy, and they is us,” Pogo once said.

  • We dissent

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    Someone in Minneapolis rested a homemade sign in a chair on her lawn. “Rest in peace. RBG,” it read. “We’ll take it from here.” “I dissent,” Ruth Bader Ginsberg said. We need to dissent—and keep up RBG’s fight for equal rights and justice.

  • Fight like RBG

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    “Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you,” Ruth Bader Ginsberg once said.