The Resolute Woman

Category: change

  • A fractured world

    —

    by

    resolutewoman
    in ,

    Through their art, they are “coming to terms with being a fractured person living in a fractured world,” explain artists Lucia Simek and Cassandra Bird. We are considering what we are doing to come to terms with this “fractured” world. We read about these two artists in the September 16, 2017, issue of The Dallas…

  • Edit often

    —

    by

    resolutewoman
    in

    I found these words displayed on the wall of Forest Meadow Junior High, where I go once a week to volunteer. “Your life is your story. Write well. Edit often.” –Joy

  • Be radical!?

    —

    by

    resolutewoman
    in ,

    “A radical is a man (or a woman) with both feet firmly planted in the air,” President Franklin Roosevelt once said.

  • Let go

    —

    by

    resolutewoman
    in , ,

    You can’t control everything—although I often try to. “We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us,” Joseph Campbell once said. –Joy

  • Keep moving

    —

    by

    resolutewoman
    in ,

    “The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day,” Gloria Steinem stresses. “A movement is only people moving.” We found that quote in The Week, and the magazine reprinted it from Bustle.com.

  • What we like

    —

    by

    resolutewoman
    in ,

    “How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!” Jane Austen once said. Because I found a copy of Jane Austen’s Emma on my bookshelf and I’m reading it again, I decided to share some favorite Jane Austen quotes. –Joy

  • Selfish?

    —

    by

    resolutewoman
    in ,

    “I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, if not in principle,” Jane Austen once said. Because I found a copy of Jane Austen’s Emma on my bookshelf and I’m reading it again, I decided to share some favorite Jane Austen quotes. –Joy

  • The perfect diet

    —

    by

    resolutewoman
    in ,

    Yikes! That’s what I have to say about this email message that showed up recently in my inbox: “Join thousands of people who already are living a better life. We have created the perfect and 100 percent working diet solution.” Of course, I wish there was a perfect diet. But I am skeptical of any…

  • Free from family?

    —

    by

    resolutewoman
    in ,

    Her brother Nath was ready to leave his family and go away to college—“to start over as a new person with a new life.” It’s “just a problem of geography,” he thought, “with the confidence of someone who had never yet tried to free himself of family.” Most of us, like Nath, a character in…

  • Get started

    —

    by

    resolutewoman
    in , ,

    Every morning when the alarm goes off, I hesitate a minute. And, then I tell myself: “Get up and do your exercises!” I do them. Every morning. Even when I would much prefer to be sleeping a bit longer. Soon, I’m finished. I’ve learned that I need to do my exercises immediately—as soon as I…