The Resolute Woman

Category: character

  • Silence the soul

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    “The soul is like a wild animal—tough, resilient, savvy and yet exceedingly shy,” says Parker Palmer, the Quaker teacher. “If we want to see a wild animal, the last thing we should do is to go crashing through the woods for the creature to come out. But, if we are willing to walk quietly into…

  • Tell them who you are

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    In her autobiography The Truths We Hold, Kamala Harris stresses that one of her mother’s favorite sayings was: “Don’t let anybody tell you who you are. You tell them who you are.”

  • Speak the truth

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    Vice President Kamala Harris talks about truth in her autobiography The Truths We Hold. “We cannot solve our most intractable problems unless we are honest about what they are, unless we are willing to have difficult conversations and accept what facts make plain. “We need to speak truth: that racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia and anti-Semitism…

  • Buy a lot of books

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    We should buy a lot of books, says Umberton Eco, Italian writer and philosopher. There are those who buy only one book, read only that one and then get rid of it, Eco says. “They simply apply the consumer mentality to books. That is, they consider them a consumer product, a good. Those who love…

  • 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…

  • Islam’s Golden Rule

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    “Hurt no one so that no one may hurt you.” That’s Islam’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…

  • A valuable rule

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    Judaism says: “What is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow humans.” 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…

  • Living two lives

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    Sylvie, a character in Ann Napolitano’s book Oh Beautiful, realizes that she has been “compartmentalizing herself for a long time.” She was keeping secrets, living one life with some people and another life with William, being one person sometimes and another person at other times. Who was she? What did she want? I have compartmentalized.…