The Resolute Woman

Category: courage

  • Unless someone cares a lot

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    When my children were teenagers, they sometimes replied, “I don’t care.” “It’s important to care,” I would tell them. That’s why I like this quote—which I found on a blue sticker packaged with several presents from my son, Jay, and his wife, Rachel. (They know I like quotes!) The Lorax said, “Unless someone like you…

  • Where hope lies

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    “The hope of the world lies in what one demands, not of others, but of oneself,” James Baldwin once said.

  • 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.”

  • We made it

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    “When this day is over and the night takes us, allow yourself a deep breath. Because we made it through this day….There will be another one along tomorrow,” says Frederik Backman in his book Anxious People. I heard Frederik Backman speak at an Arts & Letters virtual presentation, and I couldn’t resist reading his book.

  • 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…

  • The best we can

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    “The truth?” writes Frederik Backman in his book Anxious People. “The truth about all of this? The truth is that this was a story about many different things, but most of all about the idiots. Because we’re doing the best we can, we really are. We’re trying to be grown-up and love each other and…

  • We learn to pretend

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    “There is such an unbelievable amount that we’re all supposed to be able to cope with these days,” says Frederik Backman in his book Anxious People. “You’re supposed to have a job, and somewhere to live, and a family, and you’re supposed to pay taxes and have clean underwear and remember the password to your…

  • 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.