Category: resolute-women

  • Your power

    “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any,” says the author Alice Walker.

  • The Right Fight

    Eddie Bernice Johnson “taught me that the fight for good is rarely easy, but it is always right,” Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins said in his eulogy for Eddie Bernice Johnson. Eddie Bernice Johnson overcame many of the obstacles faced by women and by Black women to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives from…

  • Focus on the work

    “One of the things she taught me: ‘Don’t focus on the title, focus on the work,’’’ Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins said in his eulogy for Eddie Bernice Johnson. Eddie Bernice Johnson overcame many of the obstacles faced by women and by Black women to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1993 to…

  • The story of a Black woman

    Eddie Bernice Johnson, who served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1993 to 2023, overcame many of the obstacles faced by Black women.

  • Women’s business

    “All issues are women’s business, and there are several that are just women’s issues,” Eddie Bernice Johnson once said. Johnson, who died recently, served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1993 to 2023. She was the first registered nurse to serve in Congress. –Joy

  • Noise

    Panchita, Isabel Allende’s mother, once said, “Everything can be handled elegantly and without noise.” Isabel disagreed. “There’s no feminism without noise,” she writes. I just read Allende’s book The Soul of a Woman. Some of the book is very interesting, and some of it is not so interesting. –Joy

  • Feminism

    “The patriarchy is stony,” writes Isabel Allende. “Feminism, like the ocean, is fluid, powerful, deep and encompasses the infinite complexity of life. It moves in waves, currents, tides and sometimes in storms.” I just read Allende’s book The Soul of a Woman. Some of the book is very interesting, and some of it is not…

  • Dianne Feinstein

    “Toughness doesn’t have to come in a pinstripe suit,” Dianne Feinstein once said. Feinstein died on September 29, 2023. She was 90 years old, the longest serving woman senator.

  • Good role models

    Qian Julie Wang decided that she would become a lawyer. An avid reader, Wang explains, “I had come upon and gulped down condensed biographies of Ruth Bader Ginsberg and Thurgood Marshall. Ruth and Thurgood showed me that lawyers didn’t have to be men, and they didn’t have to be white.” Wang, author of Beautiful Country,…

  • The perfect affirmative-action baby

    Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor says that she is “a product of affirmative action. I am the perfect affirmative action baby. I am Puerto Rican, born and raised in the south Bronx. My test scores were not comparable to my colleagues at Princeton and Yale. Not so far off so that I wasn’t able to…