The Resolute Woman

Category: resolute-women

  • Nevertheless

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    My friend Leslie sent me a wonderful t-shirt. The words on the front say: “Nevertheless, she persisted.” What a lot of truth is expressed in those three words. Those words remind me of my grandmother who kept the family farm going in West Texas after her husband died. When the Depression made everything more difficult,…

  • The habit of excellence

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    I’m de-cluttering again—and discovering some bits of wisdom in the tons of papers that I have saved. How about a quote from Aristotle? “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit,” Aristotle once said. –Joy

  • A thousand unbreakable links

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    “The pine tree, the leopard, the Platte River and ourselves—we are at risk together,” writes Mary Oliver in her book Upstream. I love Mary Oliver’s poetry, and I must admit that I like her poetry much better than the essays in Upstream. But, this book contains paragraphs that are poetry—and full of wisdom. This poet…

  • Parity in 2055!?

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    Women should reach parity with men on corporate boards by 2055, says Equilar, a corporate research firm. 2055? That seems a long way off. The pace might pick up, The Dallas Morning News reports. But, currently, the number of women on boards is increasing very slowly. About 15 percent of the director seats at publicly…

  • I’m speaking up

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    I’ve made a goal to write at least one letter to my representatives in Washington, D.C., and Austin every week. So far, this year I’ve written 12 letters. I’m speaking up. There’s a Latin proverb that says: “He (or she!) who is silent, when he (or she) ought to have spoken and was able to,…

  • High heels—no longer required

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    When Nicola Thorp reported for work as a temporary receptionist in the financial center in London, her supervisor told her that she had to wear shoes with heels at least two inches high. Thorp stood up for her rights to wear flat shoes and started a petition that gathered 150,000 signatures. More than two years…

  • Non-fat woman walking

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    Judge Bailey Moseley, who sits on the Texas Sixth District Court of Appeals, posted this “joke” on his Facebook page: “After just one day in office, Trump managed to achieve something that no one else has been able to do. He got a million fat women out walking.” I am one non-fat woman who marched…

  • Hope is left to us

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    I have been depressed by the election results—so depressed that I resorted to eating chocolate for three days. But marching in the Women’s March in Austin improved my spirits. I took action! And I am going to continue to take action. I have made a goal of writing at least one letter to my representatives…

  • Dignity and decency

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    Michelle Obama once said, “We learned about dignity and decency—that how hard you work matters more than how much you make—that helping others means more than just getting ahead yourself.”

  • The power of hope

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    Michelle Obama once said, “When you are struggling, and you start thinking about giving up, I want you to remember something that my husband and I have talked about since we first started this journey nearly a decade ago—something that has carried us through every moment in this White House and every moment of our…