The Resolute Woman

Category: resolute-women

  • People who are strong

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    “People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together,” Michelle Obama once said. –Joy

  • The asparagus test

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    Kelly Dittmar, a professor at the Rutgers Center for American Women and Politics, had a friend who needed someone to fill a spot on “some sort of asparagus advisory board.” When the friend asked a few men and a few women to join the board, the women said, “I don’t know that much about asparagus.”…

  • On the bus

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    I’m riding the bus to Austin on January 21 for a women’s march. I’ll be wearing the official march t-shirt that my friend Sally bought for me. On the front of the shirt in big black letters are these words: “They tried to bury us. They didn’t know we were seeds.” –Joy

  • T.G.I.F.

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    Do you think immediately, “Thank goodness, it’s Friday.”? That’s what I used to think. No more. Not since I saw a plaque in a store in Georgetown with “T.G.I.F.” in big letters and then underneath in smaller type: “Thank goodness, I’m female.” –Joy

  • The number of women leaders

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    The numbers tell the story of how far we have come and how far we still have to go. Women now hold top leadership positions—president, prime minister or its equivalent—in more than 70 countries in Europe, Latin America and the Asia Pacific. In fact, women lead two of Europe’s most powerful nations—Germany and Great Britain.…

  • A serious candidate for president

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    When Shirley Chisholm ran for president in 1972, the press asked her repeatedly: “But, Mrs. Chisholm, are you a serious candidate?” The reporters wanted to know if Chisholm thought that the country was ready to vote for a Black woman for president. They asked Chisholm, the first Black woman in Congress, if women should be…

  • Margaret Chase Smith for president?

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    “Would you comment on the possible candidacy of Margaret Chase Smith?” someone asked John F. Kennedy at his last press conference in 1963, only days before he left for Dallas. “I think she is very formidable, if that is the appropriate word to use about a very fine lady,” Kennedy replied. “She is a very…

  • Virginia Woodhull for president

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    Victoria Woodhull, “a lady stock operator of Wall Street,” was a “highly unorthodox candidate for president,” concludes Ellen Fitzpatrick in her book The Highest Glass Ceiling—Women’s Quest for the American Presidency. When Woodhull announced her “self-nomination” in 1870, women couldn’t vote. And, she didn’t meet the minimum age for president mandated by the Constitution. Woodhull…

  • Powerful and valuable

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    Never doubt that you are powerful and valuable, Hillary Clinton told the girls of this country in her speech the day after the 2016 presidential election. We hope every girl was listening. Hillary Clinton said: “I know we have still not shattered that highest and hardest glass ceiling, but someday someone will—and hopefully sooner than…

  • Uppity-er and uppity-er

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    During this election year, I’ve been thinking back to 1972 when I campaigned for Shirley Chisholm and attended the Democratic convention in Miami. At the convention, I shook hands with Gloria Steinem and attended meetings of the National Women’s Political Caucus. One of the speakers was Liz Carpenter. “Women,” Liz Carpenter told us, “are getting…