The Resolute Woman

Category: resolute-women

  • Gloria Steinem never stops

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    We’ve used the same headline for this blog post that The New York Times used for its October 9, 2016, article about the “feminist icon.” John Leland, who wrote the article, explained that Steinem keeps the schedule of a rock star. The weekend before she had breakfast with Leland, she had traveled to North Carolina…

  • Are you normal?

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    I don’t think I’ve ever been normal, but, more and more, I accept that it’s okay. In fact, Maya Angelou once said, “If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.” I found this quote in Maya Angelou’s book Rainbow in the Cloud—The Wisdom and Spirit of…

  • When I have pains

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    “I’ve learned that even when I have pains, I don’t have to be one,” Maya Angelou once said. My friend Mary Ann recently gave me a copy of Maya Angelou’s Rainbow in the Cloud—The Wisdom and Spirit of Maya Angelou. I will share some more of Maya’s wisdom in our next blog post. –Joy

  • Sit down quietly

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    “I think when we don’t know what to do it’s wise to do nothing,” Maya Angelou once said. “Sit down quietly; quiet our hearts and minds and breathe deeply.” My friend Mary Ann recently gave me a copy of Maya Angelou’s Rainbow in the Cloud—The Wisdom and Spirit of Maya Angelou. I will share some…

  • Women must be revolutionaries

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    Shirley Chisholm, the first African-American congresswoman, ran for president in 1972. She was “the most historically significant forerunner to Hillary Clinton,” says Marc Morial, the president and CEO of the National Urban League. Chisholm hired only women for her campaign staff, and half of those women were African Americans. “Of my two handicaps, being female…

  • A journey to find herself

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    Amazing! The new Disney movie “Moana” will feature a heroine who journeys to find herself—not to find a man. We read about “Moana” in the August 8, 2016, issue of Time magazine.

  • Good luck and staying power

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    Sometimes success has much less to do with courage than “sheer good luck and staying power,” says Robyn Davidson, who writes about her journey across her native Australia with four camels and a dog in her book Tracks. Sometimes when I need inspiration, I return to a book I’ve already read—one about a Resolute Woman,…

  • Try to be a rainbow

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    I asked for pretty stamps at the post office—and I got them! They’re stamps adorned with a lovely, smiling photograph of Maya Angelou, author of I Know Why a Caged Bird Sings. And, I hit the jackpot. There’s a Maya Angelou quote on each stamp and another quote on the sheet of 16 stamps. On…

  • Grit and grace

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    Deborah Sampson was a member of George Washington’s Continental Army. Disguised as a man, she was the first woman to take a bullet for her country. She removed the musket ball and stitched up the wound herself because she feared that a doctor would discover that she was a woman. Meryl Streep told Sampson’s story…

  • The beginning of a dream

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    “A dream begins with a dreamer,” Harriet Tubman once said. Tubman, who soon will be featured on $20 bills, was born a slave. After she escaped to freedom, she returned to the South again and again to rescue more than 300 slaves.