The Resolute Woman

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  • Part rock and part flower petal

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    Kala Shaima, the wise aunt in Nadia Hashimi’s book, says, “The human spirit…is harder than a rock and more delicate than a flower petal.” The aunt reminds her niece Rahima, “Don’t forget that you are part flower petal and part rock, too.” Shaima’s book is The Pearl That Broke Its Shell.

  • Tough and tender

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    Fayteen and I both have summer birthdays. That’s why we like this quote from Maya Angelou. “Women should be tough, tender, laugh as much as possible—and live long lives. –Joy

  • Warm or Competent?

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    Age may have some advantages, wrote Liza Mundy in an article in the Sunday, July 5, 2015, issue of The Dallas Morning News. Feminist scholars have found that women seen as displaying traditionally feminine traits are viewed as warm but not competent. However, women who deviate from traditional femininity—like working women—are seen as competent but…

  • Misty Copeland, Resolute Woman

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    Misty Copeland recently was named the first African-American woman to be a principal dancer at the American Ballet Theatre. “I had moments of doubting myself, and wanting to quit, because I didn’t know that there would be a future for an African-American woman to make it to this level,” Ms. Copeland said at a news…

  • Be yourself

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    Gloria Steinem once suggested that women have three alternatives as they grow older. “If there are three alternatives, the first being to go along with society’s vision of aging and become an older woman in the conventional sort, the second being to defy society’s idea of aging by remaining a younger woman of a conventional…

  • Smuggling mice and working hard

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    Rita Levi-Montalcini once smuggled a pair of mice on a plane to Brazil by tucking them in her purse or maybe it was her pocket. She needed the mice for research. In 1986, she was award a Nobel Prize for her research on nerve cells. When Levi-Montalcini died in 2012, she was still doing research,…

  • Running a marathon at 92

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    Did you hear about Harriette Thompson, age 92, who finished a marathon in San Diego in 7 hours, 24 minutes and 36 seconds? Yes, she’s 92, according to an article in the June 1, 2015, issue of The Dallas Morning News. Thompson is the oldest woman to finish a marathon—and definitely a Resolute Woman. She’s…

  • Anne Whitney and Lady Godiva

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    I was intrigued when I saw a statue of Lady Godiva recently at the Dallas Museum of Art and noticed that the sculptor was Anne Whitney, who was born in 1821 and died in 1915. The museum’s information explained that Lady Godiva rode naked through the streets in midday in an effort to get her…

  • A nice problem

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    I wish I could lose five pounds. I wish my closet was clean. I wish I had more willpower. “Modern life is a wonderful thing, rife with freedom and opportunity, but it comes with the problem of self-control,” says Daniel Akst, the author of We Have Met the Enemy: Self-control in an Age of Excess.…

  • Thank you to a dutiful wife

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    Dr. E. Donnall Thomas received a Nobel Prize in 1990 for his work establishing bone-marrow transplants as an effective weapon against blood diseases. For years, his wife, Dorothy, worked alongside her husband, drawing blood from patients, checking lab results and doing background research. She even wrote and edited many of Donnall’s scientific papers, reports The…