The Resolute Woman

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  • Beautiful and brainy

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    During the 1940s, the public relations department at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer promoted movie star Hedy Lamarr as “the most beautiful woman in the world.” But Hedy had brains and beauty. Together with composer George Antheil, she invented spread-spectrum radio, the technology that made wireless phones, GPS systems and many other devices possible. In his book Hedy’s Folly—the…

  • A different kind of beauty

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    In her book Wild—From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, Cheryl Strayed tells how startled she was when she looked into a mirror after three weeks hiking the Pacific Crest Trail. She looked like “a woman who had been the victim of a violent and bizarre crime,” she writes. “Bruises that ranged in…

  • The Lost Girls of Sudan

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    If you’re like us, you’ve probably heard about the Lost Boys of Sudan. Their journey started when civil war erupted in Sudan and then was followed by a severe famine and a second civil war. As a result, more than 5.5 million Sudanese were uprooted from their homes. A 1998 study by the U.S. Committee…

  • The myth of perfection

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    Debora Spar, president of Barnard College, urges women to recognize that the quest for perfection is a myth. In an article in the October 1 & 8 issue of Newsweek, Spar writes that one of the reasons women are unhappy is “fear that their kids don’t practice piano at least two hours a day, their…

  • Helping girls get an education

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    At the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, England, Malala, a 15-year-old from Pakistan, is fighting for her life. We’ve all heard how gunmen shot her in the head and neck because she advocated for education for girls. In Pakistan, children now proudly wear “I am Malala” t-shirts. The attack, says former British prime minister Gordon…

  • Wisdom from Barbara Jordan

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    Remember Barbara Jordan? The daughter of a Baptist minister, she was the first woman ever elected to the Texas Senate and the first African American Congresswoman to come from the Deep South. Texas Highways magazine calls her “The Great Texas Orator” in an article in its September 2012 issue and shares these quotes at texashighways.com/more.…

  • Wisdom from Margaret Hastings

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    In 1945, at the end of World War II, Margaret Hastings went on a sightseeing flight with 23 other soldiers and members of the Women’s Army Corps in the isolated mountains of New Guinea. They wanted to catch a glimpse of a beautiful valley that the Americans referred to as Shangri-La and the primitive people…

  • Getting back on the horse

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    I remember the first time I was thrown off a horse. I started to run away—to run as far away from that horse as I could run. But my dad wouldn’t let me run away. He caught me before I could fly away. He put his arms around me, and we stood by the horse…

  • How to help girls become leaders

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    Only 17 percent of United States senators, representatives and governors are women. Only 3 percent of Fortune 500 CEOs are women, and women make up only 15 percent of corporate boards. Women account for less than 20 percent of the bachelor’s degrees in engineering, computer science and physics. What’s even more discouraging is this statistic:…

  • So, what if you’re not perfect?

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    We aren’t . In fact, most of us aren’t. That’s why we’re passing along these suggestions from an article titled “Turn Setbacks into Success” in the Weight Watchers Weekly, July 8-14, 2012. Accept that you will make mistakes. Mistakes happen. If you can recognize that you’ve made a mistake without judging yourself negatively, you can…