The Resolute Woman

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  • The lighten-up-and-have-more-fun team

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    Fayteen and I had a great lunch last week. We both needed to talk, and we both needed someone to listen. Fayteen was worried about Ranna, her daughter who is battling breast cancer, and was asking herself if there was anything she could have done differently when the cancer was diagnosed. Was there anything that…

  • Blessed with generosity?

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    Remember Anne Frank’s statement from her diary: “I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.” Roger Rosenblatt, in an essay in the book Time/CBS News People of the Century, comments: “She was not simply born blessed with generosity; she struggled toward it by way of self-doubt, impatience, rage, ennui—all…

  • Wisdom from Cheryl Strayed

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    Her hiking boots were too small. “My feet were dotted with an ever-increasing number of blisters,” reported Cheryl Strayed. “I sat in the dirt examining them, knowing there was little I could do to prevent the blisters from going from bad to worse.” Her backpack was much too heavy. “My hips and shoulders were covered…

  • Wisdom from Sally Ride

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    Sally Ride, who died on July 23, 2012, was this country’s first woman in space. She also started a foundation to promote science education and to encourage young women to study science. “All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary,” she once said. I read this quote in the August 6, 2012, issue of People…

  • Superwoman vs. the Resolute Woman

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    What’s the difference between the Resolute Woman and superwoman? The Resolute Woman takes care of herself. Superwoman does everything and takes care of everyone else. She doesn’t have time to take care of herself. The Resolute Woman realizes that no one is perfect. She doesn’t act as if she’s perfect. Superwoman acts as if she’s…

  • Is it possible to be superwoman?

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    In her article  in The Atlantic, Anne-Marie Slaughter writes about women struggling to “have it all” and suggests that our society needs to change social policies to help men and women balance families and careers. We agree. However, until those policies change, we keep asking ourselves  if we’re trying to be superwomen instead of Resolute Women.…

  • Moving forward into the future

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    In the introduction to the 2005 edition of Through the Narrow Gate, Karen Armstrong, a British author of 12 books, remembers that the first draft of this book was filled with anger. Armstrong was writing about her six years in a Roman Catholic convent, and those years were filled with struggles and pain that she…

  • Wisdom from Anna Quindlen

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    I am reading Anna Quindlen’s new book Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake, but, so far, I like the first paragraph best. “It’s odd when I think of the arc of my life, from child to young woman to aging adult,” begins Quindlen, who is 59. “First I was who I was. Then I didn’t…

  • Words of wisdom from Elizabeth Smart

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    Elizabeth Smart survived kidnapping and months of physical abuse when she was taken from her home in Salt Lake City in 2002. She was only 14. Now 10 years later, she is married and she has started a foundation that is devoted to helping young people avoid or recover from violence. During a recent visit…

  • Remember Carol Burnett?

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    Thanks to my friend Kerry—and especially thanks to her father, who bought two tickets and couldn’t attend the show, I recently was invited to see Carol Burnett perform. Carol Burnett, I’m sure you remember, entertained for 11 years on “The Carol Burnett Show” with an average of 30 million viewers every week. I am happy…