The Resolute Woman

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  • Keep trying and trying

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    People are now reading Kathryn Stockett’s novel The Help in 39 languages, and they will go to the theaters to see the movie in August. But Stockett, who spoke in Dallas on May 3, 2011, remembers when she was receiving rejection letters from agents. Lots of rejection letters. “If I had given up after 60…

  • From nurse to mother to writer

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    What do you do when your son’s leaves home for his first day of kindergarten? Return to nursing or become a writer? Robin Oliviera had been a registered nurse who specialized in critical care and bone marrow transplants before she stayed home with her two children for five years. She loved nursing, but she also…

  • Mother, daughter and biographer

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    Rebecca Skloot writes about the amazing story of a poor black woman and her cancer cells in her book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. But she also tells the story of Lack’s daughter Deborah and her own story, too. Before Henrietta Lacks died in 1951, researchers at John Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore began growing…

  • Fayteen celebrates and then crashes

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    The doctor gave us good news last week. He told us that my daughter, Ranna, who had breast surgery recently, does not have any cancer cells in her lymph nodes. When I heard the news, I said, “Thank you, God.” And , then, I said thank you to the doctor. As soon as the doctor…

  • Are you focused on your goal?

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    It’s important to define your goals. Almost always accomplishing your goal requires hard work. Sometimes achieving your goal requires you to stop everything and focus on one important task. For many years while Fayteen was working as a model, Buick hired her to stand next to a shiny new car at the State Fair of…

  • Are you afraid that you will fail?

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    Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the first Hispanic woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court judge, visited the University of Chicago Law School last month and told students that she has spent most of her life afraid of failure. According to an article posted  on chicagotribune.com on January 31, Sotomayor said that her knees trembled and…

  • Do you feel a sense of satisfaction?

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    It was December 19, and Fayteen and I had made a goal to finish another draft of our book The Resolute Woman by the end of the year. We did it. We finished another draft. But, we both realized that it wasn’t the FINAL draft. Plus, we were right in the middle of a happy,…