The Resolute Woman

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  • Be outrageous

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    “Keep fighting for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don’t forget to have fun doin’ it,” Molly Ivins once said. “Lord, let your laughter ring forth. Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce.” I recently watched a PBS documentary about Molly Ivins, the sometimes outrageous journalist. –Joy

  • No simple solutions?

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    Of course, there are no simple solutions. But, are our problems too complex to solve? Here’s what Madeleine Albright once said: “I have spent a lifetime looking for remedies to all manner of life’s problems — personal, social, political, global. I am deeply suspicious of those who offer simple solutions and statements of absolute certainty…

  • A place in hell

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    We need to help each other. As Madeleine Albright, this country’s first female secretary of state, once said, “There is a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.”

  • A harbinger of hope

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    Senator Cory Booker brought tears to the eyes of Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson on March 24, 2022. “It’s hard for me not to look at you and not see my mom. Not to see my cousins,” he said. Throughout his monologue, Booker cited the Black men and women who had helped pave a…

  • A Black woman on the Supreme Court

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    Of course, it’s time for a Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court. As President Joe Biden said, “For too long, our government, our courts, haven’t looked like America. I believe it’s time that we have a court that reflects the full talents and greatness of our nation with a nominee of extraordinary qualifications,…

  • Trying to try

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    In her new book Good Enough, Kate Bowler writes, “Trying feels harder than it did before.” “We are trying,” she explains. “Well, we are trying to try….We will have to find enough momentum to reach for a life that is never perfect, but good enough.”

  • A little bit of change

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    “I do not like the world as it is; so, I am trying to make it a little more as I want it,” Helen Keller once said. We watched a PBS special about Helen Keller last week—and learned that she was brilliant and she accomplished so much. But, she was not perfect. She was complicated.…

  • As old as you feel

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    A British magazine wanted to honor Queen Elizabeth, who is 95 and will celebrate 70 years as queen in 2022, as “Oldie of the Year.” Elizabeth declined the honor. “Her Majesty believes you are as old as you feel, as such The Queen does not believe she meets the relevant criteria to be able to…

  • Sustained rage

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    One of my favorite quotes from journalist Molly Ivins is this: “What you need is sustained outrage.” She also said, “You can’t ignore politics no matter how much you’d like to.” Dave Lieber included both of these quotes in his column in the October 17, 2021, issue of The Dallas Morning News. –Joy

  • Just start in and sing

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    When Jane Goodall reads a poem by Edgar Albert Guest to a reporter from Time magazine, she recites with “the joyful, kindly spirit of a grandmother speaking to a child.” “Just start in to sing as you tackle the thing that ‘cannot be done,’ and you’ll do it,” Goodall says. Goodall is featured on the…