#Writers

Women and Adversity: Lorraine Hansberry, Lesbian, Playwright, Civil Rights Activist

Women and Adversity: Lorraine Hansberry  Lesbian, Playwright, Civil Rights Activist  In December I always repeat a post I think people will appreciate reading about again. Since I'm from the ...

Women and Adversity: Janet Murguía One of Forbes 50 Over 50 President and CEO of UnidosUS

Janet Murguía President and CEO UnidosUS Janet Murguía became president and CEO of UnidosUS, formerly the National Council of La Raza, on January 1, 2005. It is the largest civil rights advocacy ...

Women and Adversity: Elizabeth Magie Phillips Inventor of Monopoly Elizabeth “Lizzie” Magie was that rare woman in the 1800s who believed women could achieve as much as men even though they d ...

Women and Adversity: Dr. Mae Jemison, First African American Woman in Space

  Dr. Mae Jemison’s accomplishments will undoubtedly elicit admiration from all women because of the scope of her talents. Born in 1956 in Decatur, AL, the youngest of three childre ...

Women and Adversity: Sally Ride First American Woman in Space

Women and Adversity: Sally Ride First American Woman in Space In January 1978, NASA chose six women to be astronaut candidates, and Sally Ride was one of them. She was dedicated to science, especi ...

Kathryn Craft, Author/Novelist

My Women and Adversity posts seldom run more than a few hundred words, but author/novelist Kathryn Craft has inspirational comments that I thought women in every field, not just writers, would b ...

Women and Adversity: Dean Florence Wald Pioneer of Hospice in the U.S.

Women and Adversity: Dean Florence Wald Pioneer of Hospice in the U.S. After working at St. Christopher’s Hospice in London with Cicely Saunders, founder of the Hospice movement, Florence W ...

Women and Adversity: Dame Cicely Saunders Founder of Modern Hospice

Hospice has comforted millions of people worldwide, thanks to the persistence, determination and research of Dame Cicely Saunders. This woman was born in England in 1918 of a wealthy family. At ...

Women and Adversity: Maria Toorpakai Pakistan Author, “A Different Kind of Daughter”

Most of us women in the U.S. have no concept of what it’s like to live under oppressive conditions or under a tyrannical regime. We go to school, buy clothes we like, date and have the freedom ...

Women and Adversity: Gabriela Mistral, Nobel Prize for Literature, 1945

 Women and Adversity: Gabriela Mistral May is National Latino Books month, so I did some research on Latin American writers. I learned that Gabriela Mistral, a poet from Chile, is the first Lati ...