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WOMEN AND ADVERSITY: BREAK DOWN THE BARRIERS
June 14, 2018I featured Rula Jebreal and her background on this blog in August 2016 (link: https://wp.me/p4szxH-yQ) after reading her semi-autobiographical novel Miral ...
Women and Adversity: Dena and Rebecca Lindgren Fictional sisters in Outside the Limelight, Book 2 in the Ballet Theatre Chronicles series By Terez Mertes Rose
April 12, 2018Somehow this book got into my Kindle, and I couldn’t ignore it. Tutu, plié and barre are about the only ballet terms I knew until I read Outside the Limelight, but this novel’s message ...
Women and Adversity: Lucretia Mott Women’s Activist, Abolitionist
January 15, 2018In the second decade of the 21st century on the heels of the 2017 “Me Too” movement, women must be reminded that a host of women activists came before us. One of the earliest in America was ...
Women and Adversity: Edith Wharton, First Women Awarded Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
August 10, 2017August 11 marks the 80th anniversary of Edith Wharton’s death. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1921 for “The Age of Innocence,” the first woman ever to earn that award. ...
Women and Adversity: Dr. Mae Jemison, First African American Woman in Space
July 27, 2017Dr. 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
July 13, 2017Women 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 ...
Women and Adversity: Maya Angelou Author, Poet, Actress, Activist
February 23, 2017Maya Angelou, born Marguerite Annie Johnson on April 4, 1928 in St. Louis, was “first” in a number of enterprises: * First black female cable car conductor in San Francisco ...
Women and Adversity: Dean Florence Wald Pioneer of Hospice in the U.S.
October 27, 2016Women 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
October 13, 2016Hospice 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”
September 8, 2016Most 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 ...