Women and Adversity
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: Coretta Scott King Writer, Civil Rights Activist
February 9, 2017Coretta Scott King, Martin Luther King, Jr.’s widow, carved a place for herself in the history of the civil rights movement. She grew up in Alabama and experienced discrimination from childhoo ...
Women and Adversity: Azar Nafisi, Women’s Advocate, Writer from Iran
January 26, 2017Women’s rights, diversity and tolerance are key words that describe Azar Nafisi. Her signature work, “Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books,” was first published in 2003 and recounts ...
Women and Adversity: Ida B. Wells, Civil Rights Activist, Journalist
January 12, 2017I grew up hearing the name Ida B. Wells because a housing project in Chicago was named after this African American writer and activist, but I didn’t know who the woman really was or what she d ...
Kathryn Craft, Author/Novelist
January 3, 2017Women writers will benefit from the inspirational words author/novelist Kathryn Craft has to offer. This post ran in December but is worth running again as we enter 2017. I asked: What was the ...
Women and Adversity: Gwen Ifill Journalist, PBS News Anchor
December 22, 2016Gwen Ifill, who died of cancer Nov. 14, 2016 at the age of 61, was a role model for upcoming journalists, especially minority women. She was fair but didn't hesitate to ask tough questions. ...
Kathryn Craft, Author/Novelist
December 8, 2016My 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: Nomi Eve, Author
November 24, 2016Nomi Eve, author of “The Family Orchard” and “Henna House,” knows how to breathe life into the past. This featured speaker at the Women’s Fiction Writers Association writers’ confere ...
Women and Adversity: Frances Perkins 1st Woman in the U.S. Cabinet Principal Architect of the New Deal
November 10, 2016Franklin Roosevelt chose Frances Perkins to be his Secretary of Labor, the 1st woman to hold a Cabinet position. She had proven how passionate she was about workers’ rights and safety in the ...
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 ...