Zora Neale Hurston to Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings: “You are my sister”
Unlikely friendships. They’re often the best because they’re out of the ordinary and anything out...
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Tag: women-and-ambition
Judy Chicago: Feminist Art, Collaborative Works and ChangeMaker
Last summer, I went to an exhibit by George Fok titled Passing Through at the Contemporary Jewish...
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Margaret Fuller (1810-1850): Share the Joys!
A piece titled “Christmas” written by Margaret Fuller is included in a collection of her works...
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Margaret Fuller’s Thanksgiving Revelation
It happens that as each Thanksgiving Day rolls around, I am reminded of Margaret Fuller’s...
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Temple Grandin: “I Can Picture It Perfectly”(American b. 1947)
Admittedly, I’m obsessed with recording our progress at breaking the bronze ceiling....
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Becoming a ‘Nasty Woman’: An Interview with Memoirist Grace Talusan
When I found out that Grace Talusan was publishing her memoir in 2019, I knew I had to read it....
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Francesca Caccini (1587-1646): The First Woman to Compose an Opera
(The featured image above is from the 2018 performance of Caccini’s La Liberazioine at the...
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Grazia Deledda (1871-1936): The Second Woman Writer to Win a Nobel Prize in Literature was a Woman from Sardinia
Sardinian woman writer Grazia Deledda wrote every day, even after she was married and had...
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Katalin Karikó: The biochemist who persisted!
Update: Since discovering scientist Katalin Karikó and the role she’s played in the...
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