“The whole world opened to me
when I learned to read.”
―Mary McLeod Bethune,
African-American Civil and
Women’s Rights Leader,
Educator, member of FDR’s
Federal Council of Negro Affairs
(his “black cabinet”)
WOW2 is a four-times-a-month sister blog to This Week in the War on Women. This edition covers stories from November 9 through November 16.
The next installment of WOW2 will be on Saturday, November 19, 2022.
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“… I desire you would remember the
ladies and be more generous and
favorable to them than your ancestors.
Do not put such unlimited power
into the hands of the husbands. Remember,
all men would be tyrants if they could.
If particular care and attention is not
paid to the ladies, we are determined to
foment a rebellion, and will not hold
ourselves bound by any laws in
which we have no voice or representation.
That your sex are naturally tyrannical
is a truth so thoroughly established as to
admit of no dispute; but such of you as
wish to be happy willingly give up —
the harsh tide of master for the more
tender and endearing one of friend.
Why, then, not put it out of the
power of the vicious and the
lawless to use us with cruelty
and indignity with impunity?”
―Abigail Adams, in a letter to her
husband John dated March 31, 1776
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“I raise up my voice ― not so I can shout but
so that those without a voice can be heard ...
we cannot succeed when half of us are held back.”―Malala Yousafzai, Pakistani Pashtun
advocate for education of girls and women,
winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014
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The purpose of WOW2 is to learn about and honor women of achievement, including many who’ve been ignored or marginalized in most of the history books, and to mark moments in women’s history. It also serves as a reference archive of women’s history.
These trailblazers have a lot to teach us about persistence in the face of overwhelming odds. I hope you will find reclaiming our past as much of an inspiration as I do.
THIS WEEK IN THE WAR ON WOMEN
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catch up on the latest dispatches from the frontlines.
