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WOW2 – January’s Women Trailblazers and Activists, 1-17 thru 1-24
.WOW2 is a four-times-a-month sister blog to This Week in the War on Women.“Women can save civilization only by the broadest cooperative action, by taking part in greater numbers in government, by...
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Morning Open Thread: “All That’s Best of Dark and Bright”
“The enchantments of the past must always become the disenchantments of the future. But memory, a preservative, may intervene … Art, the embalmer of memory, is the only human vocation in which the...
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WOW2 – January’s Women Trailblazers and Activists, 1-25 thru 1-31
“I decided blacks should not have to experience the difficulties I had faced, so I decided to open a flying school and teach other black women to fly.”–Bessie Coleman, first black woman to earn an...
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Morning Open Thread: To Hear the Flute of Your Whole Existence
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will...
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WOW2 – February 2023: Women Trailblazers and Activists, 2-1 thru 2-8
February is Black History Month“I was born to a mother who was deaf and could not speak. I do not know who my father is or was. The first job I ever had was in a cotton field ... It isn’t luck, and it...
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Morning Open Thread: His Ninth Life – In Memoriam
No sovereign instrument vibrant with sound Could stronger in me sing Than your voice, mysterious Seraphic, blissful cat? in form an angel, Strange cat? in which all is As harmonious as it is subtle.–...
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WOW2 – February 2023: Women Trailblazers and Activists, 2-9 thru 2-14
February is Black History Month.“We are the ones we have been waiting for, because we live in an age in which we are able to see and understand our own predicament.”―Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prize...
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Morning Open Thread: ‘The Poem You Made of Me’– Valentine’s Week
“Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one’s life with pomp and blare, like a gay knight riding down; perhaps it crept to one’s side like an old friend through quiet ways; perhaps it revealed...
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WOW2 – February 2023: Women Trailblazers and Activists, 2-15 thru 2-22
February is Black History Month“Mobile phone technology can help to bring financial services to the 80% of African women who do not have a bank account and bolster the growth of the world’s poorest...
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Morning Open Thread: Through All My Tears I Still Shall Laugh
“The people are a story that never ends, A river that winds and falls and gleams erect in many dawns … The people always know that some of the grain will be good, Some of the crop will be saved, some...
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WOW2 – February 2023: Women Trailblazers and Activists, 2-23 thru 2-29
February is Black History Month“Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both.”–Constance Baker Motley, first Black woman appointed to the federal...
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Morning Open Thread: “This Unimportant Morning Something Goes Singing”
In a word, they wanted Progress, that hallowed, good, and gentle thing, and they demanded it in a terrible fashion, with oaths on their lips and weapons in their hands. They were barbarous, yes; but...
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WOW2 – March 2023: Women Trailblazers and Activists, 3-1 thru 3-8
March is National Women’s History MonthThe most common characteristic of women's history is to be lost and discovered, lost again and rediscovered, lost once more and re-rediscovered – a process of...
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Morning Open Thread: Until Wings Break Into Fire
“The genesis of a poem for me is usually a cluster of words.The only good metaphor I canthink of is a scientific one: dipping a thread into a supersaturated solution to induce crystal formation. I...
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WOW2 – March 2023: Women Trailblazers and Activists, 3-9 thru 3-16
March is National Women’s History Month“I do so want to see the fruition of the work for women in the past century. There is so much yet to be done, I see so many things I would like to do and say, but...
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Morning Open Thread: Music So Sweet It Makes the Air Remember
“If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity … our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all...
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WOW2 - March 2023: Women Trailblazers and Activists, 3-17 thru 3-24
March is National Women’s History Month“Some men say that they think a tax-paying woman should have the ballot. I contend that the poorest factory girl is helping pay the taxes and she should have a...
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Morning Open Thread: Dragon-Seekers, Bent on Impossible Rescues
The poet's eye, in fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven; And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown,...
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WOW2 - March 2023: Women Trailblazers and Activists, 3-25 thru 3-31
March is National Women’s History Month“Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke.”–Gloria...
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Morning Open Thread: Dancing and Not Dying, I Sing to You in the Mornings
A poet’s work … to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it from going to sleep. –SalmanRushdie___________________.Welcome to Morning Open...
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