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WOW2: October 2023 Women Trailblazers and Activists – 10-8 thru 10-15
“With guns, you can kill terrorists, with education you can kill terrorism.”–Malala Yousafzai, youngest Nobel Peace Prize winner____________________________________________WOW2 is a...
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Morning Open Thread: May No Fascist Ever Drag You into Forever Fear
We all declare for liberty, but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.–Abraham Lincoln________________________.Welcome to Morning Open Thread, a daily post with a MOTley crew of...
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WOW2: October 2023 Women Trailblazers and Activists – 10-16 thru 10-23
“We're not going to create a more equal society by not prodding at it, are we?”–Laura Wade, English playwright______________________WOW2 is a four-times-a-month sister blog to This Week in the...
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Morning Open Thread: I Will Not Dance to Your Drummed Up War
Poetry is what in a poem makes you laugh, cry, prickle, be silent, makes your toe nails twinkle, makes you want to do this or that or nothing, makes you know that you are alone in the unknown world,...
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WOW2: October 2023 Women Trailblazers and Activists – 10-24 thru 10-31
“Now we see, the ballot has no color line and is colorblind.”–Marie Foster, Black American Civil Rights activist, Oct. 5, 1963______________________.WOW2 is a four-times-a-month sister blog to This...
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Morning Open Thread – Dark Mornings Show Thy Mask
“Each person who ever was or is or will be has a song. It isn't a song that anybody else wrote. It has its own melody, it has its own words. Very few people get to sing their song. Most of us fear that...
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WOW2: November 2023 Women Trailblazers and Activists – 11-1 thru 11-8
“Women are problem solvers, and often we don't get much credit for that because the typical image of a leader is someone who's loud, obnoxious, chest-pounding. That's not my vision of what true...
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Morning Open Thread: No Question is Ever Settled Until It is Settled Right
“I believe that all politicians are unprincipled crooks and I still believe that they are better than the alternative … I believe that the greatest poets of the last century were Edith Sitwell and Don...
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WOW2: November 2023 Women Trailblazers and Activists – 11-9 thru 11-16
“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 (Roosevelt’s...
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Morning Open Thread: A Word After a Word After a Word is Power
“The language we use to describe and operate in theworld affects the way we understand the world, ourplace in it, and our interactions with one another.Changing our language changes our world.”―Suzette...
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WOW2: November 2023 Women Trailblazers and Activists – 11-17 thru 11-23
"I demand more rights for womenbecause I know what women can do."–Ellen Johnson Sirleaf,President of Liberia, (2006-2018),first African elected womanhead of state; 2011 Nobel Peace...
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Morning Open Thread: When the Wolves Come
____________________________________________________If we but give it time, a work of art'can rap and knock and enter our souls'and re-align us – all our molecules –to make us whole again.–P. K. Page,...
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WOW2: November 2023 Women Trailblazers and Activists – 11-24 thru 11-30
“If you’re a Black artist, you could paint awall of smiley faces, and someone willstill ask you, ‘Why are you so angry?”–Kara Walker, Black American artist and...
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Morning Open Thread: Are You a Visitor?
__________________________“A poem once read is the first note of a symphony,a toe dipped in the water, the first mouthful aftera fast ― necessary experiences all, with joys oftheir own, but still...
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WOW2: December 2023 Women Trailblazers and Activists – 12-1 thru 12-8
“You don’t know you’re makinghistory when it’s happening. Ijust wanted to do my job.”– Charity Adams Earley,Highest-Ranking Black AmericanWoman Officer of WWII – shefought segregation and...
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Morning Open Thread: It Has an Inner Light … and Changes Us
________________________ “It is the responsibility, yet the individual choice,of each of us to use the light we have to dispelthe work of darkness, because if we do not,then the power of falsehood...
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WOW2: December 2023 Women Trailblazers and Activists – 12-9 thru 12-16
___________________________“Women writers are the custodians of theworld’s best-kept secret. Merely the privatelives of one half of humanity.”– Carolyn Kizer, Pulitzer Prizewinning poet, from Pro...
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Morning Open Thread: The Songs That Tell Our Inmost Hopes
________________________“Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved andblooded with emotions, all held togetherby the delicate, tough skin of words.”―Paul Engle, American poet andIowa Writers’ Workshop...
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WOW2: December 2023 Women Trailblazers and Activists – 12-17 thru 12-24
___________________________“I have to say that the traditionalrole is kind of a myth. I thinkthe traditional Mexican womanis a fierce woman.”– Sandra Cisneros, author ofThe House on Mango...
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Morning Open Thread: The Joy That You Give to Others
________________________“What wisdom can you find thatis greater than kindness?”–Jean-Jacques Rousseau,Swiss-born philosopherand political theorist________________________.Welcome to Morning Open...
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