Tag: Women’s History Month
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Women’s History Month: Madeleine L’Engle
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Read More: Women’s History Month: Madeleine L’EngleMadeleine L’Engle is best known for her young adult fiction, books that reflect both her Christian faith and her strong interest in science. Some interesting facts about her and her work: She wrote her first book at age five and started keeping a journal at eight. For many years, she wrote and…
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Motivation Monday, from famous Women Authors
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Read More: Motivation Monday, from famous Women AuthorsIn light of this year’s Women’s History month theme, “Nevertheless She Persisted: Honoring Women Who Fight All Forms of Discrimination Against Women,” we found some powerful quotes about persistence we wanted to share with you, to offer you some motivation to persevere on this windy Monday. “You may…
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Women’s History Month: Elizabeth Warren and Coretta Scott King
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Read More: Women’s History Month: Elizabeth Warren and Coretta Scott KingThe theme for Women’s History Month 2018 is Nevertheless She Persisted: Honoring Women Who Fight All Forms of Discrimination Against Women. The origins of that phrase, “nevertheless she persisted” can be traced to February 2017 when “Senator Elizabeth Warren was silenced during Jeff Sessions’ confirmation hearing for Attorney General. At…
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Women’s History Month: Elizabeth Warren and Coretta Scott King
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Read More: Women’s History Month: Elizabeth Warren and Coretta Scott KingThe theme for Women’s History Month 2018 is Nevertheless She Persisted: Honoring Women Who Fight All Forms of Discrimination Against Women. The origins of that phrase, “nevertheless she persisted” can be traced to February 2017 when “Senator Elizabeth Warren was silenced during Jeff Sessions’ confirmation hearing for Attorney General. At…
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Women’s History Month 2018
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Read More: Women’s History Month 2018Celebrated in March to coincide with International Women’s Day on the 6th, Women’s History Month highlights the contributions of women to events in history and contemporary society. This year’s national theme is “Nevertheless She Persisted: Honoring Women Who Fight All Forms of Discrimination Against Women” and here on the blog, similarly to how we…
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Women's History Month: Emily Dickinson
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Read More: Women's History Month: Emily DickinsonPoet Emily Dickinson was born in 1930 in Amherst, Massachusetts. Although she was not famous during her lifetime—only seven of her almost 1800 poems were published while she lived, all heavily edited—she became known after her death as one of the most influential American poets. Dickinson grew up in a…
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Women's History Month: Laura Ingalls Wilder
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Read More: Women's History Month: Laura Ingalls Wilder~from intern Joyce Bohling I was raised on Little House on the Prairie books by Laura Ingalls Wilder. My mother would read the books to me each evening at bedtime. I had the Little House paper dolls and even, once, picked up the Little House cookbook in the children’s section…
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Women's History Month: Judith Butler
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Read More: Women's History Month: Judith ButlerPhilosopher and gender theorist Judith Butler was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1956. Surrounded by the Hungarian and Russian Jewish traditions of her family, Butler attended a Hebrew school and took special classes on Jewish ethics. This education was the beginning of Butler’s introduction to philosophy. In an interview with Haaretz,…
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Women's History Month: Harper Lee
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Read More: Women's History Month: Harper LeeHarper Lee (born Nelle Harper Lee) was born in 1926 in Monroeville, Alabama. After attending the all-female Huntingdon College in Montgomery, she transferred to the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa where she pursued English literature. Lee spent a year working towards the university’s law degree as an undergrad, but decided…
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Women's History Month: Margaret Sanger
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Read More: Women's History Month: Margaret SangerMargaret Sanger was a feminist, nurse, activist, writer, and national and international advocate for women’s access to contraception. Sanger was born Margaret Higgins to an Irish-American family in 1879; she had ten siblings. She studied to become a nurse practitioner and began working toward a registered nursing degree at White…