I hate to write the first line of a disgraceful ditty that I probably said more than once with other girls when I was a fourth or fifth grader. I was ashamed to say it, I knew it was wrong, and yet I did, which is probably the case with all wrongdoing.
Blog Posts about Women and Feminism
Nothing to Fear but Fear Itself
Now that girls are not routinely instructed in fear—of mice, spiders, snakes, and the unknown—our native courage is much in evidence.
5’9″ 235 Pounds
Girls need to learn to play rough, a lesson we may be trying to forget today with our return as mothers and grandmothers to a relentless obsession with our female offsprings’ looks.
More Hopscotch
I can’t go into detail about our plans to preserve Hopscotch; this is complicated legally, and if successful, would be a landmark case, protecting other donors who find that their gifts have been abused by the not-for-profit they trusted.
Fading Away
I’m dismayed to see how rapidly the women’s movement is fading, eclipsed by monstrous wars but also by young women’s failure to engage.
So “They” Let Us Have One Month…
Women’s History Month began without much attention and certainly without fanfare on March 1, 2024 and will end in deafening silence on March 31.
Women Holding Things
As a worldwide conflagration of violence has broken out, we women are not even holding our own. Our voices and faces no longer appear in the news.
Silver Heads
It is with dismay but not surprise that I read a description of the reaction of two “Silver Heads” to Tracy Emin’s panels on the main doors of the National Portrait Gallery in London.
Umbrella
For my daily walk I borrowed a big black umbrella. But—how to open it?
Second Childhood
We’ve spent too many words bewailing the sins committed against us in our childhoods, and they were sins, and they had drastic effects, and that matters; but Sunday when I bought this charming “Winter Fairy” at my church’s St. Nicholas Bazaar, I decided it’s high time to enter into my second childhood…