We met one summer in the 1980’s when we were both artists in residence at the remarkable Blue Mountain Center, situated on 1600 acres of woods in the Adirondacks in New York State.
Mothers Are Hurting
The problems have always been with us, but they were easier to ignore when the economy boomed.
Nevertheless She Persisted: 30 Years of Women Writing Women’s Lives
The conference reminded me that we women offer each other extraordinary support and encouragement in all walks of life, essential to our achievement and even to our survival.
Power Corrupts
Are women somehow exempt from the deleterious influence of power? We have so seldom exercised visible power in the past that the question hasn’t been asked.
Being Needed Doesn’t Mean Being Well Paid
I was raised by one of the millions of women who then as well as now fill the most essential U.S. jobs.
In A Dark Time
How ironic and, yet, how strangely fitting, that this flying virus arrives at the middle of Women’s History month and just before the April 7 publication of The Silver Swan…
Votes for Women
In the middle of all the horrors in the U.S. Capitol, we need to remember that much more significant events are happening.
Writing History
There are so many hidden stories that we as writers and readers need to write and to read—and to demand that they be written by women.
Don’t Let Sex Distract You from the Revolution
The discussions about gender were more congenial to me than the groups that confronted the problems heterosexual relations posed for women committed to some form of the revolution.
Galentine’s Day and Our Great Leaders
My only problem with this pleasantly mad-cap idea is that it seems to focus on friendships between ladies…