Dear Followers, Today's remarkable woman, managed to combine the multiple careers of wife, mother, author and activist long before doing so was fashionable. Pearl Buck won the Pulitzer Prize in 1932 for her best-selling novel The Good Earth, and in 1938 she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for her "rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China and for her biographical masterpieces." The daughter of Caroline and Absalom … [Read more...]
65: The Self Empowered Woman: Ayaan Hirsi Ali
June 9, 2010 By
Dear Followers: Can't believe that it's already June! Today I'd like to share the story of a remarkable 40 year old woman who has risked everything in order to work as an outspoken, prominent critic of Islam. Ayaan Hirsi Ali was born on November 13th (my birthday) in 1969 in Mogadishu, Somalia. Her father was politically active and because of his opposition to the Siad Barre government he was imprisoned (1: Non Existent Paternal Safety … [Read more...]
64: The Self Empowered Woman: Dayniah Manderson
May 30, 2010 By
Dear Followers, As the wonderful readers of this blog know, one of my objectives is to introduce them to a wide variety of amazing women. I'm always on the lookout for women from different backgrounds , with unique stories, and inspiring qualities. 2010 is my 20th year as a wheelchair-dependent person, so Dayniah Manderson's story affected me in a special way. I think you'll also be amazed by her story... Dayniah, who is 30 years old, … [Read more...]
63: The Self-Empowered Woman: Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen)
May 16, 2010 By
Dear Followers, In an effort to continue the international flavor of this blog, today's Self-Empowered Woman is Isak Dinesen (born Karen Christenze Dinesen) the Danish author who brought us "Out of Africa," "Babette's Feast," and "Seven Gothic Tales." While some of Dinesen's work was published posthumously, she is considered the author of 17 notable works of literature. She was portrayed by Meryl Streep in the film "Out of Africa," which won … [Read more...]
62: The Self-Empowered Woman: Natalie Randolph
May 11, 2010 By
Dear Followers, Here's a story about a young woman who is a real trailblazer. There are 15,675 public and private high school football coaches in America today, but Natalie Randolph, 30, is the only woman to hold that position (11: Risk Addiction). Back in 1985, Wanda Oates was named head football coach at Washington D.C.'s Ballou High School, but she only lasted one day because opposing coaches refused to play against her. She filed a sex … [Read more...]
61: The Self-Empowered Woman: Mother’s Day
May 8, 2010 By
Dear Followers, Even though Julia Ward Howe (the author of The Battle Hymn of the Republic) first made a "Mother's Day Proclamation" in 1870, the woman pictured above (Anna Jarvis) is considered to be the official founder of Mother's Day. Her own mother, Ann Marie Jarvis had been active in "Mother's Day Work Clubs," which had been established before the Civil War. Born the ninth of eleven children on May 1st 1864, in West Virginia, Jarvis … [Read more...]
60: The Self-Empowered Woman: Qatar
May 1, 2010 By
Dear Followers, Today's post is part of my never-ending quest to share stories about women's lives from all around the world. In the past 58 blogs, we've met amazing achievers from Cambodia, Chile, Cuba, England, Kenya, Nigeria, Yemen, and the U.S. among others. The story of Hayat Khalil Hassan Nazar Heji is remarkable for a number of reasons. She is a 34 year old blind woman who lives in the conservative Muslim city of Doha, Qatar. Because of … [Read more...]
59: The Self-Empowered Woman: Edith Holden
April 24, 2010 By
Dear Followers, Today I'd like to introduce you to an artistic woman who was born during Queen Victoria's reign, died in 1920, and half a century after her death became known around the world for her posthumously published book "The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady." Edith Blackwell Holden was born in 1871, and her family consisted of four sisters and two brothers. Her mother, a Unitarian, wrote two little … [Read more...]
58: The Self-Empowered Woman: Statistics
April 18, 2010 By
Dear Followers, For a change of pace, today there will be no "profile" of a woman worth getting to know. Instead, I'm going to share a few thought-provoking statistics (thanks to Betsy Towner).... From 1479 till 1458 B.C. a female Pharaoh (Hatshepsut) reigned in Egypt The first woman to earn a medical degree, in 1849, was Elizabeth Blackwell Over 10 million women own businesses in the U.S. … [Read more...]
57:The Self-Empowered Woman: Mu Sochua
April 10, 2010 By
Dear Followers, In recent blogs, we've met astronauts, authors, a singer, a nurse and a nun, and today I'd like to introduce you to a remarkable woman whose life experiences have taken her from Cambodia to California, Paris, Italy and back to Cambodia to work as a political activist on behalf of women. Mu Sochua, who is the most prominent female member of Cambodia's Parliament, was born in Phnom Penh in 1954, and was sent to California in … [Read more...]
