“Experience is a hard teacher because she gives you the test first, the lesson afterwards.” Vernon Sanders Law
“Whenever you detect love growing awake in you, feed it so it may open its eyes further.” Rumi
Here is the proposal for my new book I am writing. I am searching for a great publisher. Pass it along! Lean Out – 100 Ways to Shift Corporate Culture So Women Can Reach the Top by Maureen Fitzgerald, PhD (former policy lawyer) (copyright) “Leaning In” is not enough In her recent best-selling book “Lean
Equal Voice (a non-profit promoting women in politics) has pulled together some great information on our six female premiers. While you are at their website sign up for the campaign school or donate to a great cause. http://www.equalvoice.ca/speaks.cfm
If you read nothing else this year, read these words by bell hooks on forgiveness and Trayvon Martin. Here is an excerpt: “The growing number of gated communities in our nation is but one example of the obsession with safety…. The person who is really the threat here is the home owner who has
I think that one key women’s freedom is to have men take home and child care seriously and carry half the responsibility (or more). We would respect women’s contributions more, we would create more humane workplaces and we would free women to do earn money, do more of what they love and help women not feel like slaves (with no pay) to their homes. Here
“Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.” -Sam Keen.
Thanks Emma Gray for a great article. Here is a quote where she speaks of the research on women and mental illness: “As Freeman and Freeman wrote in their op-ed: “Considering that on the whole women are paid less, find it harder to advance in a career, have to juggle multiple roles, and are
I wish I had said it first: “Lean In” should leverage the movement to bring in policies that support women like paid maternity and paternity leave, affordable childcare, paid sick days and flexible and part-time work hours. Thanks to Yaron Schwartz for writing a great article and mentioning Madeleine Kunin’s book, The New Feminist Agenda. Here is an
“The purpose of our lives is to give birth to the best which is within us.” Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love.