I want to be remembered as someone who used herself and anything she could touch to work for justice and freedom…. I want to be remembered as one who tried. ~Dorothy Height From About.com: Height was one of the few women to participate at the highest levels of the civil rights movement, with such others as A. Philip Randolph, Martin Luther King, jr., and Whitney Young. At the 1963 March on Washington, she was on the platform when Dr. King delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech. Dorothy...
Mary Daly, 1928 to 2010 By Linda Barufaldi The leading feminist philosopher and theorist died January 3. Here, her friend and former student explains the extraordinary reach of Mary Daly’s fierce intelligence and strong will. January 11, 2010 In the seventies some of Mary Daly’s graduate students began calling her Doctors Daly because she had three doctorates, one from Notre Dame, and two, in theology and in philosophy, from the University of Fribourg in Switzerland. At the uber-catholic and...
There are days when I ponder the big picture, when I try to determine who I am, where I’m going and how I can help the world. Then there are times when I try to figure out what I like better… women or boobs.If I had a dollar for each minute that involved thinking about women, boobs, or women’s boobs, I would be a rich, rich lady. In particular, I love how women join together to help each other, and I especially love watching this happen online, where I have a tiny piece of that...
