Reads tagged with “women”

Bicycling for Ladies: An Illustrated 1896 Manifesto for the Universal Splendors of the Bicycle as an Instrument of Self-Reliance, a Training Machine for Living with Uncertainty, and a Portal to Joy
“You are at all times independent. This absolute freedom of the cyclist can be known only to the initiated.”

Nellie Bly Makes the News: An Animated Documentary About the Investigative Journalism Pioneer Who Paved the Way for Women in Media
“As the most famous woman journalist of her day, as an early woman industrialist, as a humanitarian… Bly kept the same formula for success: Determine Right. Decide Fast. Apply Energy. Act with Conviction. Fight to the Finish. Accept the Consequences. Move on.”

Rebecca Solnit on Love, Purposeful Work, and the Meaning of Liberty: An Empowered Retelling of Cinderella
“There are a lot of people with a lot of ideas about beauty. And love. When you love someone a lot, they just look like love.”

How Eleanor Roosevelt Revolutionized Politics
“Eleanor Roosevelt, lean and rangy, wore floral dresses and tucked flowers in the brim of floppy hats perched on top of her wavy hair, but she had a spine as stiff as the steel girder of a skyscraper.”

The Original Marriage of Equals: The Love Letters of Feminism Founding Mother Mary Wollstonecraft and Political Philosopher William Godwin
“We love as it were to multiply our consciousness… even at the hazard… of opening new avenues for pain and misery to attack us.”

The Body Politic Electric: Walt Whitman on Women’s Centrality to Democracy
“Have I not said that womanhood involves all? Have I not told how the universe has nothing better than the best womanhood?”

Why We Walk: A Manifesto for Peripatetic Empowerment
“I walk because, somehow, it’s like reading.”

The Universe in Verse: Regina Spektor Reads “Theories of Everything” by Astronomer, Poet, and Tragic Genius Rebecca Elson
Lyrical reflections at the crossroads of truth and meaning.

An Illustrated Celebration of the Rebels, Visionaries, and Fiercely Courageous World-Changers Who Won Women Political Power
150 years of culture-shifting bravery, tenacity, and visionary insurgence to inspire the next generation of leaders.

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