Doom and gloom is not all this
woman sees as she writes about “Women’s Legacy”. Women have found joy in their
pursuits and they have learned to excel to remarkable degrees.
I love the story of Beatrix
Potter who despite being denied recognition in her botany work she became
famous as an artist, author and environmentalist. Her legacy to her chosen area
of England has been an incredible boon to the land, sheep and tourism! Children
around the world adore her little books, made for their little hands. How
creative was Beatrix? WOW
Laura Ingalls Wilder created a
series of pioneer stories that has resonated with generations of children (and
adults) and inspired a beloved television series that is still rerun today. It’s
a memoir that includes nuggets of pioneer life such as making butter and
cheese, making straw sunhats an d butchering a pig and using all the parts for
something edible. In “Farmer Boy” Wilder
describes her husband’s boyhood on an Eastern farm and how different peddlers
came to the home to buy, sell and trade goods.
It is a wonderful rendition of “olden days”.
Edith Holden and her sisters were
successful artists and naturalists. Those
who read my blog know how much I love Jessie Wilcox Smith’s art. Georgia O’Keefe’s bold art was ground
breaking as was Frida Kahlo’s. Coco
Chanel, Mary Kay, Elizabeth Arden, Helene Rubinstein and Kate Spade were women
who took their own path in fashion and beauty.
My favorite mystery writers are
all female, Agatha Christie, Georgette Heyer, Leslie Ford, Mary Roberts
Rinehart and Daphne Du Maurier. Indeed
my favorite authors are also predominantly female including Edna Ferber, Jessamyn
West, Alice Hoffman, Geraldine Brooks, Kate Gibbons, Jodi Picoult and Katherine
Mosby as well as the Brontes and Jane Austen.
No one does horror and suspense like Stephen King but no one does hot
button topics like Jodi Picoult. Her “Nineteen
Minutes” was one of the most powerful books I ever read (I’ve read almost all
of her books).
Women have made their mark in all
the same arenas as men even to the top most levels of power except in the
supposedly “greatest country in the world”.
America.
"Women belong in all places
where decisions are being made... It shouldn't be that women are the
exception." —Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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