Women's Voices For Change

Gay Culverhouse, a Grandmother Who Speaks Truth to NFL Power

Instantly noticeable among the dark suits at the House Judiciary Committee hearing two weeks ago, Gay Culverhouse stood out in her purple dress, but even more for what she said. [...]

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Making It to 92

All the doctors sang the same tune, “You’re getting older.” Generally, I didn’t think I looked or felt like I was approaching 50, whatever that is suppose to look and [...]

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On Veterans Day, Remembering One Woman’s War

Pulling on her size 4 1/2 combat boots to meet her driver who sped through wartime Italy’s treacherous streets, Sgt. Myrtle Vacirca had no time to reflect on how her [...]

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Veterans Day Poetry Friday: Maxine Hong Kingston

This coming Monday, with “Veterans Day Sales” all over the newspapers, most Americans observe Veterans Day with flags and parades, honoring men and women who have gone to war for the [...]

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Ten Myths About “Bio-identical” Hormones

Bioidentical is not a scientific term. It is a term made up by savvy market research gurus to describe certain plant-derived hormones distributed by compounding pharmacies. The use of the word” [...]

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Melodia Combines Poet Laureate’s Words, Women’s Vocal Power

Thirty years ago, as the 1970s were coming to a close, a young pianist named Cynthia Powell had an impulse not so common among accompanists. “I started to look into [...]

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Gail Collins, Part 2: for women who have “waited” long enough

Gail Collins, author of When Everything Changed: The Amazing Story of American Women From 1960 to the Present, was on a book tour last week mostly to share her amazement [...]

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Breast Cancer: Motherhood, apple pie and the “positive attitude”

I felt I was attacking that pie in my speech on the perils of a positive attitude, but I’m tired of people telling me how to feel. I gave a [...]

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Halloween Poetry Friday: Janet Little

Our Halloween poem comes from a time two centuries after the Scottish witches, below, were first evoked. Janet Little (1759–1813), known to her readers as “the Scotch milkmaid,” wrote in [...]

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The Compass Rose: Dealing With the DMV and Other Tales

My birthday in early October was not particularly noteworthy until I realized it was the day that my North Carolina driver’s license was to expire. For years, I renewed my [...]

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