Virginia Woolf: £500 and A Room of Her Own
A woman must have money and a room of her own. -Virginia Woolf, 1929 Why do women stay in violent relationships? Money. The gilded cage traps birds of all feathers. Children […]
Category Archives: Life Rafts
Dr. Christine McFadden: Love Dispensed Here
Christine McFadden, DVM It was just to destroy me. – Dr. Christine McFadden She went out for a morning walk with her best friend, Amy Velasquez, and came home to find all four of […]
Sally Field: Award-Winning Actress and Vital Voice for Women
If the mothers ruled the world, there would be no goddamn wars in the first place! – Sally Field Sally Field seems to perpetually be one of the […]
Virginia Clinton Kelley: Leading with My Heart (Book Review + More)
I’m friendly, I’m outgoing, and I like men. – Virginia Clinton Kelley First Mother Virginia Dell Cassidy Blythe Clinton Dwire Kelley bubbled with life. She survived child abuse and domestic violence, […]
Dr. Robin L. Smith: The Truth About Great Marriages (Book Review + More)
I have known what it is to live a lie ~ to want so badly to keep a relationship that I made myself invisible. . . I would like to […]
Martha Beck: Leaving the Saints (Book Review)
You can recognize enlightenment because it always tastes of freedom. – Martha Nibley Beck, Ph.D. Martha Nibley Beck, Ph.D. is a frequent Oprah contributor and has written several books. Leaving the […]
Carlene Cross: Fleeing Fundamentalism (Book Review)
Job, education, emancipation. . .my new mantra. I was getting out. – Carlene Cross Carlene Cross wanted to write about the history of fundamentalism, but her publisher thought her book should […]
Michele Weldon: I Closed My Eyes & Writing to Save Your Life (Book Reviews + More)
I have won because I have won myself back. I claim me. – Michele Weldon Michele Weldon has survived domestic violence and breast cancer. She is passionately vocal about fathers who […]
Robin Givens: Grace Will Lead me Home (Book Review + More)
Use your smile to change the world, don’t let the world change your smile! – Robin Simone Givens “Amazing Grace” is the theme of Robin Given’s compelling memoir, Grace Will […]
RIP, Gordon and Norma Stark Yeager: 72 Years of Devotion and Love
I have to stick around. I can’t go until she does because I have to stay here for her and she would say the same thing. – Gordon Yeager On […]
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