{a debt to a woman}

 

"Every man or woman who is sane, every man or woman who has the feeling of being a person in the world, and for whom the world means something, 

every happy person, is in infinite debt to a woman."

-Donald Winnicott

English pediatrician and psychoanalyst 

{as featured in the wonderful brainpickings by Maria Popova}

{The 19th Amendment....}

On this day in 1920, the 19th Amendment was ratified, granting American women the vote.
"May we never forget the plight," reminds Maria Popova of 'Brain Pickings'....who also shared these anti-suffragette postcards from the early 20th century (yikes!) ...which she calls "a brief pictorial history of socially sanctioned sexism."

And may we never forget the courage of so many women.... Thank you!   

{Speaking Truth to Power}

I love Maria Popova's blog "Brain Pickings"....I so appreciate this wonderful soul's range of research and reading it takes to compile such a vast library of old and new wisdom—chock full of heart!! (This is what the Internet was 'invented' for....to store and share the world's wisdom!)

Don't miss Maria's post, "The Writing of Silent Spring: Rachel Carson and the Culture-Shifting Courage to Speak Inconvenient Truth to Power." Rachel wrote in the 1960s:

It is, in the deepest sense, a privilege as well as a duty to have the opportunity to speak out—to many thousands of people—on something so important.

Rachel Carson—and Maria Popova—are indeed extraordinary women to tell our daughters about! Deep appreciation to them both.