Author: Candace Doby
Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire
ISBN: 9781728246482
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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An inspirational self-love workbook filled with over 130 empowering quotes and journal prompts for teen girls to find their courage and build confidence. This is your courage speaking. It's time to put your fear in its place and make it behave. No more surrendering to that whiny little voice telling you that you can't do what you dream of or be who you want to be. It's time to show the world--and YOU--what you're made of. No matter what goal you're after--creating new art, traveling the world, or standing up to someone who's been putting you down--you'll find your Courage in this inspirational book to help you discover who you are and who you can become. So, go ahead, girl. Get your side-eye ready. You've got things to do, and your fear is not going to stop you. Makes an incredible gift for: Birthdays for daughters and nieces Middle school graduation Just because
Author: Reshma Saujani
Publisher: Currency
ISBN: 1524762334
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 210
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INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • Inspired by her popular TED Talk, the founder and CEO of Girls Who Code urges women to embrace imperfection and live a bolder, more authentic life. “A timely message for women of all ages: Perfection isn’t just impossible but, worse, insidious.”—Angela Duckworth, bestselling author of Grit Imagine if you lived without the fear of not being good enough. If you didn’t care how your life looked on Instagram. If you could let go of the guilt and stop beating yourself up for making human mistakes. Imagine if, in every decision you faced, you took the bolder path? As women, too many of us feel crushed under the weight of our own expectations. We run ourselves ragged trying to please everyone, pass up opportunities that scare us, and avoid rejection at all costs. There’s a reason we act this way, Saujani says. As girls, we were taught to play it safe. Well-meaning parents and teachers praised us for being quiet and polite, urged us to be careful so we didn’t get hurt, and steered us to activities at which we could shine. As a result, we grew up to be women who are afraid to fail. It’s time to stop letting our fears drown out our dreams and narrow our world, along with our chance at happiness. By choosing bravery over perfection, we can find the power to claim our voice, to leave behind what makes us unhappy, and to go for the things we genuinely, passionately want. Perfection may set us on a path that feels safe, but bravery leads us to the one we’re authentically meant to follow. In Brave, Not Perfect,Saujani shares powerful insights and practices to help us let go of our need for perfection and make bravery a lifelong habit. By being brave, not perfect, we can all become the authors of our best and most joyful life.
Author: Karen A. Waldron
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
ISBN: 1574412337
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 383
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This unique collection of narratives, essays, and poems includes an original interview with Maya Angelou and pieces by Naomi Shihab Nye, Pat Mora, Rosemary Catacalos, and many others. Each work relates how women have demonstrated courage by taking a risk that has changed their lives. The Introduction explores courage not as a battlefield quality, but as the result of thoughtful choices demonstrating integrity and self-awareness. Each section opens with a description of its organization and the significance of individual pieces. Themes include sustenance for living, faith in the unknown, the courage of choice, the seams of our lives, and crossing borders. The book begins with a conversation with Dr. Maya Angelou, the embodiment of a courageous woman. She urges readers to "Envision" and concludes the book with the wish "Good morning," inviting all to join her in a new day reflecting "The Power of One." Voices of racial and ethnic diversity speak throughout the work, underscoring both difference and unity in the female experience. Including role models for university audiences and powerful reflections of life experiences for older readers, this work serves many purposes: a textbook in Literature or Women's/Gender Studies classes, a focus for book study groups, and a source for providing perspective during quiet moments. All net proceeds from book sales will go to the WINGS nonprofit organization, recipient of Oprah's Angel Network award, providing uninsured women with free breast cancer surgery, radiation, counseling, and follow-up treatments such as chemotherapy.
Author: Hillary Rodham Clinton
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 1501178415
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 464
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Now an eight-part docuseries on Apple TV+ Hillary Rodham Clinton and her daughter, Chelsea, share the stories of the gutsy women who have inspired them—women with the courage to stand up to the status quo, ask hard questions, and get the job done. She couldn’t have been more than seven or eight years old. “Go ahead, ask your question,” her father urged, nudging her forward. She smiled shyly and said, “You’re my hero. Who’s yours?” Many people—especially girls—have asked us that same question over the years. It’s one of our favorite topics. HILLARY: Growing up, I knew hardly any women who worked outside the home. So I looked to my mother, my teachers, and the pages of Life magazine for inspiration. After learning that Amelia Earhart kept a scrapbook with newspaper articles about successful women in male-dominated jobs, I started a scrapbook of my own. Long after I stopped clipping articles, I continued to seek out stories of women who seemed to be redefining what was possible. CHELSEA: This book is the continuation of a conversation the two of us have been having since I was little. For me, too, my mom was a hero; so were my grandmothers. My early teachers were also women. But I grew up in a world very different from theirs. My pediatrician was a woman, and so was the first mayor of Little Rock who I remember from my childhood. Most of my close friends’ moms worked outside the home as nurses, doctors, teachers, professors, and in business. And women were going into space and breaking records here on Earth. Ensuring the rights and opportunities of women and girls remains a big piece of the unfinished business of the twenty-first century. While there’s a lot of work to do, we know that throughout history and around the globe women have overcome the toughest resistance imaginable to win victories that have made progress possible for all of us. That is the achievement of each of the women in this book. So how did they do it? The answers are as unique as the women themselves. Civil rights activist Dorothy Height, LGBTQ trailblazer Edie Windsor, and swimmer Diana Nyad kept pushing forward, no matter what. Writers like Rachel Carson and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie named something no one had dared talk about before. Historian Mary Beard used wit to open doors that were once closed, and Wangari Maathai, who sparked a movement to plant trees, understood the power of role modeling. Harriet Tubman and Malala Yousafzai looked fear in the face and persevered. Nearly every single one of these women was fiercely optimistic—they had faith that their actions could make a difference. And they were right. To us, they are all gutsy women—leaders with the courage to stand up to the status quo, ask hard questions, and get the job done. So in the moments when the long haul seems awfully long, we hope you will draw strength from these stories. We do. Because if history shows one thing, it’s that the world needs gutsy women.
Author: Jennifer Moss Breen
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN: 1839824220
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 400
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Women Courageous: Leading through the Labyrinth is a unique collection of stories of courage, integrated with scholarly analysis to deepen our understanding of courage - how it shows up, develops, and facilitates transformation.
Author: Mary Ellen Sinclair
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1532001185
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 236
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Mary Ellen seems like a girl who comes from a normal family. She has a mother and father and little sisters. She has dreams for the future. Yet, her childhood is different in a secret, horrible way. Her father can be a warm, comforting presence when hes in a good mood, but when hes in a bad mood, he becomes a monster who abuses her. She fantasizes about a future with a quiet, peaceful apartment of her own and even a husband. She researches and finds out that what her father does is a sign of illness. Knowing that her father is sick, she struggles to keep her family together yet find a way to escape his abuse. As she grows up, she does indeed fulfill her dreams and finds a man to love herbut how much of her past can she share? She goes into therapy, but again, the guilt over her fathers actions and leaving her mother and sisters feels impossible to overcome. Through her struggle to survive, Mary Ellen fights bravely to move beyond the past and find personal happiness in a life all her own, despite an abusive beginning.
Author: Terra A. Mattson
Publisher: David C Cook
ISBN: 143471263X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 270
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The stakes have never been higher as daughters of every age are navigating a world of hyper-sexualization, social media hangover, extreme loneliness, and a flood of confusing messages. Whether readers desire to know more of who they are created to be or are raising daughters who are just beginning their own journeys, Courageous leads women and those they love through transformation as they experience: confidence in who God made them to be resiliency regardless of circumstances faithfulness to God's heartbeat bold living through faith-filled risk-taking the joy of finding their voice and then using it for the voiceless vibrant community with other daughters Crafted with biblical wisdom, professional insights, and personal stories, Courageous explores the core concerns that plague every woman's relationship with God, self, and others. Terra Mattson invites women and girls to join a global movement of Courageous Girls as they discover an empowered sense of purpose and an identity rooted in God's grace so they can love and be loved like never before.
Author: Stacy Mitch
Publisher: Emmaus Road Publishing
ISBN: 193101809X
Category : Catholic women
Languages : en
Pages : 136
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Courageous Women, Stacy Mitch¿s newest Bible study, will help you see the women of the Bible as elder sisters in faith. As Stacy unfolds the stories of these heroic women through insightful reflections and questions, you will understand salvation history more deeply, be challenged to grow in godliness, and discover that the struggles these women faced are strikingly similar to those we face today. These courageous women will teach you timeless lessons of faithfulness to God and reliance on His help.
Author: Joanna Halpert Kraus
Publisher: Dramatic Publishing
ISBN: 9780871299420
Category : Children's plays
Languages : en
Pages : 358
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Author: Michelle Markel
Publisher: Balzer + Bray
ISBN: 9780061804427
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The true story of the young immigrant who led the largest strike of women workers in U.S. history. This picture book biography about Ukrainian immigrant Clara Lemlich tackles topics like activism and the U.S. garment industry. The art, by Caldecott Honor winner Melissa Sweet, beautifully incorporates stitching and fabric. A bibliography and an author's note on the garment industry are included. When Clara arrived in America, she couldn't speak English. She didn't know that young women had to go to work, that they traded an education for long hours of labor, that she was expected to grow up fast. But that didn't stop Clara. She went to night school, spent hours studying English, and helped support her family by sewing in a shirtwaist factory. Clara never quit, and she never accepted that girls should be treated poorly and paid little. Fed up with the mistreatment of her fellow laborers, Clara led the largest walkout of women workers the country had seen. From her short time in America, Clara learned that everyone deserved a fair chance. That you had to stand together and fight for what you wanted. And, most importantly, that you could do anything you put your mind to. This picture book biography about the plight of immigrants in America in the early 1900s and the timeless fight for equality and justice should not be missed.
