The discussions about gender were more congenial to me than the groups that confronted the problems heterosexual relations posed for women committed to some form of the revolution.
Teaching Girls
A small school in a southern city where girls were usually curbed physically or mentally, the Louisville Collegiate School for Girls and its teachers did not deal in… limits. My years there started me on my way as a writer.
Galentine’s Day and Our Great Leaders
My only problem with this pleasantly mad-cap idea is that it seems to focus on friendships between ladies…
Caught in the Act
One of the most notable differences between women and men in public life is we seem to know better how to avoid scandal.
Cuba… What Can I Say? (2)
I have more questions, most of them unanswered, which adds a piquancy to the beautiful aquamarine seas through which we are traveling off the south coast of Cuba.
Cuba… What Can I Say?
I feel an affinity with what I can see of Cuban life today and what I know this island had gone through.
Kentucky Boys
It was only words. But words have gotten us where we are now.
Making Money off Poison
The cliche, “All great fortunes are founded on a crime” is true more often than not.
Mary Oliver Is Dead
Her gift seems simple and yet it is neither simple nor common but the “confiding intimacy” of her great poems.
The Work of Rose B. Simpson: Woman Warrior
Rose Simpson’s warrior women become women of flesh and blood… this is a fearsome prospect for some, maybe many, women.