If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one. -Dolly Parton
What She Said, October 1: Dolly Parton
Alice Fairfax
A published author and professional actor, Alice holds a BA from Rollins College and a certificate in Creativity & Innovation from the Walt Disney Company and Harvard Business School. She coaches businesses and individuals on telling your best story, discovering your creativity and challenging your thinking.
Alice shares the funny and amazing stories about parenting Henry, her adult son who has autism and is a talk show host. Think Anne LaMott and Bette Midler raising the offspring of Rainman and David Letterman. Find her at HenryandhisMom.com
What She Said, September 30: Sonya Renee Taylor
We will not go back to normal. Normal never was. Our pre-corona existence was not normal other than we normalized greed, inequity, exhaustion, depletion, extraction, disconnection, confusion, rage, hoarding, hate and lack. We should not long to return, my friends. We are being given the opportunity to stitch a new garment. One that fits all of humanity and nature. -Sonya Renee Taylor
What She Said, September 29: Harriet Tubman
I had reasoned this out in my mind; there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty, or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other. -Harriet Tubman
What She Said, September 28: Blair Imani
Sometimes privilege looks like being able to ignore a crisis that others are dying from. -Blair Imani
What She Said, September 6: Madeleine L’Engle
Our truest response to the irrationality of the world is to paint or sing or write, for only in such repose do we find truth. – Madeleine L’Engle
What She Said, September 5: Amy Sherald
I paint as a way of looking for myself in the world. – Amy Sherald
What She Said, September 4: Faith Ringgold
You can’t sit around and wait for somebody to say who you are. You need to write it and paint it and do it. – Faith Ringgold
What She Said, September 3: Njideka Akunyili Crosby
You don’t exist if you’re not represented… I felt a need to claim my own social existence by making the representation happen. – Njideka Akunyili Crosby
What She Said, September 2: Patti Smith
Nobody says “Picasso, the male artist.” – Patti Smith
What She Said, September 1: Beatrix Potter
Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest. -Beatrix Potter
