“I'm not much like my mother; that role falls to my brothers, who have more of her blithe and freewheeling spirit.” SpiritMotherFallRolesBrotherMy BrotherBlithe Author:Meghan O'Rourke
“A person can be big, because of spirit. A person can be big because of their position in the family, the hierarchy in the family. That role has been played by women who are quite thin.” PersonsHas BeensBigsSpiritRolesPositionHierarchy Author:Phylicia Rashad
“I cannot imagine any boy of spirit who would not be delighted to play a drunkard even to vomiting in front of his Sunday school. Indeed, the vomiting might be the chief attraction of the role.” PlayMightSchoolSpiritBoysRolesImagineFrontsAttractionChiefsSundayDelightedDrunkardsSunday SchoolVomiting Author:Robertson Davies
“As women's leadership qualities come to play a more dominant role in the public sphere, their particular aptitudes for long-term negotiating, analytic listening, and creating an ambiance in which people work with zest and spirit will help reconcile the split between the ideals of being efficient and being humane. This integration of female values is already producing a more collaborative kind of leadership, and changing the very ideal of what strong leadership actually is.” PeopleKindLongPlayHelpingSpiritValuesStrongTermLeadershipQualityRolesParticularListeningCreatingFemaleIdealsLong TermSpheresEfficientSplitsDominantBeing HumanIntegrationHumaneReconcileAnalyticsAptitudeNegotiatingZestLeadership QualitiesAmbiance Book:The Female Advantage: Women's Ways of Leadership Source: The Female Advantage: Women's Ways of Leadership
“Maya Jasanoff's Liberty's Exiles places the loyalist experience and the aftermath of the American Revolution in an entirely new light. Alongside the Spirit of 1776, Jasanoff gives us the Spirit of 1783, dedicated to remaking the mighty British Empire, and then offers a stunning reinterpretation of the Loyalists' complicated role in that remaking. Her meticulously researched and superbly written account is historical revision at its finest, and it affirms her place as one of the very finest historians of the rising generation.” GivingLightSpiritLibertyRolesWrittenGenerationsRevolutionOffersAccountsHistoricalComplicatedBritishRisingEmpiresHistorianDedicatedFinestExileAmerican RevolutionStunningBritish EmpireRevisionAftermathLoyalistsReinterpretation Author:Sean Wilentz