I am so excited that Dr. Johnnetta Cole is going to be speaking at this year’s Leadership Luncheon. I admire her and the work she is doing tremendously.
Last summer, I had the honor of getting to participate in her work directly, when I spoke at the Johnnetta B. Cole Global Diversity and Inclusion Institute’s Power Girls Summit. As a gift after the summit, I received a wonderful, inspiring book of quotations by Dr. Cole, Dream the Boldest Dreams: And Other Lessons of Life.
I thought I’d share a few of my favorites from the chapter called "Women" to help set the stage for the treat we’re in for with Dr. Cole speaking at our luncheon next week. We’ve been talking a lot about her, but here are a few quotes that establish her ideas about women and women’s equality in her own voice:
The higher the pay, the less likely it’s going to be called women’s work.
It has been said: If you educate a man, you educate a man. If you educate a woman, you educate a nation.
We could stop a lot of things from falling if we just let women hold up half the sky.
A truly determined woman will succeed in doing what society has determined she is incapable of doing.
For us women folks, the distance between where we’ve been and where we’re going is surely determined by the speed at which we insist on going.
At The Women’s Foundation, we’re all about speeding things up for our region’s women and girls, and we’re thrilled to have Dr. Cole with us at this year’s Leadership Luncheon as we celebrate 10 years of our community’s efforts to close the gap between we’ve been and where we’re going!
Jennifer Cortner is president of EFX Media, and a member of The Women’s Foundation’s board of directors.
