True Leader

July 2020 SWG challenge True Leader banner with a picture of Leybah Gbowee

This month, we continue our annual SWG tradition of featuring a challenge with a focus on the many ways that women have improved and enriched the world we live in. This month, we honor those women who served as leaders in varying capacities. Prompts for this challenge will be quotations from women who have served in a leadership role.

You can contact us to be assigned your own prompt, or you can choose one from the list of unassigned prompts below.

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  • “Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.” ~ Golda Meir
  • “Every clique is a refuge for incompetence. It fosters corruption and disloyalty, it begets cowardice, and consequently is a burden upon and a drawback to the progress of the country. Its instincts and actions are those of the pack.” ~ Song Meiling
  • "The way to lose any earthly kingdom is to be inflexible, intolerant and prejudicial. Another way is to be too flexible, tolerant of too many wrongs and without judgment at all. It is a razor’s edge." ~ Queen Lili’uokalani
  • "We are all, as citizens of the world, duty bound to contribute to our utmost ability to the continuing progress of the spirit of humanity." ~Vigdís Finnbogadóttir
  • “Mankind's feeling of responsibility to create a decent life and make it worth living with dignity has always been stronger than the will to kill life.” ~ Tawakkol Karman 
  • “The past cannot be cured.” ~ Elizabeth I
  • “I think men will always find an excuse for keeping women in their 'place.' So let's make that place the executive suite and start more of our own companies.” ~ Jean Bartik
  • “The appeal to the white man's pocket has ever been more effectual than all the appeals ever made to his conscience.” ~ Ida B. Wells
  • “Finally I was able to see that if I had a contribution I wanted to make, I must do it, despite what others said. That I was OK the way I was. That it was all right to be strong.” - Wangari Maathai 
  • “Power is not brute force and money; power is in your spirit. Power is in your soul. It is what your ancestors, your old people gave you. Power is in the earth; it is in your relationship to the earth.” - Winona LaDuke

 

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Aurora: What Cold, Clear Air May Show by Lferion

Having traveled North and up a mountain in Aman, Fingon builds himself a house, and works on putting himself back together. A drabble sequence. Follows Aurora: Seeking the Northern Sky.

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A view from two sides of a mirror, and what happens when those trapped are freed.

A Drabble sequence: 1,2,2,1.

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Drabble Poems by Lferion

Poems that are drabbles, drabbles that are poems.

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Beneath a Silver Tree by Marta

"”Now it is told that in the bearing of her son Míriel was consumed in spirit and body; and that after his birth she yearned for rest from the labour of living. And she said to Finwë ‘Never again shall I bear a child; for strength that would have nourished the life of many have gone forth into Fëanáro.’ Then Manwë granted the prayer of Míriel. And she went to Lorien, and laid her down to sleep upon a bed of flowers [>beneath a silver tree]; and there her fair body remained unwithered in the keeping of the maidens of Estë."

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Maglor and his wife throughout the Ages.

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Inzilbeth, daughter of Lindorie of Andunie, struggles to maintain her childhood faith, when she is pressured into marriage with Gimilzor, prospective heir to the throne of Numenor, and finds herself surrounded by fervent adherents of the King's Party at court.

The birth of her elder son, the future Tar-Palantir, gives her hope.

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Turning by Tethys Resort

King Thingol sets the doom of Doriath into motion.  And Galadriel and Celeborn argue. 

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Roots, knowledge, and pain, a tangle of possibility

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The Weaver's Knot. by hennethgalad

Vairë speaks to Tuor, and to Lúthien.

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"I can, of course, think what I want, just like everyone else. I simply have to refrain from saying everything I think." ~ Margrethe II of Denmark

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Pages from the Archives of Cîr Imladris by Lferion

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