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Fierce Friday: Celestine Davis

April 17, 2020 by Gabrielle Brant Freeman in blog, Fierce Friday, poetry

“I want [people] to understand that it is everyone’s responsibility to be visionaries and socio-political activists to engage, instruct, and inspire our communities to become better. Age, occupation, education, or income level should not limit one’s sense of responsibility to help create a better world.” Celestine Davis

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April 17, 2020 /Gabrielle Brant Freeman
poetry, fierce women, Fierce Friday, activism, visionary, NC Poetry Society
blog, Fierce Friday, poetry

Fierce Friday: Cassie Premo Steele

April 10, 2020 by Gabrielle Brant Freeman in Fierce Friday, poetry, blog

“ This year, as we stay home and dig deeper into the earth, I am writing in a way that allows me to say things as if they were the last things I would say.” Cassie Premo Steele

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April 10, 2020 /Gabrielle Brant Freeman
poetry, poet, ecofeminist, novelist, TEDx, Fierce Friday, fierce women
Fierce Friday, poetry, blog

Fierce Friday: Malaika King Albrecht

February 23, 2018 by Gabrielle Brant Freeman in Fierce Friday, poetry

"If someone hit me on the head with a frying pan, no one would confuse that with cooking. And damn sure no one would ask me if I enjoyed the meal..."

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February 23, 2018 /Gabrielle Brant Freeman
poetry, poets, Heart of Pamlico Poet Laureate, Rocking Horse Ranch, Malaika King Albrecht, Press 53, Main Street Rag, Fierce Friday, women's rights, strong women, #resist
Fierce Friday, poetry

Fierce Friday: Jennifer Thielen

March 17, 2017 by Gabrielle Brant Freeman in Fierce Friday

"One of the underlying principles that guides my moral framework is the inherent worth and dignity of every person.  That means that people don’t have to meet some kind of threshold, they don’t have to look like me, think like me or worship like me in order to gain their worth, it is part of them just because they exist." Jennifer Thielen

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March 17, 2017 /Gabrielle Brant Freeman
Jennifer Thielen, Fierce Friday, Universalist Unitarian, Unitarian Universalist, Crossfit, women's rights, LGBTQIA
Fierce Friday

Fierce Friday: Leslie Pietrzyk

March 03, 2017 by Gabrielle Brant Freeman in Fierce Friday, fiction

"It seems sort of crazy to say that my proudest accomplishment is being stubborn. But without stubbornness (or its kinder cousin, perseverance) I can’t imagine that anything I value having achieved would have come about." Leslie Pietrzyk

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March 03, 2017 /Gabrielle Brant Freeman
fiction, Leslie Pietrzyk, writing, Fierce Friday, strong women, This Angel on My Chest
Fierce Friday, fiction
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Fierce Friday: Margaret Bauer

February 17, 2017 by Gabrielle Brant Freeman in Fierce Friday

"People think I’m outspoken, but I have nothing on [Dorothy Scura]. The best lesson she taught me was to support other women." Margaret Bauer

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February 17, 2017 /Gabrielle Brant Freeman
North Carolina Literary Review, NCLR, Margaret Bauer, Scarlett O'Hara, creative non-fiction, Fierce Friday, strong women
Fierce Friday

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