by Alice Combs | Oct 7, 2020 | Alice Combs, Based on Sex, Grit & Goals Accomplished, Politicians, Triumph over Discrimination
The First Woman to Lie in State at Our Capitol Glass-ceiling breaker Ruth Bader Ginsburg (aka RBG) was the first female Jewish Supreme Court justice. She was fortunate that her parents encouraged her to get a B.A., and were able to pay for it. Her father was an...
by Alice Combs | Jun 3, 2020 | Entrepreneurs, Grit & Goals Accomplished
Now that I’ve mentioned four books about perseverance authored by women, I’ll throw in a biography of a man written by another man, The Monk of Mokha by Dave Eggers. The protagonist, Mokhtar Alkhanshari, was born in America to parents from Yemen, a war-torn Arabian...
by Alice Combs | May 20, 2020 | Grit & Goals Accomplished
Julissa Arce’s My (underground) American Dream reminds me of The Lady with Balls. Julissa, a Mexican beauty, was an undocumented immigrant till her mid-twenties. She falsified her social-security information, and I falsified my W-2. We both committed felonies so as to...
by Alice Combs | May 6, 2020 | Grit & Goals Accomplished
Here are three books that are similar to The Lady with Balls: Grit by Angela Duckworth has the same theme: perseverance in working toward one’s goal despite all obstacles, whether self-imposed or environmental. My story illustrates many mistakes—both in romance and...
