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Author Insight
Slow and Steady to the Goal
My favorite fable is Turtle and Hare because I think of myself as a turtle, slow and steady, and somehow, finally, understanding what I know is true, not what I read or was told. My voice is important. We must use the female voices from our grandmothers and our mothers that resonate equality in our bones. The females can re-image time, scenes, place, characters, and events to enhance, resonate, and vitalize stories in a female voice about what happens for her. Today is the time for female storytellers and writers to reappraise the stories told in the twelfth to the eighteen centuries and even today written by males. Today is the day for women, ladies, the damsels to tell traditional stories in female narratives to understand what women feel, see, sense, and live from her point of view.
Book Excerpt
Damsels Overcome
The fable Tortoise and the Hare re-imaged:
Jack Rabbit one day ridiculed Turtle: “Hey shorty, with these short legs…Your slow pace with that house on your back…You are as slow as a snail.”
Turtle laughed. "Jack Rabbit, though you are swift as the wind with your long back legs, I could beat you in a race." The Hare believed Turtle’s assertion to be simply impossible. Jack Rabbit laughed, “I challenge you the slowest of slow to a race. Turtle agreed. “A race to the finish.”
Fox, who watched, offered, “I shall choose the course and fix the goal so all is fair.” Both agreed. Other animals had suggestions for Fox, and finally, the course finished, so each had a fair and equal chance.
On the day appointed, Jack Rabbit and Turtle started together on the starting line at the same time. Turtle never for a moment stopped her slow, steady pace straight to the goal.
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