Diana Glebova writes for National Review Online about the latest news from former S.C. governor and United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley.
In Nikki Haley’s new book, If You Want Something Done: Leadership Lessons from Bold Women, the former ambassador to the United Nations outlines what it means to be a strong woman in the modern world. Haley draws from historical examples of strong, tenacious women to show that feminism is “working hard and proving you deserve to be in the room,” juxtaposing that approach with the modern-day reliance on “victimhood.”
“Women fought for so long to have the freedom to make their own decisions,” but now, every thought and belief in their lives “are boxed in by a woke mob,” Haley writes in the book, which is being released on October 4.
This “hypocrisy is lost on liberals,” she adds.
To Haley, women like Margaret Thatcher, Israel’s former prime minister Golda Meir, Amelia Earhart, as well human rights advocate Cindy Warmbier, and civil-rights activist Claudette Colvin, among others, are prime examples of women who demonstrated vast reserves of resilience in standing by their goals and values, even when society wanted to silence them.
Human-rights activist Nadia Murad was kidnapped and sold into sex slavery by ISIS; Warmbier lost her son to the dictatorship of North Korea; Colvin was arrested in 1955 for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white person in a segregated bus. The first setback these women faced could have ended their drive — instead, they fought even harder and accomplished more in their lives than they ever could have envisioned.
The book intertwines the biographical stories of these women who didn’t take “no” for an answer with examples from her own life, including snippets from working in the U.N. under former president Donald Trump, to the challenges she faced while campaigning to be the first minority female governor of South Carolina.
