Oregon State Library Association Quarterly| Summer 2009, Vol. 15, No. 2 Oregon’s Passage of the Equal Rights Amendment – Excerpts from With Grit and By Grace Mary Ginnane, Oregon State Library Association President and guest editor for this issue of the Quarterly, makes a comparison between Stubborn Twig (authored by Lauren Kessler and the 2009 […]
Jody Seay, creator and moderator of the TV series “Back Page” interviews Betty Roberts about her life and book in this 30-minute session. http://media.oregonstate.edu/#entry_id=0_hny3uiqh
An Electronic Periodical Published by The Law and Courts Section, The American Political Science Association (E-mail: wmcintosh@gvpt.umd.edu) Link directly to the online review: www.bsos.umd.edu/gvpt/lpbr/reviews/2009/07/with-grit-and-by-grace-breaking-trails.html or read it here in its entirety. LAW AND POLITICS BOOK REVIEW ISSN 1062-7421, Vol. 19 No.7 (July, 2009) pp.489-491 Reviewed by Julie Novkov, University at Albany, SUNY. Email: jnovkov@albany.edu. WITH […]
The Oregon Historial Society Quarterly book review of Betty Roberts’ memoir With Grit and By Grace. Click on this link to read the review from the Spring 2009 issue, beginning on page 135. ohsq-review1
The Oregon Humanities – A Journal of Ideas and Perspective, Fall/Winter 2008 issue, page 15. An excerpt from Betty Roberts’ book With Grit and By Grace. oregon-humanities-fall-winter-2008 (Click on link to view pdf file of the excerpt as printed in the magazine.)
http://eugeneweekly.com/2008/09/18/books.html Taking the Gloves Off Betty Roberts, political animal by Suzi Steffen Talk about a determined human being. Betty Roberts attended her first sociology class wearing a dress, stockings, pumps and gloves. She was 32, a banker’s wife living in LaGrande, a mother with four children — and the year was 1955. Fast forward to […]
http://www.abajournal.com/weekly/trailblazing_oregon_judge_fought_shockingly_overt_sexism_and_won Women in the Law Trailblazing Oregon Judge Fought ‘Shockingly Overt Sexism’—and Won Posted Sep 15, 2008, 05:39 pm CDTMartha Neil By When Betty Roberts attended her first judicial conference, a male judge groped her breast. And that was just one of a number of instances of what a newspaper reviewing an autobiography of Oregon’s […]
http://www.registerguard.com/web/news/story.csp?cid=130176&sid=105&fid=35 Justice roberts recounts ACTS of injustice in her memoir By Karen McCowan, Published: September 15, 2008 In her new memoir, retired Oregon Supreme Court Justice Betty Roberts credits “grit” for her trailblazing political and judicial career. But reading her account of the hurdles she overcame to become the first Oregon woman to sit on […]
http://www.theoutlookonline.com/news/story.php?story_id=122127206143971500 Pioneer Oregon jurist frets over women’s political gains Supreme Court Justice Betty Roberts says Sarah Palin ‘is a stranger to me’ By Sharon Nesbit, The Gresham Outlook, Sep 12, 2008. Betty Roberts, Oregon’s first woman Supreme Court justice, came to Gresham on Monday, Sept. 8, to talk with two local book clubs about her […]
http://www.theoutlookonline.com/opinion/story.php?story_id=122127024669552300 Roberts’ book has East County backdrop By mark garber, The Gresham Outlook, Sep 12, 2008. Betty Roberts’ fine autobiography – “With Grit and By Grace” – is at least three history lessons woven together: • It’s the personal history of a woman who, although born at a time when people of her gender had […]