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Early Life and Education
Ruth supported found Women in Transition by writing for the newspaper.

"For Those Who Cannot Sleep"
Her journey was recorded by the poetry series “For Those Who Cannot Sleep” which was written in the late 1950’s when she was in age of 28 to 31 years and a housewife and a mother of the three young kids. This song includes spiritual expressions showing her severe journey, for example, describing "a world in which 'The H bomb hovers/Yet/Birds build/Trees feather into leaf'... 'If we cannot save ourselves/Who can save us?/(...)/Where is the sun?'.

“Who Killed the Women?”
In 1966, she wrote the song and was used at rallies and meetings in Philadelphia.

"Turned on Women"
This is a new kind of women-made songbooks at that time. Ruth made this original one, organized by other women, and women hired by her turned into the musical notation. She talked about the processes of these songs are created in the book like about inspirations. One of her purpose of making this book is "to encourage women to make their own music, sing their own songs." "Women's folk song writer" is what she chose as her title of herself, not composer. Ruth picked up small events that occur in everyday life and turned into the songs. For example, a song named "Haircut" is sung about her friend's haircut.

WomenSpirit magazine

 * When she met Jean, realized that she is a lesbian, and started to make a living with writing for a magazine, Country Women, and newspaper, the Women’s Press, in Eugene, Oregon. Because of being lesbians, she and Jean were expelled from the place. Country Women supported them having looked for a place to settle around the West Coast.
 * Golden was a Gay commune.


 * WomenSpirit was inspired by the experience of writing for Country Women.
 * One of the goals is "to validate that it's okay to be wherever you are in your own development". Ruth and Jean wanted all women to feel having many other people who shares the same spirit and experiences.


 * The contents of this magazine are pliable as they are what readers supplied and dealt with by anyone who could help at that time, so that the magazine's spirituality is not firm.

Oregon Women's Land Trust
Ruth took the pictures included in the materials Phillis Lyon and Del Martin collected for their magazine called Lesbian Love and Liberation (1973).