They care: mostly because they don’t know how to stop.
Girls are allowed to cry and encouraged to feel empathy about other people’s wounds right from the start. Little girls cuddle their dolls and wipe their parents’ tears away; now these girls are women and they will wipe away the tears of those living in fear. Good leaders feel concern for all people
They are no strangers to “picking up the pieces.”
I mean, they’ve had a lot of practice over the years. A woman is often left in a man’s wake, struggling to stand back up on her own, because her inner strength is the one thing she can always count on. Picking up the pieces of our current mess will take time and skill; good thing women have already begun to imagine their way through it.
Women are willing to risk it all for the people and things they love.
Think the Chinese mother Ding Zilin, who has spent 24 years trying to earn permission to properly mourn her son who was killed by Chinese soldiers, think the Afghani women who carried the casket of their fellow woman Farkhunda after she was beaten to death by a mob, think the indigenous water protectors who are not done protesting for the their rights to clean water and cultural respect, and there are millions of others. In our own country, we have the “Day Without A Woman” strikes and marches happening this Wednesday, March 8! Is it a risk to stay home from work for many: most likely, but the women and girls of our country understand how much is at stake if the trends of the current administration are not stopped.
They know how much some men hate it when they RISE, and that fact is definitely not a discouragement to them.
Please watch women in action this Wednesday, March 8, 2017, for more proof of this.
You know we’re all going to vote for Oprah Winfrey next election!
Why? Because she is kind, intelligent and has excellent taste in literature. Well, that is why this woman would vote for her anyway. She also has many of the great qualities that used to be upheld in offices of government throughout America: she farms, she helps those less fortunate than her and she can form thoughtful, complete sentences.
