It is National Women’s History Month
I did not even know one existed until I was asked to participate
Here I honor not women who have made history, but women who are making history.
Nationally – internationally – those who live for it, and those who have died for it. The political leaders of countries we would count as less feministically advanced than us, yet whose heroes are female political leaders who have sacrificed their families and their lives for their countries…
Aung San Suu Kyi – you will not hear as much about her as you will Nelson Mandela
Yet she has paid her nation’s price in 18 years of imprisonment, separated from her two sons and husband, to stand for democracy and freedom in Burma
Why is democracy and freedom in Burma of any importance to us snuggled here in the states??
Because what enlarges one enlarges the world, and what diminishes one, diminishes the world.
Whether we know it or not, feel it or not, see it or not, believe it or not….
We are connected…………………….
Here’s to the courage of woman – as brave and as strong and as free
as any of man that would see or be
spirit is the same
it knows not face or name
nor race
nor sex
nor anything in between
It simply is what it seems