International
Women's Day has been a celebration of standard women doing unprecedented
things. I'd get a kick out of the chance to change that a little bit.This year
on March eighth, will celebrate exceptional women doing normal things, because
that is the thing that most of us are.
We're
not Nobel Prize winners or social liberties leaders. We've never been a Time
magazine Person of the Year. We answer phones. We drive busses. We give
influenza shots and speeding tickets and homework. We're students. We claim
businesses. We are artists and dentists and moms. We offer ourselves to the
standard things that keep our families and communities entirety.
We
are women like Bev, a single mother who is described by her nineteen year old
son as "wonderful, my legend and intense as nails." Nineteen year
olds are not easily impressed these days. Especially by their mothers.
We
are women like Joyce, who postponed her personal goals to raise six kids
without a caretaker or a nervous breakdown. Clara, who will hand 90 over three
days, and has unobtrusively and steadily dealt with other individuals since she
was a tyke. Maureen, whose three joyous, respectful youthful kids are the
product of her every day work.
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women's day celebration quotes
These
remarkable women are accessible to me in my conventional life. I wave to them
in chapel. We pass each other at the intersection. I know them through their
email, their jobs, their landscaping, their friendship.
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women's day quotes with images
I
am inspired by women like Sheilah. She loves her son. She does not love her
body. Sheilah was diagnosed with pancreatic disease when her son was a little
child. The medicinal group wondered about Sheilah's resilience all through two
years of horrifying treatments and surgeries, including the evacuation of her
pancreas, until they at long last understood that Sheilah didn't have
malignancy.
Her
husband exited, abandoning her - sick and unemployed - to raise their tyke
alone. Her parents sold their home and evacuated their lives to draw nearer to
her. In any case, Sheilah never had tumor.
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She
carries a vast triangular scar on her stomach area and insulin in her purse,
which she will infuse several times per day for the rest of her life to take
every necessary step of her absent pancreas. What Sheilah wants today is notice
of a transfer to an alternate employment, so that her son can go to a school
for kids with his special needs. Sheilah goes to work, buys groceries and
mothers her tyke. She is an exceptional lady doing conventional things.
So
is Kim, who wants to be a superior mother, companion, sister, little girl,
colleague and spouse than she was yesterday. What's more, Laurie, who has
resisted the last 453 cigarettes she needed to smoke.
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Phenomenal
women from all parts of the U.S. shared their thoughts for this article, as did
women from Canada, the UK, Germany, Turkey, Italy, Ireland and Australia.
Christine said that what she wants for today is "for women all around the
globe to hold hands and acknowledge we are all in this together".
I
trust we do. Happy International Women's Day.
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