Sunday, April 1, 2007

Gender issues

Why are men more dominant than women? Why hasn't there been a female president? I do not mind having to stay home when I have children, but men always say that women are suppose to stay home 'bare foot and pregnant'! Women are starting to make a difference in the world and becoming successful, yet men always try to out do us and say that we can not do everything that they can do. I think that we (women) can practically do everything that men can do besides pee standing up (we can but it's hard)!!! I found this quote online:
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves "who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?" Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you... As we let our light shine, we consciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence actually liberates others. "
Marianne Williamson, as quoted by Nelson Mandella in a 1994 Inaugural Address.

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