Quotable Woman

One book about womanly comes around to us in decade cycles.  This book is “Gift from the Sea” by Anne Morrow Lindbergh which centres on woman’s need for solitary time in order to be herself but also to be filled up with the emotional tools to fulfill her family obligations.  At one point she speaks to what we today call multi-tasking; “This is not the life of simplicity but the life of multiplicity that the wise men warn us of.  It leads not to unification but to fragmentation.  It does not bring grace, it destroys the soul.”  Sitting in my home and enjoying the quiet life in retirement I do contemplate the words of “the mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation” something which is also true of women today.

Despite the concerns about women working long hours, often as single parents, there is now a possible turning point in women taking a huge step in changing the world.  The madness that has been going on in the United States this past year has really magnified the troubles not only in America but around the global (to a greater or lesser degree).  The “strides” women took in the late 1960’s when entering the workforce in huge numbers, the Woman’s Movement, Women’s Liberation, Human Rights all these things seem to have waned with younger women not understanding what their mothers had to go through just to get a job much less a job with “equal pay for equal work”.  Change is fleeting in this man’s world and women always seem to end up with the short end of the stick.  And this is where we started, women are nurturers at heart and this causes them to stumble in righting the wrongs of the world.

But there is hope as more women take leads in governing.  Still baby steps but the movement is rising.  This is now about power.  Awaken ladies.  Feel it and own it.  Don’t wait for it to be given to you.