Post by Caressa2 on May 15, 2004 13:35:15 GMT -5
I am a woman in the prime of life, with certain powers and those powers severely limited by aurhorities whose faces I rarely see.
- Adrienne Rich
It is time! As women we have been limited as to what we can do, say, thin, and feel. Some of us hate to admit it. Yet, down deep we know that there are many forces that limit our lives, forces over which we have little power. Only a person with no feelings and no awareness would not feel the smolder of anger, even rage, deep inside at times.
It seems that we, as women, have only had two options-to go along with the authorities and thus support them, or to fight them and thus support them. Either way we lose.
Fortunately, there is a third option. We can be ourselves. We can see what is important fo rus and to do it. In order for us to exercise this third option, we may have to go through our anger first.
When we respect our anger and deal with it, we discover doors that were not obvious before.
THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
It was amazing how much anger was buried within me over the years. A lot I wasn't aware of, and didn't realize it was so apparent to others because I never felt it. I saw a woman who I knew for two years while I lived at the YWCA and she read my T-shirt and said, "Still the radical I see!" It surprised me, I never saw myself in that role.
- Adrienne Rich
It is time! As women we have been limited as to what we can do, say, thin, and feel. Some of us hate to admit it. Yet, down deep we know that there are many forces that limit our lives, forces over which we have little power. Only a person with no feelings and no awareness would not feel the smolder of anger, even rage, deep inside at times.
It seems that we, as women, have only had two options-to go along with the authorities and thus support them, or to fight them and thus support them. Either way we lose.
Fortunately, there is a third option. We can be ourselves. We can see what is important fo rus and to do it. In order for us to exercise this third option, we may have to go through our anger first.
When we respect our anger and deal with it, we discover doors that were not obvious before.
THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
It was amazing how much anger was buried within me over the years. A lot I wasn't aware of, and didn't realize it was so apparent to others because I never felt it. I saw a woman who I knew for two years while I lived at the YWCA and she read my T-shirt and said, "Still the radical I see!" It surprised me, I never saw myself in that role.
. I will be back looking for Lin and others.