Today is International Women's Day!
This was started way back in the early 1920's when women faced oppression from many different sources.
Women of yesterday were instrumental in changing attitutes towards how we are viewed today.
Fortunately this means that in most of our modern civilized countries we have many freedoms that we can enjoy while being treated with equality and respect.
Let us not forget, that not every woman is so fortunate.
There are victims the world over, here and abroad, engaged in battles of will, battles of the mind, and even battles of the body to attain those same freedoms we take for granted. May we all find ways to assist these people, the strongest women among us.
Thank you to our forebearers, for myself, my girlfriends, my mother, my sisters, my aunts, my nieces, my neighbours, and mostly, thanks for my daughter. (She is soon headed to university to study business- unheard of for women in years past!)
I am so grateful to be a woman today, in this wondrous and wonderful country called Canada!
Make it a great day, or make it a grateful day! Either will do.
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