Quote by Virginia Woolf

A random quote I happen to find , by Virginia Woolf

This is for my daughter , Kim.

For all women who have become, were born with, or just plain want to be lesbians! This is for Kim because I watched her suffer greatly emotional, economically, and psychologically because she chooses to love a woman...Why here you may ask? In the heart of every woman we have a desire and we desire to love. Because after all..we have been through as women , I believe in that moment we begin to feel we have rights, we get one more challenge. Yet again, she struggles, as do many others to be free and herself ...To love freely!

http://http//woman-stirred.blogspot.com/

It is true that I only want to show off to women.
Women alone stir my imagination.
~ Virginia Woolf

Kim Phuc's words..........

Kim Phuc was bombed in her tiny village,Trang Bang, in 1972. Today, she has a foundation for innocent children with any injury due to war. She suffered many years of burn therapy and today speaks of forgiveness.....I cannot forgive this photo and the pain thats so evident in it. But today this is Kim Phuc and I feel she is worthy of praise of her story of survival and forgiveness. Kim's beauty is apparent to me , showing her scars from a war, from a picture thats forever locked in our memories. But this is not that picture, it is Kim Phuc today. She was that tiny girl in Vietnam running for her life, today she is walking the path of peace and forgiveness. Hats off to Kim. Again no word's!
http://http//www.kimfoundation.com/modules/contentpage/index.php?file=intro.htm


Written by Kim Phuc




I should have died

My skin should have burned off my body

But I'm still beautiful, right?

...Don't see a little girl crying out in fear and pain

See her as crying out for peace.

Nimah Nawwab

Nimah from Saudi Arabia, speaks for generations of women whether from Saudi Arabia or not. She speaks of a humiliation only experienced by women, in foreign counries. Veils,Abaya's, and any covering speaks to all womens souls. We are all covered, shadowed and masked in all ways. If we remove the "veil" of women maybe we can see , possibility. Nimah is my new favorite poet. She removes that "Abaya" and speaks of the removal so vulnerably. Thank you , Nimah!
http://www.famouspoetsandpoems.com/

Gentleness Stirred by Nimah Nawwab


Striding through the gates of learning,
Wrapped warmly in her black abaya,
Modestly cloaked head to toe,
Not a hair astray, nor skin showing,
Holding her head up high,
Thinking of the future,
Arms laden with books,
Head in the clouds,
Lunch, television, studies, friends,
That is how her day will go
Near future, far future,
Blissful, brimming with expectations.

“Hey, you there!” thunders across the parking lot
“You with the black boots” the tone is raised
Oh, oh, reluctantly she turns,
Fear stirs,
Flinching,
Watches wrath unleashed.

The self-righteous, bushy-bearded figure,
Crashes through the crowds,
Bestriding his narrow world like a Colossus,
As his entourage hurries in his wake,
A raging bull on the rampage,
Seeing red as the girl flouts ‘convention.’

Necks crane to watch,
The crowds are in on the show.
He thunders on,
The police by his side
“Stop, your scarf has slipped.”
The tirade begins, gains momentum.

Head cast down,
Eyes to the ground,
Shoulders drooping
She listens,
Afraid,
Confused,
Cringing,
Burrowing into her deepest self.

Has she missed a prayer?
Has she been a disobedient daughter?
Cheated, lied, stolen,
Beaten a child, an animal, been cruel to another soul?
What did she do?
Her scarf slipped,
An unforgivable transgression,
In the eyes of the Controllers.
Is that her sin,
Her ever-lasting humiliation,
Her major fall from grace,
Her offense?


The mind is strange, the spirit stranger yet,
The rebellion begins.

* Abaya is the outer garment worn by women in Persian Gulf
Countries

Sylvia Platt- Daddy

Ok, from my research a very misunderstood poet. Comparing her relationship with her father to genocide?..Hmmm....well, we all as women have had a relationship with our fathers? Ive read alot on this piece called "Daddy". I related. I dont feel like a jewish woman depraved of my humanity. I felt like Sylvia, so depraved of my precious relationship with my father. Sylvia killed herself after asking a neighbor for a doctor, by gas inhalation. So precious, I also feel at times their are no words to describe it. Sylvia Platt did , to her best, describe this ...horrible feeling. Maybe this is the only way to also get heard. LOSS!
http://www.internal.org/Sylvia_Plath/Daddy





Daddy
by Sylvia Plath

You do not do, you do not do
Any more, black shoe
In which I have lived like a foot
For thirty years, poor and white,
Barely daring to breathe or Achoo.

Daddy, I have had to kill you.
You died before I had time--
Marble-heavy, a bag full of God,
Ghastly statue with one gray toe
Big as a Frisco seal

And a head in the freakish Atlantic
Where it pours bean green over blue
In the waters off beautiful Nauset.
I used to pray to recover you.
Ach, du.

In the German tongue, in the Polish town
Scraped flat by the roller
Of wars, wars, wars.
But the name of the town is common.
My Polack friend

Says there are a dozen or two.
So I never could tell where you
Put your foot, your root,
I never could talk to you.
The tongue stuck in my jaw.

It stuck in a barb wire snare.
Ich, ich, ich, ich,
I could hardly speak.
I thought every German was you.
And the language obscene

An engine, an engine
Chuffing me off like a Jew.
A Jew to Dachau, Auschwitz, Belsen.
I began to talk like a Jew.
I think I may well be a Jew.

The snows of the Tyrol, the clear beer of Vienna
Are not very pure or true.
With my gipsy ancestress and my weird luck
And my Taroc pack and my Taroc pack
I may be a bit of a Jew.

I have always been scared of you,
With your Luftwaffe, your gobbledygoo.
And your neat mustache
And your Aryan eye, bright blue.
Panzer-man, panzer-man, O You--

Not God but a swastika
So black no sky could squeak through.
Every woman adores a Fascist,
The boot in the face, the brute
Brute heart of a brute like you.

You stand at the blackboard, daddy,
In the picture I have of you,
A cleft in your chin instead of your foot
But no less a devil for that, no not
Any less the black man who

Bit my pretty red heart in two.
I was ten when they buried you.
At twenty I tried to die
And get back, back, back to you.
I thought even the bones would do.

But they pulled me out of the sack,
And they stuck me together with glue.
And then I knew what to do.
I made a model of you,
A man in black with a Meinkampf look

And a love of the rack and the screw.
And I said I do, I do.
So daddy, I'm finally through.
The black telephone's off at the root,
The voices just can't worm through.

If I've killed one man, I've killed two--
The vampire who said he was you
And drank my blood for a year,
Seven years, if you want to know.
Daddy, you can lie back now.

There's a stake in your fat black heart
And the villagers never liked you.
They are dancing and stamping on you.
They always knew it was you.
Daddy, daddy, you bastard, I'm through

Nawal El Saadawi

Nawal El Saadawi changed my heart, impacted me on a level that cant even find words. Captivating, a rebel and downright genius. Nawal has several books all of which are powerful and riveting why did I not put them here? Well, its too vast. "Woman at Point Zero" is world renowned, but I couldnt feel comfortable adding one tiny excerpt. It would have been pages. So when I seen this video interview, it hit me hard. Creativity and Dissidence. That is what I felt I got from this interview.In some strange odd way Nawal will put together two things that dont seem relevant and relate them. Intelligent, political, sincere, riveting, poignant, and downright " dangerous". Shes straightway dangerous!! When Nawal was imprisonned, the guards came to search her cell. She explained that it looked like they were searching for weapons. The guard replied,"We seek your pen and paper thats worse than a gun" Oh how I love and admire Nawal El Saadawi. This video is her understanding of creativity and dissidence, they go together or we are not free. Carefully consider these words. Nawals says " You do not know you are not free , until they take it" They took Nawal's freedom and she is still genuinely herself and is full of opinions that I happen to agree with.
http://http//www.bing.com/search?q=you+tube&form=HPNTDF&pc=HPNTDF&src=IE-SearchBox

Girl: Exploding by Lauren Zuniga

I adore this slam. Lauren Zuniga talks about our "stripped selves". Easily understood. Women, tick,tick, tick, imploding? weight, skinnier, giving up careers, sexy, not sexy, messy, sudden released,brides, screaming lesbians, feminisim, more not equal, balance energy, strength unparallel, mute,girls gone wild, womens movement, cultural power, sexual powers, history, its hard to be a woman! we have to explode! .....BRAVISIMO!
http://http//www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Or85x4GX8w

Definition of a Woman: Dictionary

Well I thought I'd put in definitions of woman...Im shocked and mortified...I think "domestic employee" is REDICULOUS and am glad I found this~The bing dictionary should be appalled. Also, we have more definitions and I hope you like them. This in no way defines a woman but I thought it was interesting...Perhaps this is WHY women fight so hard or dont? STRUGGLE!
www.bingdictionary.com




DICTIONARY
woman
Definition
wom·an[ wmmən ]wom·en Plural
www.freedictionary.com

NOUN
1. female adult: an adult female human being
2. women as group: women collectively or in general
3. femininity: feminine qualities or feelings
4. domestic employee: a woman who is a domestic employee ( sometimes offensive )
5. wife or girlfriend: a wife, female lover, or girlfriend ( informal ) ( sometimes offensive )
[ Old English wimman, variant of wīfman, <>



wom·an (wmn)
n. pl. wom·en (wmn)
1. An adult female human.
2. Women considered as a group; womankind: "Woman feels the invidious distinctions of sex exactly as the black man does those of color" (Elizabeth Cady Stanton).
3. An adult female human belonging to a specified occupation, group, nationality, or other category. Often used in combination: an Englishwoman; congresswoman; a saleswoman.
4. Feminine quality or aspect; womanliness.
5. A female servant or subordinate.
6. Informal
a. A wife.
b. A female lover or sweetheart. See Usage Notes at lady, man, person.
Idioms:
(one's) own woman
Independent in judgment or action: She has always been her own woman.
to a woman
Without exception.
www.freedictionary.com

OK this one if from brainyquote...A related topic?

http://www.brainyquote.com/words/wo/woman240300.html
Woman

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An adult female person; a grown-up female person, as distinguished from a man or a child; sometimes, any female person.

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The female part of the human race; womankind.

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A female attendant or servant.

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To act the part of a woman in; -- with indefinite it.

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To make effeminate or womanish.

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To furnish with, or unite to, a woman.

Related Definitions:
Act, Adult, An, Any, As, Attendant, Child, Distinguished, Effeminate, Female, From, Furnish, Human, In, Indefinite, It, Make, Man, Of, Or, Part, Person, Race, Servant, Sometimes, The, To, Unite, With, Woman, Womanish, Womankind




In my pursuit to find a pure definition I found this:


I did not find one definition that accurately portrays a female who is deserving of all fairness and equality!
Cindy Rosas

Quotes on Feminism

When I thought of the overall piece of literature I felt feminism was missing. I now feel the insertion of quotes gives me the feeling that ive covered all aspects. The misleading notions, the equations to God, the assertion of "doormatism",witches, lesbianism, and some downright dirty dealings. Not all men feel this way but at times when I walk through the halls of College, I can sense an objection to my existence, because I so choose to be a woman and feel the freedom to be divinely, ME. WOMAN. Smart, sensitive, politically edged, non dish washing, no child bearing, no hold barred, female! There are several opinions. I hope this gives the concensus which I feel still exists today. ROAR!
http://www.notable-quotes.com/f/feminism_quote.html







I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
REBECCA WEST, "Mr. Chesterton in Hysterics," The Clarion, November 14, 1913

The feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women. It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism, and become lesbians.
PAT ROBERTSON, fundraising letter, 1992

How shall we ever make the world intelligent of our movement? I do not think that the answer lies in trying to render feminism easy, popular, and instantly gratifying. To conjure with the passive culture and adapt to its rules is to degrade and deny the fullness of our meaning and intention.
ADRIENNE RICH, On Lies, Secrets, and Silences


Feminism has become a catch-all vegetable drawer where bunches of clingy sob sisters can store their moldy neuroses.
CAMILLE PAGLIA, Vamps and Tramps

One of the reasons for the failure of feminism to dislodge deeply held perceptions of male and female behaviour was its insistence that women were victims, and men powerful patriarchs, which made a travesty of ordinary people’s experience of the mutual interdependence of men and women.
ROSALIND COWARD, Our Treacherous Hearts

" What A Woman Must Do" by Ursula Rucker

I feel this slam was well deserved, not by man , but for all women to hear. To remember what we must do. What we have been talked into, talked about and what we believe we are. When we remember Ursula's words we remember how truly talented, beautiful and how much more we really are. My favorite is " a muse a synonym for USE.... FIGHT! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uhi2SGNVjO8

"A Room Of One's Own" Virginia Woolf

Before I say too much about Virginia Woolf this has to be seen in theatre. Its difficult to understand her theory or even "her humor" in this piece unless you understand her idea of equality? I sense equality and freedom to BE. If we all had a room and a little money we would be free? This perplexed me ..then I seen masterpiece theatre and watched an actress play out this slice oif literature and Virginia was born, in me. I love her incredible intelligence and she is non assuming. She directly believes and exhorts if we had a room and some money we could write. yes there is a deeper subject here but its pure and lovely. BE!
www.ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/w/woolf/virginia/w91r/


"A Room Of One's Own"

Virginia Woolf

All I could do was to offer you an opinion upon one minor point — a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction; and that, as you will see, leaves the great problem of the true nature of woman and the true nature of fiction unsolved. I have shirked the duty of coming to a conclusion upon these two questions — women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems. But in order to make some amends I am going to do what I can to show you how I arrived at this opinion about the room and the money. I am going to develop in your presence as fully and freely as I can the train of thought which led me to think this. Perhaps if I lay bare the ideas, the prejudices, that lie behind this statement you will find that they have some bearing upon women and some upon fiction. At any rate, when a subject is highly controversial — and any question about sex is that — one cannot hope to tell the truth.

Finally

Your right.. My right ...His right....We all have rights and these are fair and just so I'll end with fair and just.......
www.unhinderedliving.com/personalrights.html



The Center for Unhindered Living

Personal Bill of Rights

Every man, woman, and child has the following rights by virtue of the fact that they exist.
These are reasonable and ordinary expectations, which create appropriate boundaries.
http://www.unhinderedliving.com/personalrights.html



I have the right to make my own choices.

I have the right to follow my own values and standards,
as long as I am not abusive towards others.

I have a right to dignity and respect.

I have a right to all of my feelings.

I have a right to express myself as long as
I am not abusive toward others.

I have a right to determine and honor my own priorities.

I have a right to recognize and accept my own value system as appropriate.

I have a right to have my needs and wants respected by others.

I have the right to say no when I feel I am not ready, unsafe,
or that it violates my values (this goes for kids too...they have
the right to say "no" to their parents)

I have the right to make mistakes and not have to be perfect.

I have the right not to be responsible for others behavior,
actions, feelings or problems.

I have a right to be uniquely me, without feeling I'm not good enough.

I have the right to make decisions based on my
feelings and judgment for any reason.

I have the right to change my mind at any time.

I have the right to my personal space and time needs.

I have the right to be flexible and be comfortable with doing so.

I have the right to be in a safe, non-abusive environment.

I have the right to forgive others and forgive myself.

I have the right to give and receive unconditional love.

I have the right to enjoy being sexual and celebrate my sexuality.

I have the right to my own spiritual beliefs and to celebrate them.

I have the right to grieve when I don't get what I need.

I have the right to grieve when I get something I didn't need or want.

I have the right to joyfully receive without feeling guilty.

I have a right to healthy relationships of my choice.

I have the right to be angry with someone I love.

I can take care of myself, no matter what.

I have the right to be, and can be, healthier than those around me.

I have the right to trust others who earn my trust.

I have the right to terminate conversations for any reason.

It is OK to be relaxed, playful and frivolous.

I have a right to expect honesty from others.

I have the right to change and grow.

I have the right to follow my own path.

I have the right to be happy.