Because You’re Worth It!
We received this poem from one of our vibrant
and vital hireheelers: TruthisGold and decided to
share it with the MORE than worthy women of
hireheels. Remember ladies— you are wise,
fabulous, smart and sexy! You must NEVER take
your worth for granted.
HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY!
XOXOXO…
Sista & Princess
THE WORTH OF A WOMAN
Women have strengths that amaze men.
They bear hardships and they carry burdens,
but they hold happiness, love and joy.
They smile when they want to scream.
They sing when they want to cry.
They cry when they are happy
and laugh when they are nervous.
They fight for what they believe in.
They stand up to injustice.
They don’t take ‘no’ for an answer
when they believe there is a better solution.
They go without so their family can have.
They go to the doctor with a frightened friend.
They love unconditionally.
They cry when their children excel
and cheer when their friends get awards.
They are happy when they hear about
a birth or a wedding.
Their hearts break when a friend dies.
They grieve at the loss of a family member,
yet they are strong when they
think there is no strength left.
They know that a hug and a kiss
can heal a broken heart.
Women come in all shapes, sizes and colors.
They’ll drive, fly, walk, run or e-mail you
to show how much they care about you.
The heart of a woman is what makes the world keep turning.
They bring joy, hope and love.
They have the compassion and ideas.
They give moral support to their
family and friends.
Women have vital things to say
and everything to give.
HOWEVER, IF THERE IS ONE FLAW IN WOMEN,
IT IS THAT THEY FORGET THEIR WORTH.
on February 14th, 2009 at 11:59 am
well said happy valentines day girls
on February 14th, 2009 at 8:44 pm
Woman Warrior is here with a call to action. Many of us feel disenfranchised with both the democratic and republican parties, and would like to create a place that we feel empowered to be in, respected, and where we can call home. It will take all of us, and other like-minded, spirit forums, to accomplish this. Even though its alot of work, and it will take time, the process should begin, before we all feel disenfranchised and apathetic..which is what we should really try to avoid. Our energies are needed at this moment in time Never do we want to see Hillary or any other women treated like what we have just seen in this last election cycle. Its important to know where Hillary is, and its important to know where all women are, as the two major partys do not have women’s political or personal interests at heart.
There are many Hillary blogs that have gone to the shore of the waters of independence– and Darragh Murphy of PUMA actually dipped her toe in and then pulled it out again to test the waters. But no one has fully jumped into the water. Lets consider doing this, and all of us take the swim together and form a new major party called The Women’s Party and offer it as a place we can all go. Why should we just endorse candidates..and not run them? Why shouldn’t we be part of all debates? Then we will see more movement…But we all have to be in it.. and invite other blogs and like-minded movements to join including Ann Lewis, Heidi Li Feldman, the Hillcrats, Lynette Long, Darragh and the PUMAs and everyone who has the best interests of women at heart. As Darragh has explored, it can be modeled after the Women’s Party in Iceland, and we can call it the Women’s Party, instead of the New Democratic Party.
What does everyone think? We will give a new meaning to the word “change” –Woman Warrior
Please visit pantsuitpolitics.net and first join, and then go to today’s posts..read The Women’s Party thread and please join in the discussion…
on February 14th, 2009 at 8:48 pm
DISCUSSION OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF A WOMEN’S PARTY, modeled after the Women’s Party of Iceland.
Woman Warrior is here with a call to action. Many of us feel disenfranchised with both the democratic and republican parties, and would like to create a place that we feel empowered to be in, respected, and where we can call home. It will take all of us, and other like-minded, spirit forums, to accomplish this. Even though its alot of work, and it will take time, the process should begin, before we all feel disenfranchised and apathetic..which is what we should really try to avoid. Our energies are needed at this moment in time Never do we want to see Hillary or any other women treated like what we have just seen in this last election cycle. Its important to know where Hillary is, and its important to know where all women are, as the two major partys do not have women’s political or personal interests at heart.
There are many Hillary blogs that have gone to the shore of the waters of independence– and Darragh Murphy of PUMA actually dipped her toe in and then pulled it out again to test the waters. But no one has fully jumped into the water. Lets consider doing this, and all of us take the swim together and form a new major party called The Women’s Party and offer it as a place we can all go. Why should we just endorse candidates..and not run them? Why shouldn’t we be part of all debates? Then we will see more movement…But we all have to be in it.. and invite other blogs and like-minded movements to join including Ann Lewis, Heidi Li Feldman, the Hillcrats, Lynette Long, Darragh and the PUMAs and everyone who has the best interests of women at heart. As Darragh has explored, it can be modeled after the Women’s Party in Iceland, and we can call it the Women’s Party, instead of the New Democratic Party.
What does everyone think? We will give a new meaning to the word “change” –Woman Warrior
Please visit pantsuitpolitics.net and first join, and then go to today’s posts..read The Women’s Party thread and please join in the discussion…
on February 14th, 2009 at 10:38 pm
sista and princess—-thank you for the positve message on this special day.
A lovely poem.
to warror princess—the paintsuit politics is a great site, but i am not very good on the computer, and so i had trouble registering and signing on. ….never did get it right.
It’s a worthy and ambitious thing you’re doing, however.
on February 14th, 2009 at 11:07 pm
Beautiful poem, thanks for sharing.
on February 14th, 2009 at 11:24 pm
hmmmmmm
on February 15th, 2009 at 10:58 am
Happy Valentines Day!
So glad you ladies are back!
thanks KK! glad to see you too.
on February 15th, 2009 at 1:14 pm
yea look like most of the HH crew is back
on February 15th, 2009 at 6:38 pm
Also see http://www.pantsuitpolitics.net and register..
Then go to The pants Suit Ninja (Take Action) site and please leave your comment on The Women’s Party Thread.
Go to login/register in right hand corner. Please join this discussion women!
on February 15th, 2009 at 6:41 pm
is like the sky is falling pass my bill or the end will come… then he goes out and parties
http://www.nypost.com/seven/02152009/news/nationalnews/whats_the_rush__155255.htm
why cant this guy work weekends to save the world
on February 15th, 2009 at 9:58 pm
Never mind on the pants suits site….New coalition site needed for a women’s party organizing site.
any thoughts?
on February 15th, 2009 at 10:47 pm
yea jsnd just check it out
on February 16th, 2009 at 9:00 pm
Women in India Form Their Own Political Party
Run Date: 01/07/08
By Aditi Bhaduri
WeNews correspondent
The first all-women’s political party in India has formed after 100 women joined. A first order of business is to boost female representation in parliament from 8 to 50 percent. Seventh in a series on the changing role of women in India.
Suman Krishan Kant
DELHI, India (WOMENSENEWS)–It is a mellow December morning in Delhi. Soft sunlight filters through the trees that line the boulevards of the city’s stately Krishna Menon Marg neighborhood.
Suman Krishan Kant, however, is oblivious to the tranquillity outside the windows of her well-appointed bungalow.
The prominent social activist is reviewing and paying bills while files wait on the table for her attention. The elegant waiting room outside is beginning to fill in with men and women hoping to meet with her and enlist her advocacy with government agencies on their behalf. One of them, for instance, is a widow who hopes Kant will help her application for an increase in her pension.
It is the beginning of another working day for the president of the country’s all-women’s political party.
In October, Kant, the widow of former vice president Krishan Kumar Kant, joined with other influential women to launch the United Women’s Front to address issues such as women’s illiteracy, early marriage and tokenism in parliament, where women hold just 8 percent of seats. To qualify for official party status, the group had to muster at least 100 members and pay about $300 in registration fees.
“Women have simply not been getting the kind of governance they deserve,” says Kant. “Take Delhi for example. It has a female chief minister, yet it is one of the most dangerous places for women . . . All this is precisely because we do not have enough women in decision-making and in the political process. A few women here and there cannot make much of a difference.”
Prem Ahluwalia is a journalist who specializes in women’s issues and directs the Dehli-based Institute for South Asian Women, which seeks to foster ties among women in India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan and the Maldives. She is also the United Women Front’s national general secretary.
“It is for the first time in the history of India that a national political party has been formed by women,” she says. “In fact it is the only party of women in the world. We need to ensure that the issues of priority concern to half of its population remain in the forefront of the pressing issues on India’s national agenda.”
Land of Contradictions
India is often called a land of contradictions and that pertains to the status of women here. The national constitution guaranteed women’s legal equality in 1950. India also elected Indira Ghandi in 1966, making her the world’s second female prime minister after Sri Lanka’s Sirimavo Bandarnaike, who took office in 1960.
This past July Pratibha Patil was elected the country’s first female president, a mostly ceremonial position that nonetheless leaves India with a female head of state.
Women hold top cabinets posts and at least three states have female chief ministers. Village councils reserve 33 percent of their seats for women.
On the other hand, millions of women live in poverty, illiteracy, malnourishment and ill-health. In November, the World Economic Forum’s latest gender gap index put India among the world’s 10 most gender-biased economies, with women’s participation in the paid work force at 36 percent.
Recently, Sonia Gandhi, the female president of the All India Congress Party, the ruling party in the coalition government, said she was unable to pass a bill first introduced in 1996 that ensures 33 percent of parliamentary seats–the widely assumed critical mass–go to women.
The Ministry of Women and Child Development in 2006 drafted a bill for the prevention of workplace sexual harassment that was supposed to have been passed this year. However, it is still pending.
New Law Lacks Implementation
National statistics from 2005 to 2006 show 40 percent of Indian women suffer from domestic abuse. The Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act passed through parliament in 2005 and came into force last year.
Lawyers, however, widely lament that insufficient arrangements have been made for them to handle cases brought under the law. For instance, the trained personnel–counselors, protection officers, service providers–called for by the law are not in place.
The party has these types of issues in its sights. In the two months since its formation, however, it has focused on recruitment and making 50 percent female representation in parliament its chief objective.
So far the party has established organizations in 16 of India’s 28 states. The groups vary in size. The Delhi chapter, for instance, claims 25,000 members; another state chapter claims 5,000.
The chapters are mainly led by veteran activists. The state of Orissa, for instance, has Shanti Das, a well-known union activist; Punjab has Pam Rajput, a prominent women’s rights activist and scholar.
Men Join In
But that doesn’t mean the party excludes men.
As Women’s eNews visits Kant’s office, in fact, Mohamed Shafique, 24, walks in, pulls out a file from the cupboard and starts leafing through it. He is preparing to begin the day as one of the party’s workers in Delhi, which holds state-level elections in July 2008, the first test of the new party’s ability to make a mark.
United Women Front is planning to field candidates for all 72 of Delhi’s assembly seats. So far it is stressing education and safety for women and an end to all kinds of violence against women.
“We need the youth,” says Kant, referring to Shafique, “because India has a young population.” According to official statistics here, 50 percent of India’s population of 1.1 billion in 2006 was under 25.
“We are not against men,” Kant says. “We need men to work with us and we need their support.”
However, she draws certain lines.
“Men will not be part of the national committee,” says Kant firmly. “Men will be members of state chapters only; but we will have only women at the national level.”
Aditi Bhaduri is a gender consultant and a journalist based in India.
Women’s eNews welcomes your comments. E-mail us at @womensenews.org">editors@womensenews.org.
on February 16th, 2009 at 10:04 pm
no men on the the national committee. whats up with that
on February 17th, 2009 at 2:46 pm
Love the new Splash!
on February 17th, 2009 at 4:58 pm
OK Sista and Princess, I read “one thing today” and now I am really spitting bullets. They’re “bipartisan” while traversing the major cities of Europe…with their spouses”? And last week, after surviving the zero to five degree days of the cold northeast, I went on “friendcation”, you know, the kind where you are too poor to afford a hotel, but have a friend who lives in a warm climate? Huddled in the very last seat where I could smell the jet fuel during takeoff, I might as well have been outside the plane…it sure felt like it. Got a goddess given bit of warmth and sun. And managed a few news blackout, Obama free days. No computer, no work. Just the pool, the sun, and my coffee. So I happily read all your posts when I arrived home this past weekend. And I even managed to get a slightly better seat. But I’ll wager that jet trotting around Europe on the government plane is a damn site more comforable than coach. Now I am very grateful to have a friend who invited me, and a the means to scrape together the modest airfare. But really, which part of we are all hanging by a thread out here in the real world do these government moochers fail to understand? It’s not a vacation, yet they took their spouses? Was one of the spouses named Mrs. Madoff? And why the utter waste of jetting people out to denver to sign legislation? Meanwhile, I’ve seen no coverage of Hillary on her all important trip to North Korea? Does CNN lack a camera crew in northeast Asia? The New York Philharmonic got live broadcast of its historic North Korean concert. What about our brilliant SOS meeting the Dear Leader? If CNN will cover that live, even I will get up at 5:00AM. Just let us know, folks, so we can set the alarm.
on February 17th, 2009 at 7:28 pm
discopuma—Thanks so much for the story about the women in India. I just forwarded it to a young woman friend of ours in D.C. She lived in India for a year, and would want to read this.
on February 17th, 2009 at 8:12 pm
If its possible there, its possible here!
on February 17th, 2009 at 8:16 pm
looks like berrys gone into ( campaign) default mode lets see he had those 2 staged town halls . now he back in denver . next up arizona. where I’m sure acorn already is paying off people to pretend they like him . looks like he went back into his default mode. because he kinda sucks at governing. & he found out its lot harder than it looks .
on February 17th, 2009 at 8:23 pm
disco—–i agree that it should happen here, if it happens in india.
but….with the exception of the wonderful gals here at hireheels, and all of the other pumas, women in america have no passion for changing this patriarchy. It’s disgusting.
But thank god for you, the hireheels and all other pumas! it gives me hope.
on February 17th, 2009 at 8:52 pm
I think you are right cindy, most US women are not interested in challenging the patriarchy. Many are steeped in denial that such a thing even exists. Others have made trade-offs, allied with the patriarchy, and believe they get enough personal benefit from the status quo to not rock the boat. Well, the boat is sinking and the testosterone fueled military and corporate warriors drilled the hole.