~ One Woman~ A dedication to the Women of DU.
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We come in many shapes and sizes~
Our color may differ yet we stand as One Woman~
Two feet firmly planted...will be joined with others~
Now we are many voices standing for our rights~
Together we sing and our voices rise in harmony ~
We are Strong. We are invincible. We are Women~
And~
We are Women- Watch us Soar~
Truth!~
I Am Woman
I am woman, hear me roar
In numbers too big to ignore
And I know too much to go back an' pretend
'Cause I've heard it all before
And I've been down there on the floor
No one's ever gonna keep me down again
Oh yes, I am wise
But it's wisdom born of pain
Yes, I've paid the price
But look how much I gained
If I have to, I can do anything
I am strong
(Strong)
I am invincible
(Invincible)
I am woman
You can bend but never break me
'Cause it only serves to make me
More determined to achieve my final goal
And I come back even stronger
Not a novice any longer
'Cause you've deepened the conviction in my soul
Oh yes, I am wise
But it's wisdom born of pain
Yes, I've paid the price
But look how much I gained
If I have to, I can do anything
I am strong
(Strong)
I am invincible
(Invincible)
I am woman
I am woman watch me grow
See me standing toe to toe
As I spread my lovin' arms across the land
But I'm still an embryo
With a long, long way to go
Until I make my brother understand
Oh yes, I am wise
But it's wisdom born of pain
Yes, I've paid the price
But look how much I gained
If I have to, I can face anything
I am strong
(Strong)
I am invincible
(Invincible)
I am woman
I am woman
I am invincible
I am strong
I am woman
I am invincible
I am strong
I am woman
Read more: Helen Reddy - I Am Woman Lyrics | MetroLyrics
This is for seabeyond and bainesbane who seem to be IMHO alert stalked here. And for the loss of redqueen, you too Whisp. Stop silencing our voices. There is no need to talk over us. There is no need to shut us up or shut us down. Our voices and our goals are for our future, our childrens future. Why are you so afraid of us?
This is for every Woman on DU and beyond. This is for all the men that love us and fight for us every damn day. We are Women and we will not sit down and shut up. Some try to make us. Funny thing is, they have no clue who they are dealing with.
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You were one of those men I was talking about. The ones who love and support us!
Thank you!
You rallied for us last weekend, I love you for that!
Still I Rise
by Maya Angelou
You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise.
Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
'Cause I walk like I've got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.
Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I'll rise.
Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops,
Weakened by my soulful cries?
Does my haughtiness offend you?
Don't you take it awful hard
'Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines
Diggin' in my own backyard.
You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I'll rise.
Does my sexiness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I've got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?
Out of the huts of history's shame
I rise
Up from a past that's rooted in pain
I rise
I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.
- See more at: http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15623#sthash.rzSjIksx.dpuf
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024805722
Knew you were with us in spirit!
PEACE & LOVE! 
So Beautiful!
Yes, we man-haters.
Thank you Texasgal!
Our dreams, our hopes, our future, lmsp!
Attended the We Are Woman rally in DC last week! I was a lttle disappointed at the numbers and we got rained on but it was still great. The speakers were very good. So happy to see that most of the crowd was young!!!
Peace and love always, sister!
Peace and equality are wonderful things, are they not?
We share the same vision, my beautiful and inspiring sister!
yet i think you make fun of that picture...
So here are a few others.
aging
There's a little girl inside each of us, no matter what age we are.
Very nice post. 
More like this, please.
Let us not forget our fore-mothers!
The Equal Rights Amendment, written by Alice Paul, is introduced in Congress
“We shall not be safe until the principle of equal rights is written into the framework of our government.”
– Alice Paul
If the states ratify it, the Equal Rights Amendment introduced today in Congress would require government to treat men and women with exact equality.
Winning the vote three years ago was a big step. Yet women are still not full citizens. Many states still prohibit women from serving on juries, and differences continue in married women’s rights to control property and make contracts.
Alice Paul, who wrote the ERA and helped found the National Women’s Party which backs it, says the only remedy is to amend the Constitution again.
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Maggie Fox (aka Mrs. Mark Udall) is known for her red boots. A brilliant and delightful person in her own right, she only recently stepped down from her position as CEO of Al Gore's Climate Reality Project. We're looking forward to her visit in a couple of days.
Brava!
I will add another woman!
Wendy Davis ...Texas~
We are women and so very strong. To us for us. We are beautiful.
Yes! Brava!!!!! 
Sisters~ Thank you for that video Kath! dayum that was awesome!
Sending a powerful message. ~Always loved that one~
Sisterhood is awesome!
Thanks for the thread, sheshe.
You struck a chord with us, she.
With all the negative shit going on, it is wonderful to see such response to something so positive!
...one friend who always makes her laugh...
... and one who lets her cry...
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...a past juicy enough that she's looking forward to retelling it in her old age...
Dayum~ Loving you FormerOstrich
Cheers to all my sisters!
that song came out my first year in college I believe, 1971. It got me through so many break ups, disappointments, being told that I should go home and get married and have babies rather than go to college even when I carried 18 hours and made over a 3.0 grade point. Being paid less than the man I was training. Oddly it still rings in my mind way too often. I had thought back then that it was only a short time until we could put our struggles behind us because, WHAT? How could anyone not see the importance of letting us participate? Well there ya have it. At 60 I am tired of it all and angry, downright damned angry that it is really not a whole lot better than it was then and maybe not at all. Not where it matters anyway.
Thank you to you sheshe2 and all the others that fight it here every day. My fight has been elsewhere because I thought I already did this one and quite frankly I am sick to death of having to prove I should be allowed to exist unmolested and uncontrolled by others notions of what I should be. Keep it up ladies. It is a long and hard struggle.
That is exactly what she is saying. My my you are quick aren't you. 
For the ones I adore. For their Strength Humanity Beauty Grace and Compassion.
This for all the beautiful wonderful men that take our backs every damn day. Dayum there are so many here Violet! Sadly you don't know them.
It was suggested to me that I let this go....however this is my parting gift to you.
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LOL~ Helen ready sucks~ snort got it, VC.
Wow just wow that you said that!
here ya go~ for us bland and insipid women that mean crap to you.
You were to young to know the women that built what you are standing on today. Wow that's sad Violet as you too are a woman.
Do you happen to know any of these women?
Women's Rights Movement in the U.S.
Timeline of Key Events in the American Women's Rights Movement
1848–1920
by Ann-Marie Imbornoni
Discover the key events of the women's rights movement in the United States. This timeline covers the years of 1848 to 1920, which includes the famed women's rights convention in Seneca Falls, N.Y., the formation of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, and the passage of the nineteenth amendment to the Constitution, giving women the right to vote.
1848–1899 • 1900–1920 • 1921–1979 • 1980–Present
1848
The first women's rights convention is held in Seneca Falls, New York. After 2 days of discussion and debate, 68 women and 32 men sign a Declaration of Sentiments, which outlines grievances and sets the agenda for the women's rights movement. A set of 12 resolutions is adopted calling for equal treatment of women and men under the law and voting rights for women.
1850
The first National Women's Rights Convention takes place in Worcester, Mass., attracting more than 1,000 participants. National conventions are held yearly (except for 1857) through 1860.
Top
1869
May
Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton form the National Woman Suffrage Association. The primary goal of the organization is to achieve voting rights for women by means of a Congressional amendment to the Constitution.
Read more: Women's Rights Movement in the U.S.: Timeline of Events (1848-1920) | Infoplease.com http://www.infoplease.com/spot/womenstimeline1.html#ixzz3E7OWtNqX
Or were they to bland and insipid for you as well.
Some of us have been on the floor I am talking beaten onto the floor, have you? I have. We got knocked down there but we got back up again and again, if you have then it is so very sad that you are amused by this song.
Have a great life Violet~ we are done.
And for the woman who's always been closest to me, who was raped by a stranger as a child and grew up to be the strongest woman I know. Feminism is about equality and strength, and fighting to keep and improve the gains that have been made since the days of my mother and grandmother. At least that's what feminism means to me...
I hope that what's happened is solely a communication breakdown (actually that's one of the few songs from the 70's I like). I'll offer this post in that spirit and you can do with it as you will...
There's some good blokes at DU. Having been here since pretty much the start, I know pretty much all long-term DUers, so I think yr wrong on that one...
I never said women were bland and insipid and meant crap to me. I recall saying that Helen Reddy's music was bland and insipid, which being on a par with Olivia Newton John and the early Bee Gees, it was. Having an aversion to mainstream early 70's music doesn't turn me into someone who thinks women are bland and insipid.
Well, the problem there is you've copied and pasted a timeline of the American women's rights movement. I'm not an American. I live in a country where we have our own history, was one of the first countries to get the vote, and have already had a female Prime Minister. So, this is what I'm familiar with.
31 October 1827
First Female Workers Riot
First Female Workers Riot occured at the Parramatta Female Factory over conditions and food deprivation.
1884
First Australian Suffrage Society
Henrietta Dugdale and Annie Lowe formed the Victorian Women’s Suffrage Society
20 July 1888
Organising women’s suffrage in South Australia
Women’s Suffrage League formed in South Australia
21 March 1895
Votes for women in South Australia
The proclamation of South Australia’s Suffrage Act, assented to by Queen Victoria on 2 February, gave women an equal right with men to vote, and to stand for election to the Colony’s House of Assembly.
Women with property could also vote in Legislative Council elections, but women could not stand for the upper House of the parliament until 1959.
15 May 1900
Women win the vote in Western Australia
West Australian women win the vote in WA elections with Queen Victoria’s assent to the Bill passed by the WA parliament on 15 December 1899
9 July 1900
Australian Constitution
Queen Victoria’s Assent enacts the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution
12 June 1902
Federal suffrage
Commonwealth Franchise Act grants right to vote and stand for election for the Australian parliament to women on the same basis as men, with Aboriginal people in some States still without this right
16 December 1903
First Australian women stand for federal parliament elections
Vida Goldstein, Nellie Martel, and Mary Ann Moore Bentley stand for the Senate, and Selina Siggins for the seat of Dalley in the House of Representatives
29 February 1904
Votes for women in Tasmania
Tasmanian women won an equal right with men to vote in elections for the House of Assembly. Women with property were eligible to vote for the Legislative Council and from 29 October 1920 those who served in the 1914-18 war were also eligible to vote for the upper House. An equal right to stand for election to both Houses was won two years later.
23 October 1907
Australian Exhibition of Women’s Work opens
Opening of the Australian Exhibition of Women’s Work in Melbourne by Lady Northcote, with Pattie Deakin running a model creche during the five-week exhibition showcasing the work of musicians, artists and craftswomen
31 March 1909
Votes for women in Victoria
Women in Victoria won an equal right with men to vote in State elections. Only women who met the propery qualification could vote in Legislative Council elections. Victorian women won an equal right o stand for election to both Houses of their State parliament in 1924.
12 March 1921
First woman elected to an Australian parliament
Edith Cowan (Nationalist, West Perth) became the first woman to be elected to an Australian parliament. She served in the Western Australian Legislative Assembly until 22 March 1924.
12 August 1921
Australian Federation of Women Voters
Bessie Rischbieth founded this federated body of Australian women’s political associations as a national group to liaise with international feminist organisations and establish credentials as lobbyists and advisers at the League of Nations.
An immediate success of the AFWV was lobbying prime minister Billy Hughes to have a woman included on Australia’s delegations to the annual League of Nations General Assembly. From 1922 Australia was one of the few member nations to comply with the equailty provision in the covenant of the League in including a woman on each official delegation.
26 August 1925
First woman member speaks in the NSW Parliament
Millicent Preston-Stanley, elected to the NSW Legislative Assembly in May 1925, delivered her first speech two weeks after the opening of the parliament.
23 September 1943
First women elected to the federal parliament
Dame Enid Lyons becomes a member of the House of Representatives for the United Australia Party, and the Australian Labor Party’s Dorothy Tangney takes a seat in the Senate representing West Australia
1966
SA Council of Aboriginal Women
Founded by Gladys Elphick, a Kaurna descendant
1969
Zelda D’Aprano
In 1969, Zelda D’Aprano chained herslef to the Commonweath Building in Melbourne. 35 years later (2004) she was awarded the Officer of the Order of Australia in recognition of her campaigning on women’s workplace issues.
19 June 1969
Equal Pay
After decades of campaigning, Australian women workers win equal pay rates with men doing comparable work under an Arbitration Commission decision for incremental increases, with pay parity eventually achieved in 1972
February 1972
WEL
The Women’s Electoral Lobby (WEL) began in Feb 1972 when 10 women met in a femisnists home to disuss ways of playing a more influential role in the election planned for December that year.
31 August 1975
Australia celebrates International Women’s Day
The Australian Government held the first national conference from 31 August to 6 September in1975 on the status of women (Women and Politics) and committed Australia to celebrating International Women’s Day with other member nations of the United Nations.
The conference generated a great deal of debate in Australia. Some conference delegates invaded the offices of the Canberra Times to protest about the coverage of the conference.
25 April 1981
ANZAC Day. Women arrested while marching to remember women raped in war.
In the early ’80s, a number of Australian women attempted to join official ANZAC Day marches because they wanted to commemorate all women who had been raped in wars.
In 1980, fourteen women who tried to do this in Canberra were arrested. The following year, again in Canberra, around 250 women attempted to join the tail of the official ANZAC Day march but were stopped by police and directed not to march. The police were acting under a Section 23A of the Traffic Ordinance, a section that had only been gazetted the day before the march. As a result about 64 people, mainly women, were arrrested and charged with failing to obey the police directive.
The special legislation, march and arrests that took place aroundthat Anzac Day in 1981 gave rise to a great deal of debate in the Canberra Times.
1983
Australia becomes CEDAW signatory
Australia becomes a signatory to the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW).
1 July 1989
National Foundation for Australian Women launched
The official launch of the National Foundation for Australian Women was at the National Press Club in Canberra on 1 July 1989. A series of mini-launches in all states and territories were held in the following six months.
8 March 2000
Women’s History Month 2000 launched
Hon. Margaret Reid, Senator for the ACT and President of the Senate, launched Women’s History Month in Parliament House Canberra.
12 February 2002
Women’s History Month 2002 launched
http://womenshistory.net.au/timeline/
I have, but I'm not seeing why every woman who's ever been knocked down to the floor MUST like Helen Reddy. Women have different taste in music, and Helen Reddy and music from that era doesn't do it for me. I'm more from the Madonna era, and it's a shame you said we're done, as not only will you miss learning about the Australian women's movement, but yr about to miss out on some music that I guess speaks to me as a woman and a feminist, even though Madonna's been a bit patchy throughout her career and probably as mainstream as I get....
You have a wonderful life as well, sheshe. I'm always here if yr ever in the mood to learn about the Australian women's movement or get some good musical tips
Powerful and wise.
Thank you Women of DU!
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Beautiful Graphic to go with Anaïs Nin's timeless quote~
Edit: Change "and" to "an".. ooops!
tears and love and spirit! we are one woman!
You are one women!~
And damn we are strong!
your OP.
your words, with music.
then read thru the replies. just one hiccup of discontent, to such an uplifting thread. why? oh why?, lol.
this is such a beautiful OP. we are always fluid in progression.
I should stop there but after reading some posts in this thread I am duty bound as a compassionate person to say the following. Yes I believe alert stalking happens and yes I believe the people that you mentioned were alert stalked (yes i believe there is a small contingent on DU that do that to a certain Group). I find absolutely nothing wrong with your OP and it just boggles they mind why anyone would (except the people well you know...).
At this point so, I myself am not alert stalked again (and yes I have seen the jury results from not to long ago that proves it was alert stalking and not against community standards because of the o-6, o-7 leaves results). I leave you with the following
Some people are just gonna hate, thats all there is to it, they will use evey excuse in the world and justify it to no end on why they are doing it, but that still doesn't make it right.
So please take my advice when I say this, the ignore feature is your friend (that is if you cannot let a outrageous post get by after seeing it. Do not, I repeat, do not give them a stage to act out on. Take away their stage and you take away their ability to essentially bully.
I have plenty more to say on the subject but will stop here.
I will leave you with this thought. never give up the fight for standing up for women everywhere. That my friend is a fight worth defending.
Thank you
Thank you for all that you said here.
ONE REMARKABLE Woman!
Thank you for that great quote, napkinz.
She was indeed remarkable!
I will catch that on my next day off. Thank you for the links, napkinz.
Rec
You remind me sort of like Joan Jett.
But, I guess that's better than Joan of Arc, since she got burned at the stake and all.
You are my hero, you know that, don't you?
Well, now you do.
You are the sweetest Major Hogwash.
Luv ya too~
And thanks, I prefer the comparison to Joan Jett than Joan of Arc.
Western because we have access to the resources needed, and woman because, well, sisterhood is powerful. (And I'm a male. )
