Happy Womans Day - Page 2

thanks melz for this nice thread

Thanks for this thread, Meli.

International Women Day has been a celebration of women and their struggle for recognition as individuals. Meli has given all the information but it would also be good if you read yourselves the marches against discrimination and the fights by suffragettes such as Emmeline Pankhurst. Did you know in times where economy was down, it was the women labour force that persevered and fought along side with men for greater workers' rights? Or in times of war, it was the women who ran the factories, the hospitals, who drove lorries, tanks, ambulances and so on? Yet when it came to a simple right such as the right to vote, 55% of the population of the world were denied that right just because they were perceived to be the "weaker sex" by the "stupid sex"?

The best song to sum up was a song called "I Am Woman" by Helen Reddy, which was adopted as theme for women all over the world - West, East wherever.

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

CHORUS
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

CHORUS

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
Oh, I am woman
I am invincible
I am strong

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmExAiCcaPk

HAPPY INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY, SISTERS!!

HAPPY INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY LADIES.