I have been thinking about that question alot lately! See in my list of how I view myself I added that I felt weak, not something I have really ever thought about myself. I think that if you look at society what types of women do we think are strong, names that come to my mind are; Joan or arc, Jane Austen (for historical women), or even Mother Theresa, and Rosa Parks, some modern women Mya Angelo, Hilary Clinton, Michelle Obama, Opera Winfrey, (I am a scientist by trade so) Marie Curie, I also find SARK to be a very strong woman, also Georgia O' Keefe. What theme I notice between all of these women they are noted for what they did they are famous for doing but I wonder would Marie Curie have been so successful in her scientific work on radioactivity if she wasn't sure in who she was as a person. I like to use SARK as an example I love her books she is a survivor and is constantly in her work reforming and discovering who she is, so even though she is firm in who she is she is completely open about her transformations and that her work is not what she is nor does it define her, she is always speaking of her relationships with other women or men and how much they help to define her or how certain persons have helped her to discover herself. I think that a very strong concept I have learned about in my readings of different cultures and ways of life or spirituality is found in the information I have learned about the ancient Celtics and how they had somewhat of a mentoring type program for their young ladies. Girls were encouraged to be strong in themselves and had the support of those around them to find ways to discover who they were and to show them how to be strong women. Interesting how today girls are often left to figure this out on their own through college. Clearly a few girls might be lucky and have some wonderfully influential persons in their lives that help them to see who they are and to help them develop this. This is an awesome thing when it happens. I am sure that many of the influential or strong women I listed above had people like this in their lives. So whats my point, I know I tend to take a long time to get to my point sometimes. I think that in an effort to explore your own inner strength or rediscover if you know you had it at one point it is important to keep our eyes open and to see those people in our lives that can help us learn to have self love. After all, we don't live in a bubble and there are wonderful people out there both men and women who know exactly who they are and what they believe and know about themselves. So what I propose is that we keep our eyes open and learn, ask questions, and study, study women that you feel are already in love with who they are, and how were these women able to get to that point, was it something internal was it an event or were they guided like the ancient Celtic women. Let me know what you find out! Oh by the way did you know that March is Womens History Month ( I think March has alot of issues packed into it), I had no idea that there was a womens history month. Maybe I will use April to celebrate this on my blog since I just discovered this little tidbit. So today I list the women I think of as influential and strong. Maybe tomorrow I will have start talking specifically about the women and why I think of them as influential what in them makes me pick them over all the other people, what is it about those persons that makes me see them as strong and then perhaps I will look at some little known strong women. Let me know what you think about that. Looking at different strong women might help us to learn how to love ourself and in turn become strong influential people all our own.
Have Fun Learning about other Strong Women!
