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Subject: BS: Happy International Women's Day From: hilda fish Date: 07 Mar 07 - 04:54 PM Happy International Women's Day. On this day I am thinking of all the wonderful women in my life, my friends, my colleagues, my sisters, nieces, great nieces, daughters, daughters-in-law, aunties, mother, oh so many women. I am also realising how inspired I am by the many creative, intellectual, warrior, nurturing, challenging, bumptious and downright obnoxious and argumentative women who live in my times and who have lived in times immemorial. Once again, Happy International Women's Day and thank-you for being part of this wonderful sisterhood of women in my life and in women's history. May we continue to create and equal tomorrow by living an inspiring and equal today. Dr. Pam Johnston |
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Subject: RE: BS: Happy International Women's Day From: Cool Beans Date: 07 Mar 07 - 05:29 PM One lousy day, that's it? My wife's gonna be maaaad. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Happy International Women's Day From: GUEST,lox Date: 07 Mar 07 - 05:35 PM Does that mean we can use the bar or not? Come on women - rally round - there's 66% men on this thread ;-) ^ ^ (Patronizing wink) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Happy International Women's Day From: bobad Date: 07 Mar 07 - 05:48 PM I'm all for international women. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Happy International Women's Day From: skipy Date: 07 Mar 07 - 05:51 PM I'm going to dress for it! Skipy |
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Subject: RE: BS: Happy International Women's Day From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 07 Mar 07 - 06:40 PM tonight I'm off to a talk on extrordinary women in a nearby council area. Some were public figures (artists, doctors, lawyers), others made jams to raise funds for small community organisations, but they all were 'Movers & Shakers' in their local communities. Happy International Women's Day to all movers & shakers around the world. sandra |
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Subject: RE: BS: Happy International Women's Day From: gnu Date: 07 Mar 07 - 06:40 PM Hey... they need a "day"? They got half the money and all the pussy. What more could they want? Everything? Oh. Yeah. Right. Sorry. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Happy International Women's Day From: gnu Date: 07 Mar 07 - 06:49 PM Hey, now. That's a joke from the movie "DC Cab". It's meant to be a joke... meant to be funny... if you care not to laugh... don't. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Happy International Women's Day From: katlaughing Date: 07 Mar 07 - 06:53 PM To All of MY Women Friends: (from an email forwarded by my sister) I Wish you Enough! (AND then some!) Recently I overheard a mother and daughter in their last moments together at the airport. They had announced the departure. Standing near the security gate, they hugged and the mother said, "I love you and I wish you enough". The daughter replied, "Mom, our life together has been more than enough. Your love is all I ever needed. I wish you enough, too, Mom". They kissed and the daughter left. The mother walked over to the window where I was seated. Standing there I could see she wanted and needed to cry. I tried not to ! intrude on her privacy but she welcomed me in by asking, "Did you ever say good-bye to someone knowing it would be forever?". Yes, I have," I replied. "Forgive me for asking, but why is this a forever good-bye?". "I am old and she lives so far away. I have challenges ahead and the reality is - the next trip back will be for my funeral," she said. "When you were saying good-bye, I heard you say, 'I wish you enough'. May I ask what that means?". She began to smile. "That's a wish that has been handed down from other generations. My parents used to say it to everyone". She paused a moment and looked up as if trying to remember it in detail and she smiled even more. "When we said , 'I wish you enough', we were wanting the other person to have a life filled with just enough good things to sustain them". Then turning toward me, she shared the following as if she were reciting it from memory. I wish you enough sun to keep your attitude bright no matter how gray the day may appear. I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun even more. I wish you enough happiness to keep your spirit alive and everlasting. I wish you enough pain so that even the smallest of joys in life may appear bigger. I wish you enough gain to satisfy your wanting. I wish you enough loss to appreciate all that you possess. I wish you enough hellos to get you through the final good-bye. She then began to cry! and walked away. They say it takes a minute to find a special person, an hour to appreciate them, a day to love them but then an entire life to forget them. luvyakat |
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Subject: RE: BS: Happy International Women's Day From: Georgiansilver Date: 07 Mar 07 - 07:42 PM Women get my vote every time. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Happy International Women's Day From: Georgiansilver Date: 07 Mar 07 - 07:43 PM I love women. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Happy International Women's Day From: Georgiansilver Date: 07 Mar 07 - 07:44 PM I seriously love women |
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Subject: RE: BS: Happy International Women's Day From: JennyO Date: 07 Mar 07 - 09:39 PM Happy International Women's Day to you Hilda Fish, and to all women, especially my friends, including Sandra in Sydney and freda underhill, and to my daughter Sam, who is just emerging from a very tough experience that she will hopefully never have to go through again. Love to you all, Jenny |
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Subject: RE: BS: Happy International Women's Day From: Cats Date: 08 Mar 07 - 02:48 AM Happy International Women's day. I usually celebrate this by being at Women's TUC and we have a big rally but this year WTUC is next week and does't coincide. Never mind. Greetings to siters everywhere. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Happy International Women's Day From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 08 Mar 07 - 06:57 AM Tonight we listened to speeches by 2 women. One is a journalist of 30+ years standing, & spoke of her experiences which included being the first woman journalist in several workplaces, including a TV program. I missed the other speaker's occupation but it was obvious she was a young mother, multiskilling. Childminding arrangements had fallen apart at the last moment, so she had baby on one hip, and 5 year old hanging around her legs, trying to get her attention as she made her speech. sandra |
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Subject: RE: BS: Happy International Women's Day From: GUEST Date: 08 Mar 07 - 08:08 AM So, when can we have a men's day ????? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Happy International Women's Day From: hilda fish Date: 08 Mar 07 - 08:45 AM Oh, sorry you missed it GUEST. It's every other day of the year. Silly you. Just read the papers tomorrow morning to remind yourself that it's Mens Day, and the day after that, and the day after that, it will still be Men's Day. Bush, or Blair, or Howard, or some man, will be on the front page, and on the back page. Poor baby - that way you'll know that it's Mens Day. Once again, sorry you've missed out so far. There! There! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Happy International Women's Day From: Liz the Squeak Date: 08 Mar 07 - 02:59 PM Menstrual cramps, Mental anxiety All my problems begin with men! Happy Day Sisters! LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Happy International Women's Day From: Mrrzy Date: 08 Mar 07 - 04:16 PM LOL, Liz! Took me a minute.... But - who are the international women? What about people who only have one passport? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Happy International Women's Day From: Zany Mouse Date: 09 Mar 07 - 04:21 AM Happy International Women's Day from me too. Incidentally it was my 55th birthday too. Rhiannon |
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Subject: RE: BS: Happy International Women's Day From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 09 Mar 07 - 05:10 AM happy birfday, Zany Mouse, you're a month younger than me! Wishing you many more happy birfdays & happy International Women's days!! sandra |
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Subject: RE: BS: Happy International Women's Day From: Jean(eanjay) Date: 09 Mar 07 - 11:00 AM On March 4th women who were peacefully protesting in front of a courthouse in Tehran were arrested. Amnesty International believes the Iranian government did this to discourage Iranian women's rights' activists from organizing further events to mark International Women's Day. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Happy International Women's Day From: Cats Date: 09 Mar 07 - 02:06 PM My brother has bought me 2 clematis for my birthday in June. They are called 'Solidarnosc' [solidarity] and have been bred in Poland to commemorate solidarity. I ordered them before Christmas for a probable May delivery but they arrived yesterday on International Women's day. How apt! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Happy International Women's Day From: GUEST,mg Date: 09 Mar 07 - 02:42 PM I happened upon two remarkable women yesterday: one was Queen Rania of Jordan who was on a Yahoo website asking for input from young women. She is a force to be contended with, and it does not hurt that she is a true beauty, like movie star beautiful. The other was Suse ?? Orman, the financial guru who was talking about empowering women financially and had some very inspiring and good points. My favorite women of the decade are the Native Australian grandmothers who went into drug dens and horrible awful places where their grandsons were using drugs and living very squalid lives...they went in their and dragged them out by the scuffs of their necks...awesome. There are some impressive women out there and more to come..I like the one..Ellen Johnson..from LIberia...and was very impressed by Mary RObinson of Ireland...in US I like Maria Cantwell and Olympia Snowe and Tipper Gore...who else...oh lots. mg mg |
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Subject: RE: BS: Happy International Women's Day From: Jean(eanjay) Date: 09 Mar 07 - 03:21 PM mg - I hadn't heard about these grandmothers before. I had heard about a mother who insisted the police get her son out of a crack house and to do this the police had to promise not to prosecute anybody else in there; the rest were happy to oblige. You're right, it is awesome and it is great to have a day where we can remember these remarkable women and all remarkable women. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Happy International Women's Day From: Cats Date: 09 Mar 07 - 05:17 PM A couple of months ago I was running a women's day in Devon and one of the activities I ran was to identify a women, living or dead, who had been an inspiration to them, a piece of music / art / poetry that had been an inspiration and one event which had made an impact on their lives. Huge amounts of discussion. Mine were My Gran who was a suffragette and been in Holloway on hunger strike so women and working men could get the vote, closely followed by Rosa Parks, the 'art' would be the poem 'First they came for the Jews', and the event.. this was difficult as it was a toss up between my father taking me on my first demonstration in Grosvenor Square outside the American Embassy and the putting up and taking down of the berlin Wall. Who would your inspirational woman be? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Happy International Women's Day From: Liz the Squeak Date: 10 Mar 07 - 04:32 AM My inspirational woman is a conglomorate - she's the woman left behind to run the country whilst the men go off to war. She's the woman who carries on regardless when the world is disintegrating around her ears. She's the woman who respects her fellow human. She's the woman who continues to care and nurture and shape the lives of others. It's impossible to narrow it down to one particular woman, there have been so many who have had an influence on our lives, simply by living to the best of their abilities. LTS |
