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Ms Piggy
8th March 2007, 08:15
Today is a day for us!

http://www.internationalwomensday.com/default.asp :Punk:

Wasp
8th March 2007, 09:13
Happy womans day everybody! :first:

ooooohhh...... right......

Trudes
8th March 2007, 09:23
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 face 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

Oh, I am woman
I am invincible
I am strong
I am woman
I am invincible
I am strong
I am woman

I actually hate that song, but everytime I get told I can't do something or I feel disadvantaged for being a woman, that song always pops into my head. I by no means consider myself a staunch women's libber, but having done a women's study paper at Massey and having been a woman half my life (a girl before that), I do understand and sympathise with what some women must still endure and suffer from today for being born a female.
Go us Chicks!!

Lissa
8th March 2007, 09:24
Yay... Might go sit in the sun all day long... bugger the washing!! :D

I'm not a religious person but I like this:


Why Women Cry
Watch her eyes

A little boy asked his mother, "Why are you crying?" "Because I'm a woman," she told him.

"I don't understand," he said. His Mom just hugged him and said, "And you never will."

Later the little boy asked his father, "Why does mother seem to cry for no reason?"

"All women cry for no reason," was all his dad could say.

The little boy grew up and became a man, still wondering why women cry. Finally he put in a call to God. When God got on the phone, he asked, "God, why do women cry so easily?"

God said: "When I made the woman she had to be special.

I made her shoulders strong enough to carry the weight of the world, yet gentle enough to give comfort.

I gave her an inner strength to endure childbirth and the rejection that many times comes from her children.

I gave her a hardness that allows her to keep going when everyone else gives up, and take care of her family through sickness and fatigue without complaining.

I gave her the sensitivity to love her children under any and all circumstances, even when her child has hurt her very badly.

I gave her strength to carry her husband through his faults and fashioned her from his rib to protect his heart.

I gave her wisdom to know that a good husband never hurts his wife, but sometimes tests her strengths and her resolve to stand beside him unfalteringly.

And finally, I gave her a tear to shed. This is hers exclusively to use whenever it is needed."

"You see my son," said God, "the beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries, or the way she combs her hair.

The beauty of a woman must be seen in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart - the place where love resides."

Trudes
8th March 2007, 09:26
Yep, why the hell not!!

jrandom
8th March 2007, 09:56
Women of the world!

Arise from the beds of your oppressors!

And cook us breakfast.

Toaster
8th March 2007, 09:59
Good on ya women - enjoy ya day. I guess us white males get the rest of the year to ourselves, since no-one celebrates us?

jrandom
8th March 2007, 14:14
I guess us white males get the rest of the year to ourselves, since no-one celebrates us?

It's OK, dude. We get our appreciation every time those roaringly independent women swipe their secondary-cardholder gold VISAs ;)

Colapop
8th March 2007, 14:28
I told my mate it was International Women's Day - She hit me and told me not to get smart! Bitch!

avgas
8th March 2007, 14:52
Woohooo international womens day...........lets go look at some right now

mstriumph
8th March 2007, 15:18
sexist, elitist, patronizing, discriminatory poppycock!!!! :angry:



.....:o erm - does that mean i can have the rest of the day off to go for a ride?? :love:

Maha
8th March 2007, 15:25
I am woman,


Helen Ready????.......Burn the bra/played a 'nun' in Airport 79?...Helen Ready!
Fred Dagg did a great version of the same song........I am Bloke :rockon:

Toaster
8th March 2007, 15:34
It's OK, dude. We get our appreciation every time those roaringly independent women swipe their secondary-cardholder gold VISAs ;)

Just brilliant - I am laughing myself silly!

Xile
8th March 2007, 18:27
Happy International Day for us!!!
Something special for that?
Who lend me his bike for the next whole day?
:D

Disco Dan
8th March 2007, 20:00
Who lend me his bike for the next whole day?
:D

hey wait a minute... where my keys go.... :innocent:

Ms Piggy
13th March 2007, 06:37
PHENOMENAL WOMAN by Maya Angelou

Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.
I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size
But when I start to tell them,
They think I'm telling lies.
I say,
It's in the reach of my arms
The span of my hips,
The stride of my step,
The curl of my lips.
I'm a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That's me.

I walk into a room
Just as cool as you please,
And to a man,
The fellows stand or
Fall down on their knees.
Then they swarm around me,
A hive of honey bees.
I say,
It's the fire in my eyes,
And the flash of my teeth,
The swing in my waist,
And the joy in my feet.
I'm a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That's me.

Men themselves have wondered
What they see in me.
They try so much
But they can't touch
My inner mystery.
When I try to show them
They say they still can't see.
I say,
It's the arch of my back,
The sun of my smile,
The ride of my breasts,
The grace of my style.
I'm a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That's me.

Now you understand
Just why my head's not bowed.
I don't shout or jump about
Or have to talk real loud.
When you see me passing
It ought to make you proud.
I say,
It's in the click of my heels,
The bend of my hair,
the palm of my hand,
The need of my care.
'Cause I'm a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That's me.
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Hope all the chickadees had a good day celebrating :rockon:

hitch
13th March 2007, 07:26
Have a good day everyone its great to be recognised. :scooter:

elle-f
13th March 2007, 07:52
OMG MrsK - did you HAVE to post that song? its gonna be sung all around the wairarapa today *L*

Have a great day all :)