A week before I wrote about what women want. A few years back I wrote a letter to my daughter and this year I wanted to share a few inspiring quotes by women which made me think.

20 Women’s Day Quotes to Inspire you

I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.”

― Anaïs Nin, Henry and June: From “A Journal of Love”: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1931-1932

Unfortunately, there are more of that kind and hate is too strong an emotion

A man writes to separate himself from the common history. A woman writes to try to join it.”

― Sara Collins, The Confessions of Frannie Langton

So very interesting. I started writing at a very difficult time in my personal and professional life and I can tell you with all my heart that I found soul sisters in strange places. Only possible when we try to join in, right?

“I’m a woman. I have a right to change my mind.”

― Sidney Sheldon, Master of the Game

Who knows better than another woman how seriously we take this quote. I have a right to be right , right?

Woman! Get To The Throne Room, Shun The Phone Booth…The Solution Is In The Throne Room!”

― Jaachynma N.E. Agu, Woman: You’ve Got ALL IT TAKES!

Seriously this one made me laugh.I need to focus more on the throne room too!

Everybody has a little bit of the sun and moon in them. Everybody has a little bit of man, woman, and animal in them. Darks and lights in them. Everyone is part of a connected cosmic system. Part earth and sea, wind and fire, with some salt and dust swimming in them. We have a universe within ourselves that mimics the universe outside. None of us are just black or white, or never wrong and always right. No one. No one exists without polarities. Everybody has good and bad forces working with them, against them, and within them.

PART SUN AND MOON by Suzy Kassem”

A lot of different shades red, white and grey. That’s what makes up a woman. Take it or leave it, until you accept it happiness is a challenge.

“I think the most powerful thing a woman can have is confidence.”

― Rowan Blanchard

That’s exactly why confident women can scare people.

A woman’s destiny, they say, is not fulfilled until she holds in her arms her own little book.”

― Caroline Mytinger, Headhunting In The Solomon Islands: Around The Coral Se

This one is the sweetest one. If who haven’t done this yet, make 2020 the year of The Book.

“When a woman rises up in glory, her energy is magnetic and her sense of possibility contagious.”

― Marianne Williamson, A Woman’s Worth

Oh don’t we know it? For all the women we love and love to hate, the sense of possibility is indeed contagious.You can’t help but believe.

“Some days I am more wolf than woman, and I am still learning how to stop apologizing for my wild.”

― Nikita Gill

The difference between wild and unkind is narrow indeed. How do men walk the path without being scared of either?

Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women.”

― Maya Angelou

This is why you, me and all our sisters need to stand up where we are with what we have when we can. Because there really is no better time than now, this minute. Stand up and stay strong.

It takes a female to have a baby,
It takes a woman to raise a child,
It takes a mother to raise them correctly,
It takes a warrior to show them how to change the world.”

― Shannon L. Alder

Being a mother is the greatest adventure and the toughest test .there are no yes and no answers and definitely no answer sheets.

“She is like a butterfly,
Beautiful to look at
But hard to catch.”

― Nikki Rowe

Why do men want to catch everything beautiful? Free and freedom are what make them beautiful in the first place. Take that away you have just the shell. The spirit is lost forever.

“When a woman conceives her true self, a miracle occurs and life around her begins again.”

― Marianne Williamson

This is true for all women who start doing the thing they always wanted to do. One day this will be true for all women.

“One by one she slew her fears, and then planted a flower garden over their graves.”

― John Mark Green

This is what all women try to do every day of their life.

Once you embrace your value, talents, and strengths, it neutralizes when others think less of you.”

― Rob Liano

This is what separates girls from women.

“Real women fight for something, other than their own emotions.”

― Shannon L. Alder

A battle where we always fight for our sisters, daughters and all other women whose story follows in parallel lines.

 “A truly happy woman drives some men and almost every other woman absolutely crazy”

― John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany

If happiness is contagious and for happiness to come you must accept yourself with all the flaws and scars.

A woman is a full circle.Within her is the power to create, nurture and transform.”

― Diane Mariechild

The reason why women are not allowed to know their own self in many parts of the world. Don’t let people tell you what you can’t do.

“Don’t fall in love with a woman who reads, a woman who feels too much, a woman who writes…
Don’t fall in love with an educated, magical, delusional, crazy woman. Don’t fall in love with a woman who thinks, who knows what she knows and also knows how to fly; a woman sure of herself.
Don’t fall in love with a woman who laughs or cries making love, knows how to turn her spirit into flesh; let alone one that loves poetry (these are the most dangerous), or spends half an hour contemplating a painting and isn’t able to live without music.
Don’t fall in love with a woman who is interested in politics and is rebellious and feel a huge horror from injustice. One who does not like to watch television at all. Or a woman who is beautiful no matter the features of her face or her body.
Don’t fall in love with a woman who is intense, entertaining, lucid and irreverent. Don’t wish to fall in love with a woman like that. Because when you fall in love with a woman like that, whether she stays with you or not, whether she loves you or not, from a woman like that, you never come back.”

― Martha Rivera-Garrido #Womensday

So many people say so many things. To all my women friends stay strong and keep inspiring. I am always rooting for you

“There is something incredibly beautiful about a woman, who knows herself, she can’t break, she just falls but in every fall she rises, past who she was before.”

― Nikki Rowe

You my dear friend if you are reading this you must believe in yourself even when no one else does. That’s how we can become the generation of equality

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What do Women Want?

I don’t claim to know what other women want, but if you are reading my blog and you are a woman, you will likely want some of the things I have listed here. This is a part of my #International Women’s’ day series. Don’t forget to subscribe to my newsletter to get all the posts in the series.

If you are an Indian woman born in a middle-class family anywhere in the world, you know the drill right?

Study hard. Grow up

Marry a nice man who can help support your dreams and respects you and whom you can respect. It’s great if you have kids buy a home and save for your pension and live happily ever after.

What no one tells you about is the struggle you will face as a working woman and as a mother later in your life

Women want validation a little support and the need to feel they can do their thing without letting down others

Women are natural caregivers and mother earth material. With our overload of empathy and social conditioning putting our needs first takes a lot of work.

We not only suffer from societal pressure but also internal guilt. Its a constant struggle balancing self need over family need. But what does the woman want to have to do with all this?

The woman’s heart loves taking care but she also needs to be taken care of. She needs those who love her t tell her that she can go fight her battles and they will have her back. She needs them to tell her the dinner will be ready when she has an urgent late meeting.

She needs her partner to get the homework done with the kids when she takes on a new project.

Women hold up half the sky

Mao Zedong

She needs family support for the days when she juggles home and work. Don’t men expect the same and get it? If women hold up half the sky, shouldn’t we get at least half the social support?

But why am I writing all this?

I am grateful for getting more support from my spouse, family, and society than many others.

But then I realized, the buck doesn’t stop at just Beti Bachao Beti padao.

Dr.Amrita Basu

Because we need to teach the older society the men and women that they must support the working mom, work from home mom, stay at home mom , who to be and stay financially independent. If you are okay with the majority of women not paying taxes, because they are not having a taxable income, that’s strange for a society.

Potential talent, resources, and money are lost when you make professionally educated women, strictly caregivers because of a lack of sensitivity at the corporate level. Lack of policymakers representing female interest and just lack of empathy.

In a world with women everywhere struggling to find their voice and place at the table its time, each of us tries some more.

When I left my Government job it was a conscious decision to build my own practice. It helps me earn but with my time schedule being a priority. I don’t have to worry about shifting night emergencies struggling with sudden leaves and all the random other things I was struggling with. But that’s not a choice everyone wants or has.

What Society can do to help?

I feel Government and corporate, should have in house child care and at least a preschool facility offered for all parents working. Because childcare is not just a mother’s responsibility.

Having the child close to the office means parents being able to pop in at break times and more. It helps moms get back to work after the period of maternity leave much more smoothly. That’s when we struggle with having a baby at home, starting weaning and getting back to our professional lives.

It helps parents become more productive and fewer work hours lost.

It helps moms get back into the mainstream without suffering from insecurity and lost opportunity. Since businesses first have to make money, their bottom line will improve, if their workforce takes less unscheduled leaves.

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