"There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic. "

Anais Nin

what are we...

How could you define a WOMAN...
if I watch Myriam and webster dictionary I find this:

woman/battered woman/ syndrome/fancy woman/little woman/other woman/strange woman/woman of letters/woman of the street/woman suffrage
Main Entry: wom·an
Pronunciation: 'wu-m&n, especially Southern 'wO- or 'w&-Function: nounInflected Form(s): plural wom·en /'wi-m&n/Etymology: Middle English, from Old English wIfman, from wIf woman, wife + man human being, man1 a : an adult female person b : a woman belonging to a particular category (as by birth, residence, membership, or occupation) -- usually used in combination 2 : WOMANKIND3 : distinctively feminine nature : WOMANLINESS4 : a woman who is a servant or personal attendant5 a chiefly dialect : WIFE b : MISTRESS c : GIRLFRIEND 2 - woman adjective - wom·an·less /-l&s/ adjective

are we first females?
are we defined by our clothes?
our sex?
our body?
our mind?
our having or not children?

the right to have children or not to have children
the right to live alone, with a woman, or with a man
the right to live the way you want...

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Your blog is so wonderful, its grown so since my last visit....so creative

Woman is the receptical soul in which all seeds once planted grow,and through much labour,finally given birth to.......the gift, her creation that both soothes and nourishes others bringing with it a timeless quality

Your space is what defines a woman mousie

Thank you

Audrey

Icarus said...

Bonsoir Mme Mousie! I have just read & answered your very recent comment to mine.
On yout subject here, as a 'bloke'who adores women (definitely my favourite gender for zillions of reasons I won't go into :-), and not the slightest patronising) and is probably as much an honorary member of the sistahood as anything else, i will offer this one small contribution:
women have come a long way in some places (only) and in some ways (only), but until men stop holding most of the cards and until there is true equality of opportunity and treatment, then all women will only be able to live a part-citizenship, in fact a sub-citizenship. And that, in my book, ain't good enough! Now, whaddya think of that one?