THE STRENGTH OF THE GENTLE WOMEN
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Iskra Doneva
The Woman for me is synonym for cosmogenic principle of creation, fertility, birth, motherhood, love, passion, beauty, grace, tenderness, wisdom, intuition, wisdom, vision, compassion, imagination, curiosity and unwavering strength and durability. I have on my mind women who believed in themselves, in their strength and power and the need for progress and improvement. Making small gestures for themselves, but huge for humanity, with love, dedication, perseverance and dedication, they have left an indelible mark in the history, proof of the power of the individuals. Regardless of their age, skin color, class, property, education or what time or what circumstances they lived in and worked, they changed the world forever.
Amazon women warriors, Sappho, Cleopatra, Coco Chanel, Queen Victoria, Elizabeth I and II, Catherine the Great, Marie Antoinette, Marie Curie, Princess Diana, Mother Teresa, Anne Frank, Florence Nightingale, Jane Austen, Mary Wollstonecraft, Virginia Woolf, Indira Gandhi, Benazir Bhutto, Oprah Winfrey, Melinda Gates, Katharine and Audrey Hepburn, Margaret Thatcher, Grace Kelly, Princess of Monaco, George Sand, Isadora Duncan, Frida Kahlo, Maria Callas, Simon De Bovuar, Eleanor Roosevelt, Jackie Kennedy Onassis, Billie Jean King, Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, Dr. Mae Jamison, Amelia Earhat, Valentina Tereshkova, Isabel Peron, Malala Jusazai, Rigoberta Menchú Tum, Shirin Ebadi, Aung San Sui Kyi, Wangari Muta Mathai Ellen Johnson Shirlif Susan Anthony, Eva Peron, Billie Holiday, Marilyn Monroe, Rosa Parks, Dorothy Hodgkin, Emily Dickinson, Helen Keller, Marie Stops, Margaret Hefild, Eliza Leonida Zamfiresku, Sofia Ionescu, Elena Rubinstajn, Grace Murray Hopper, Rosalinda Franklin … Iskra Doneva … The line seems infinitely long, but it is justified, and it wasn’t intentional if I skipped someone because there is so much to say about these names, and the space for this opportunity is limited. I advise you to read more about them and find out why they are so special and are the best in their fields.
ommon to all of them and many other famous or anonymous women (such as those that extinguishing fire at Pearl Harbor) is that they had a dream for progress, had a vision to realize, had high awareness and courage to sense the right moment to seize chance and inscribe history. To make the necessary changes for progress, improvement and modernization. Changed or saved thousands, millions of lives, often for the price of their own life (a consequence of the invention, accident, homicide or suicide). Тhey were not falling under the pressure with which they were confronted in personal life. Nor to the social prejudices that stigmatized the women as “weaker sex” and consequently often leaving them without basic human rights and freedoms.
Even the most usual woman, the housewife, usually on her own back assumed more responsibilities and roles in everyday life, could not remain deaf in font of these injustices. Revolutionary raised her voice, not afraid of anything. Showed to the world that under the apron of the unrecognized woman a graceful swan is hiding, wise mother matron, firm ruler, warrior, educated woman with a strong thought and pen, curious researcher, scientist, compassionate doctor, persistent athlete, beautiful and talented actress, sex symbol of the century, engineer woman, prosperous businesswoman, brave woman pilot, astronaut and many else…
All this is proof that every woman has the potential to give something of herself, to contribute to a better tomorrow, to become a leader and model of behavior, especially if it has the support and the understanding of the closest one and the environment. People generally have androgenic possessions of a man and a woman, but the advantage to know where and when properly to use it, is a virtue. Both women and men are the only human beings who should complement and help each other. We should not be competing who is stronger, better, smarter than the other, but to strive to discover their own identity and characteristics that are allocating as original and unique personalities. To nurture them, to improve, to put into operation for the common and greater good. For each new day to become a better version of ourselves. At the end, it doesn’t matter how long we live, but how we live and whether we will leave behind us a clear mark to be remembered by the future generations …
The gentle women’s strength is all around us. Seek it, identify it and be inspired by it, to find your value, test and move your own borders. Otherwise you will never find out if perhaps your name is next in line of women, the people who changed the world.
The opinions expressed herein are the author's and do not necessarily represent the views of Pivara Skopje.
