It is a matter of fact that the girl child is viewed as LIABILITY. Birth of a child as a girl is not celebrated. If it’s not a tragedy, to a family it’s the setback. The only expectation is that she grows up to be a presentable young woman who can get a decent spouse. So, when woman start from a point like that it’s very hard to find pride in ourselves, confidence in your own being and in your own actions. Mutation in this mentality is must in modern era where a woman delivers more output with higher efficiency in all the arenas of society.
When we hear, or read such things, we are fantasized and overwhelmed by it. But we seldom follow it or somewhere deep down ourselves, we think it not how the real world works. Yet there are many epitomes who have proved that NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR A WOMAN. Let us have a look at what these women have to say about being woman.
Mother Teresa (1979 Nobel Peace prize winner) -
We had only 4 boys and all have been adopted. These are the only girls. (She smiled about it) These are the lucky once. They didn’t end up in dustbins. They ended up with the future.
Kangana Ranutt (one
of the highest-paid actresses in India) -
Women are lot more than people think
they are and we want to find ourselves. It’s a lot more important for women to
accept themselves as opposed to others accepting them. Others opinion of you
will always shift. Their perspective will keep changing. So, as women, we don’t
have to hope that we get our due. We need to get up and get it ourselves.
J.K.Rolling (author of the Harry Potter fantasy series) -
I had failed on an epic scale. An exceptionally short lived marriage had imploded and I was jobless lone parent. I was as poor as it is possible to be in modern Britain without being homeless. I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, I was still alive and I had a daughter whom I adored a lot, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. So rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.
Malala Yousafzai (2014 Nobel Peace Prize Winner) -
Thank you to my father for not clipping my wings and letting me fly. Thank you to my mother for inspiring me to be patient, to believe in myself and be brave. I am just a committed and even stubborn who wants to see every child getting a quality education, who wants to see women having equal rights and who wants peace in every corner of the world.
Taylor Swift (most
popular contemporary female recording artist & an American
singer-songwriter) - I want to say to all the young women out there that there
are going to be people along the way who will try to undercut your success or
take credit for your accomplishment or your fame. But if you just focus on the
work and you don’t let those people side-track you, someday when you get where
you are going. Then if you will look around then you will know that it was you
and the people who love you who were responsible to put you there and that will
be the greatest feeling in the world.
Priyanka Chopra (Miss
World 2000 and most successful actress of Bollywood) -
The most beautiful thing
about having dreams is that it’s in your hands how big your dreams become. No
one can tell you that your dream is too small or your dream cannot come true or
your dream cannot be allowed because you are a girl or a boy or because you
look a certain way or because you come from a certain place. Don’t be afraid to
dream because they do come true. They really do.
Indra Nooyi (CEO of Pepsico) - Whatever you do, throw
yourself into it. Throw your head, heart and hands into it. I look at my job
not as a job, I look at it as a calling, as a passion. I don’t care about the
hours and I don’t care about the hardship because to me everything is a joy. So,
whatever you do, please look upon it as a calling, as a passion and not as job
or something temporary. Please help others rise as greatness comes not from a
position but from helping build the future. All of us in position of power have
an obligation to pull others up.
Selena Gomez (American
singer and actress) - My mom had me when she was 16. She worked in 4
jobs and completely dedicated her life into making mine better. So to me, she
is the definition of strong women. I wanted to be an actress and I had a casting director tell
me that I wasn’t strong enough to carry my own show. I’m sure all of you have
been told that you don’t have what it takes and you
don’t have enough people supporting you. But deep down its all you want to do.
You want to be the part of something great. The most important thing is to always have a trust in yourself.
Kiran Bedi (retired
IPS officer, social activist, former tennis player and politician) -
We were 4
girls and no boys. My father defied his own grandfather almost to the point of
disinheritance. Because he decided to educate all 4 of us. He sent us to one of
the best schools in the city.
Susmita Sen (Miss
Universe1994)
I have been blessed to be born in a family who raised me just
as a human being. They didn’t differentiate between a girl and a boy.
Age of the Aquarius is when women will rise. It
is the time when we will come to the awareness of the female strength. There is
a reason why law of the nature says to you when you become pregnant you
shouldn’t know it’s a girl or a boy. When we kill the nurturer, we create an
imbalance that we will be so sorry in generations to have done because the life
will stop to exist the way we see it. The world will change on its own. If you
change one life and if you can change one thought that having girl is having
the womb of the universe, you will then nurture the life beyond.
