Welcome to the Women's Forum. Here we feature women who have overcome great challenges and gone on to succeed or women who are doing work to benefit our world. Each and everyone of us has a story to tell. We connect, love, support and are supported by sharing ourselves with others. Life is full of challenges which we must look at as opportunities to grow, learn and transform our lives. By hearing the stories of others, we are inspired, encouraged, motivated and touched. We realize we are not alone; nor are we unique or different from anyone else. You will find we have many things in common.
Perhaps YOU WOULD LIKE TO SHARE YOUR STORY. Please email me if you are interested in being featured or know someone who should be featured.
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People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives--
J. Michael Straczynski
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
Woodrow Wilson
28th President of the United States
When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with our friends or family, we blame the other person. But if we know how to take care of them, they will grow well, like the lettuce. Blaming has no positive effect at all, nor does trying to persuade using reason and argument. That is my experience. No blame, no reasoning, no argument, just understanding. If you understand, and you show that you understand, you can love, and the situation will change."
Thich Nhat Hanh
Often people attempt to live their lives backwards: they try to have more things or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then, do what you need to do, in order to have what you want-- Margaret Young
We have forgotten who we are
We have lost our sense of wonder and connectedness
we have degraded the earth and our fellow creatures,
