I Am Strong - I Am Invincible

Today is International Women's Day.

Let us celebrate women the world over for our contributions to family, business & commerce, politics, the literary world, theatre, medicine, to mothers, daughters, aunts, nieces, grandmothers, to girlfriends and to ourselves.

But let us not for one moment forget the women of this world who suffer.

In the Mexican cities of Ciudad Juarez and Chihuahua 400 young women have been brutally murdered since 1993, 56 since 2004, 152 were the victims of sexual assault prior to their murders and more than half of these victims were women and girls between the ages of 13 and 22.

In Canada one half of women over the age of 16 have experienced one incident of abuse.

In South Africa arguments rage over whether an adult rape is committed every 36 seconds, every 11 seconds or every four seconds - depending on how police records are interpreted. A woman in South Africa is killed by her spouse on average every six days.

Let us take a moment to think of all our sisters the world over.

Are they struggling in abusive relationships?
Are they at this moment being raped, murdered, sold into prostitution?
Are they successful doctors, lawyers, accountants, are they mothers, daughters, grandmothers?

Let's enjoy our womanhood remembering that all famous men had a mother.

Only women can experience the joy of carrying a life within a womb and birthing that life, nurturing a child at her breast, or experiencing the joy of being the mother of a President, a prophet, a ground breaking scientist, Jesus, Gandhi, Mandela, Martin Luther King. Who else but a woman can feel that pride in knowing that she nurtured that life.


Here's to women the world over today.

We are beautiful, we are strong and we can accomplish anything!


Read the words of this song sung in the 70's which became the chant for many woman as they rose up and stood together for equality.


I am woman, hear me roar
In numbers too big to ignore
And I know too much to go back an' pretend'
Cause I've heard it all before
And I've been down there on the floor
No one's ever gonna keep me down again

Oh yes, I am wise
But it's wisdom born of pain
Yes, I've paid the price
But look how much I gained
If I have to I can do anything

I am strong
I am invincible
I am woman

You can bend but never break me'
Cause it only serves to make me
More determined to achieve my final goal
And I come back even stronger
Not a novice any longer'
Cause you've deepened the conviction in my soul

Oh, yes, I am wise
But it's wisdom born of pain
Yes, I've paid the price
But look how much I gained
If I have to I can face anything

I am strong
I am invincible
I am woman

I am woman watch me grow
See me standing toe to toe
As I spread my lovin' arms across the land
But I'm still an embryo
With a long, long way to go
Until I make my brother understand

Oh, yes, I am wise
But it's wisdom born of pain
Yes, I've paid the price
But look how much I gained
If I have to I can face anything

I am strong
I am invincible
I am woman










Let us reach out in unity to our sisters across the world today bringing us together as a force to be reckoned with!