“You can always tell who the strong women are. They are the ones you see building one another up, instead of tearing each other down.”
“Women putting other women down is like telling the world that you are more worried about your competition than your own progress.”
“The problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.” ~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
As women, we’ve all been called it at one time or another. Probably more often that we can count. We probably remember the very first time we were called that…all the way back in our elementary school days. The dreaded ‘B’ word…..
Last weekend I had the opportunity to speak to a group of teen girls. I was nervous, anxious leading up to it because I had been asked to speak on a topic I’ve never done before ~ Self Worth. I even told the organizer that I may not be right for this.
Women can have it all right? Fulfilling life at home with kids and family and great career without being held back or penalized. I mean it’s 2018, so of course this is a given…right?