Shared Wisdom: Women’s Strength

Be A Queen

(Part of the commencement address made by Oprah Winfrey to the graduates of all-female Spelman College in 1993.)

Be a queen.  Dare to be different.  Be a pioneer.  Be a leader.  Be the kind of woman who in the face of adversity will continue to embrace life and walk fearlessly toward your challenge.  Take it on!  Be a truth seeker and rule your domain, whatever it is – your home, your office, your family – with a loving heart.

Be a queen.  Be tender.  Continue to give birth to new ideas and rejoice in your womanhood…………..  My prayer is that we will stop wasting time by being mundane and mediocre………. We are daughters of God – here to teach the world how to love.

It doesn’t matter what you’ve been through, where you come from, who your parents are – nor your social or economic status.  None of that matters.  What matters is how you choose to love, how you choose to express that love through your work, through your family, through what you have to give the world.

Be a queen.  Own your power and your glory!

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I Will Be Still And Steady

If, like a Cherokee warrior, I can look at the new year as an opportunity to stand on new ground, then strength and courage are on my side.  I will remember that things do work out, bodies do heal, relationships mend – not because I said it, but because I believe it.

But it is time to make things right, to stay on the path.  As water runs fresh and free from the woodland spring, so new life and meaning will bubble up from my own inner source.  I will be still and steady, because there is nothing to be gained by showing fear in a chaotic world.

Joyce Sequichie Hifler