It is time ladies to come together and rise above the wounded parts of living in a patriarchal society. The one that has repressed, shamed, and enraged so many a woman, leaving a legacy of hurt women living with a closed heart. Now is the time to rise up and shine together. Recently, I was reading about the civil war in Liberia that raged for nearly fifteen years, before ending by the efforts of the women in the country who said, “no more.” They organized together crossing religious boundaries, and held “sex strikes” to motivate the men to stop the war. Reading about this reminded me of a play by Aristophanes, an ancient Greek philosopher, who wrote one of the only women stories of power from that time. The play was about the wives of ancient Greece stopping war by not sleeping with their husbands. Here we are thousands of […]
