Freedom

I opened a book Sarah has had on the desk for a few weeks now called "Meditations for women who do too much" by Anne Wilson Schaef. I quickly realized you are supposed to read one a day as they are dated. So I flipped to today's date and read exactly what I needed to read today...

Sisterhood, like female friendship, has at its core the affirmation of freedom. - Mary Dayl

For women to truly be friends, we have to shed the suspicious competitiveness toward one another that we have been trained into. We have to move beyond seeing other women as competitors for the "goodies". We have to be open to the possibility that because we are women we have mutual concerns and experiences that we need to share. To do this, we have to be willing to move beyond our training and education for separateness, to leap the chasm and become free to be ourselves with one another.

Once we have made the leap, we find richness and depth in our female friendships that simply is not possible with men. We find ourselves saying again and again, "I know," "I know,". It is in the "affirming our freedom" from old brainwashing that we move into friendship and sisterhood.

THOUGH I HAVE been told otherwise, I need friends who are women.


Hmmm, I seem to like quotes lately so here is one more before I depart... "If ever I had a good mind, it has been lost in the shuffle. I seem to have stagnated, and I am aware that I am not using any capacity I have to the fullest." - Anyonymous -