I was listening to a interview with the founder of the infamous Vagina Monologues Eve Ensler on Democracy Now and she was discussing the motivation for her new book titled “I am an emotional creature” she went on to say that throughout her travels across the world and all the women she has met she comes to the conclusion that the singular verb that has been used to clump up all women’s worth regardless of their unique struggles is ultimately tied to the verb “PLEASE”. We as women are always intertwined with the need to please; whether it is sexually, domestically, mentally, or physically. It persists as an issue. The dynamics of everything we learn from the day we are born to the day we pass is that we have a general model and role of what it is that we are supposed to be.

Then Ms. Ensler made a comment that caught my attention. “What if that verb was changed? What if the verb that symbolizes women was altered to be; to change, to create, to resist, to question?” I thought that this was a valid point. Why are we designated to please? In my eyes this is the same as to follow, to be obedient, to be submissive, and largely associated to be powerless.

I believe that women have the ability to be as beautifully dynamic and represent the largest possibility of roles.

Whether women stay at home and PROVIDE

Or continue in the workforce and CHALLENGE

Or LOVE

Or STRUGGLE

We do not have to represent a second-class status.

Women are largely associated with negative connotations and its time that we push back and take pride in exercising our freedom to choose who we are.

We have to regain OUR POWER!