Sitting here in my favorite T-shirt and soft drawstring pants, I have been thinking alot about my responsibilities to the world and especially to young girls.

I had the privilage of growing up in an era of enlightenment. A time when being a women was something we could be proud of.

There was an encouragement of girls, they should be sweet, but also can l be president someday. Our foremothers had fought for equal rights and the right to vote. They believed they had secured that future for us.

This push was in the hope of giving their daughters and grandaughters better lives, helping to get to a point where systematic abuse of women could be eradicated. Where women were not forced to be slaves to men.

I realized after watching a social media post yesterday where a politian in Florida referred to women as vessels and where another said we should not be able to vote, that is now time we as the older generation of women stand firm and be resilient.

We will not go back, we will not allow them to enslave us. We are not and never have been property. Reminding them that without a women, they would not exist.

I am astonished that at this time in my life, and in the year 2025, that this is where we need to make a stand. But I will, for my nieces and all young women to have the freedom of choice I had.