The woman who made all the difference in your life? The woman who quietly or more influenced you? On this last Thursday of Women’s History Month 2023, join in Celebrating Women Who Tell Our Stories—Tell us your story!
They are there in your life. The strong, memorable, influential, life-changing, nurturing women. They are family, friend, well-known, quietly known, that once-in-a lifetime stranger, a teacher, coach, director, minister, artist, neighbor, writer, character in a book and more. They are not often a famous woman but the woman who made a difference.
For some it may be your grandmother, a truly nurturing woman who handed down her recipe for prize winning birthday cake—only to you! She taught you how to nurture your own family and yourself and be a prize-winning baker.
For another it may be the person who secretly wrote poetry and read your early work and gave you the confidence to become a poet yourself.
For someone else, it could be the groundbreaking work by that unknown woman research scientist catapulted into the limelight, giving you the courage to pursue your dream to be a scientist in a field never populated by women before.
Or it could be that music teacher who, when you were young, told you, your voice is a gift; work hard and share its beauty with the world. You are a singer.
Or your coach who said: Yes, you can! You are an athlete. Go for it. So, you believed in yourself.
Maybe it was simply watching the quiet determination of a friend, who always wanted an education, and never had the chance, who found a way later in her life to pursue her dream and graduate from college. She didn’t know it, but she was your role model.
Perhaps it was someone you met only once—but who really listened to you when you told them you wanted to design fabric—and by telling them you made it more real. And now, as your first design is being made—you remember her.
Could it be your best friend, who no matter what, has always been there for you—along the whole roller coaster of life? She taught you about loyalty.
So, who is she? Share your story in the comments as we celebrate the women who have changed our lives—those women who help us tell our stories . Daria D’Arienzo, Meekins Archivist. #throwbackthursday
Posted to Facebook 3/30/2023
