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Women Who Help Each Other
“Women helped each other in ways small and large every day, without thinking, and that was what kept them going even when the world came up with new and exciting ways to crush them.” ~Alyssa Cole, Let Us Dream
One morning, I woke up to a post on Facebook written by a woman in her early 30’s. She is a friend of one of my daughters and I have watched her grow professionally and personally over the last decade. She is smart, passionate, insightful and generous. She is a goddess warrior, a woman with a voice. Beautiful inside and out.
Her post was written in gratitude to her women friends on Thanksgiving.
She wrote:
My entire life, wherever I go, I’ve always found very intense, deep, and long-lasting friendships with other women. Though I don’t love all of Roxanne Gay’s “How to be Friends with Another Woman” essay and admit that I’m sad these lists even have to exist (though I think we’re needing them less and less, slowly but surely) I’d like to highlight the ones that stood out to me and thank some of the most amazing women in my life for not needing these reminders.
(some of the points from the essay by Roxane Gay are listed at the end of this post.)
I burst into tears when I read her words. My intention when I started Heal My Voice was to create a space for women to heal…
