Declaration of American Women
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(The President's Interagency Council on
Women National Plan of Action, Texas, 1977)
We are here to move history forward.
We are women from every State and Territory in the Nation.
We are women of different ages, beliefs and lifestyles.
We are women of many economic, social, political, racial, ethnic, cultural, educational and religious backgrounds.
We are married, single, widowed and divorced.
We are mothers and daughters.
We are sisters.
We speak in varied accents and languages but we share the common language and experience of American women who throughout our Nation's life have been denied the opportunities, rights, privileges and responsibilities accorded to men.
For the first time in the more than 200 years of our democracy, we are gathered in a National Women's Conference, charged under Federal law to assess the status of women in our country, to measure the progress we have made, to identify the barriers that prevent us from participating fully and
equally in all aspects of national life, and to make recommendations to the President and to the Congress for means by which such barriers can be removed.
We recognize the positive changes that have occurred in the lives of women since the founding of our nation. In more than a century of struggle from Seneca Falls 1848 to Houston 1977, we have progressed from being non-persons and slaves whose work and achievements were unrecognized,
whose needs were ignored, and whose rights were suppressed to being citizens with freedoms and aspirations of which our ancestors could only dream.
We can vote and own property. We work in the home, in our communities and in every occupation. We are 40 percent of the labor force. We are in the arts, sciences, professions and politics. We raise children, govern States, head businesses and institutions, climb mountains, explore the ocean depths and
reach toward the moon.
Our lives no longer end with the childbearing years. Our lifespan has increased to more than 75 years. We have become a majority of the population, 51.3 percent, and by the 21st Century, we shall be an even larger majority.
But despite some gains made in the past 200 years, our dream of equality is still withheld from us and millions of women still face a daily reality of discrimination, limited opportunities and economic hardship.
Man-made barriers, laws, social customs and prejudices continue to keep a majority of women in an inferior position without full control of our lives and bodies.
The rest: https://www.colorado.edu/AmStudies/lewis/2010/declare.htm
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Women birthed this country. Think about that. Without us you would not exist. We fed and nurtured a nation. We really do not need men to tell us what is best for us in their condescending way. Wake up.
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How are ya sweetie. 
Thanks~
You are welcome. 
Truth, brer.
Thank you radical noodle.
... know it all posts with veiled insults, negging, condescending put-downs and backhanded "compliments". The LAST line in your post (just above) sums it up perfectly. Mainly the last four words. That's the best advice you could have given. Unfortunately, it may take EIGHT to TWELVE years before it finally sinks-in... so we just keep repeating ourselves and putting up with the same disrespect from the same people.
Thank you so much. Makes me nuts that we have to keep repeating ourselves, but repeat we will until someone listens.
