In front of an Anti-Bush crowd, I had my first feminist speech

[AmandaRuth]

Today, on the date of Bush's inauguration, I made a speech in front of hundreds of people. I knew naught that I would be going up there, so I had no time to prepare other than the 15 minuets I was waiting in line.

Here's what I said:

"My name is *Insert my name here*, and I represent Glacier Middle School.
I would like to remind you of Bob Dylan's song, The Times They Are A-Changin'. In it, he says: Come writers and critics who prophecies with your pen. I am a junior writer, and I do not prophecies with my pen nor do I want to. But others do, like Margaret Atewood. She wrote the Handmaidens tale, a story about what would happen if God and government were the same, God and government are becoming the same, and I say, if women loose freedom of their bodies and their wombs, then they have lost their freedom of country, and children."

No so bad for a middle schooler.

MiniAmandaRuth

[BurtWorm]

1. Not bad at all!

:toast:

(Toasting you with ginger ale.)

[fleabert]

2. Not bad at all! Congrats!

thank you on behalf of us older ladies!

[clovis29]

3. pretty doggone good. You should feel great about telling us about it.

You rock!

[OldLeftieLawyer]

4. If you were my daughter,

I'd be so damn proud of the job I'd done raising you, I'd just float away.

Kudos to you, Mini. Not bad for a middle schooler, indeed. That's a speech any adult would be proud to call his or her own.

You're not a junior writer anymore, my dear. Take it from a published novelist (me): you're a pro.

:::: wild applause :::::