International Women’s Day
March 8, 2021
On Monday, International Women’s Day will be celebrated around the world.
I love this image and it’s caption from Ladies Home Journal in 1921. Women had just earned the right to vote the previous year in the US. Here’s the inscription…
“A very healthy curiosity, if not a real interest, concerning public affairs is growing up among women.”
You have to respect this given the time and place.
We’ve come a long way ladies! (But we still have a long way to go…)
Read this on the Mama Lisa Blog.
The world needs strong women. Women who will lift and build others, who will love and be loved. Women who live bravely, both tender and fierce. Women of indomitable will.
Amy Tenney
La Festa della Donna (Festival of Women) in Italy
March 8
Emanuela Marsura, an Italian schoolteacher, wrote to tell us that In Italy International Women’s Day is celebrated as La Festa della Donna (The Festival of Women.)
Originally, it was a recognition of the social achievements, and the political and economic conditions of women. It has its roots in the US suffrage movement over a century ago.
Nowadays, the main tradition in Italy is for men give the women in their lives a branch or sprig of yellow mimosa flowers. Sometimes the mimosa will be with other flowers like yellow daffodils or other bulbs. People also serve yellow sweets, including a mimosa cake.
Read about La Festa della Donna on the Mama Lisa Blog here.
Women are like teabags. We don’t know our true strength until we are in hot water.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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