“Imagine a woman who believes it is right and good she is woman.
A
woman who honors her experience and tells her stories.
Who refuses to
carry the sins of others within her body and life.
Imagine a woman who has acknowledged the past’s influence on the
present.
A woman who has walked through her past.
Who has healed into the
present.
Imagine a woman in love with her own body.
A woman who believes her
body is enough, just as it is.
Who celebrates her body’s rhythms and
cycles as an exquisite resource.
Imagine a woman who embraces her sexuality as her own.
A woman who
delights in pleasuring herself.
Who experiences her erotic sensations
without shame or guilt.
Imagine a woman who honors the body of Goddess in her changing body.
A
woman who celebrates the accumulation of her years and her wisdom.
Who
refuses to use her precious life-energy disguising the changes in her
body and life.
Imagine a woman who has access to the full range of human emotion.
A
woman who expresses her feelings clearly and directly.
Who allows them to
pass through her as gracefully as a breath.
Imagine a woman who tells the truth.
A woman who trusts her experience
of the world and expresses it.
Who refuses to defer to the thoughts,
perceptions, and responses of others.
Imagine a woman who follows her creative impulses.
A woman who
produces original creations.
Who refuses to color inside someone else’s
lines.
Imagine a woman who names her own gods.
A woman who imagines the
divine in her image and likeness.
Who designs a personal spirituality to
inform her daily life.
Imagine a woman who refuses to surrender to gods, gurus, and higher
powers.
A woman who has descended into her own inner life.
Who asserts her
will in harmony with its impulses and instincts.
Imagine a woman who is interested in her own life.
A woman who
embraces her life as teacher, healer, and challenger.
Who is grateful for
the ordinary moments of beauty and grace.
Imagine a woman who authors her own life.
A woman who trusts her inner
sense of what is right for her.
Who refuses to twist her life out of
shape to meet the expectations of others.
Imagine a woman who participates in her own life.
A woman who meets
each challenge with creativity.
Who takes action on her own behalf with
clarity and strength.
Imagine a woman who has crafted a fully formed solitude.
A woman who
is available to herself.
Who chooses friends and lovers with the capacity
to respect her solitude.
Imagine a woman who refuses to diminish her life so others will feel
better.
A woman who brings the fullness of her years, experience, and
wisdom into each relationship.
Who expects others to be challenged and
blessed by her presence in their lives.
Imagine a woman who assumes equality in her relationships.
A woman who
no longer believes she is inferior to men and in need of their
salvation.
Who has taken her rightful place beside them in the human
community.
Imagine a woman who refuses to use her precious life-energy managing
crisis and conflict.
A woman whose relationships deepen in satisfaction
and contentment without depleting her.
Who chooses friends and lovers
with the necessary skills to navigate through the challenges of life.
Imagine a woman who values the women in her life.
A woman who sits in
circles of women.
Who is reminded of the truth about herself when she
forgets.
Imagine a woman who has relinquished the desire for intellectual
safety and approval.
A woman who makes a powerful statement with every
word she speaks, every action she takes.
Who asserts to herself the right
to reorder the world.
Imagine a woman who has grown in knowledge and love of herself.
A
woman who has vowed faithfulness to her own life and capacities.
Who
remains loyal to herself. Regardless.
Imagine yourself as this woman.”
I DO!
