Our debt to women (myself, for example)

Women! Ahhhh yes, women. Yes, Blank...women.

As my dad jokes about the Garden of Eve:
Q. What did Adam say when God created Eve?
A. "WOAH-MAN"

Truth: None of us would exist without women.

Mothers cover all lands, be they the lands of jews, negros, or drunks.

And while Jesus may have been a Jew, his cute little jewish dimple butt came from Mary's uterus. A mother gave you the son of God.

I'm not arguing for women just for their ability to be with child. However, this is a glaring aspect that humanity cannot overlook and bypass (like they did in China, HAH!). More than pumping out babies, women have justified wars, alcoholism, passion, poetry, pride, novels and nearly all other enjoyments that our neighbors, men, have enjoyed.

Would there be an Ireland, if not for the celtic goddess, Eriu, from which Ireland receives her name? (I admit, I looked that one up. But, ha!)

Furthermore, behind every great man there is a great woman. Abigail Adams, Martha Washington, and Mileva Maric to name a few.

Here are a few women in history worthy of outstanding remark:

• Mary, mother of God (Need I stress her importance? Far exceeding the entire Dutch or Irish nations.)
  
• Cleopatra (Greek pharaoh. Handled stress in her own way...maybe not the best way. But unpredictable at best, including giving oral sex for 100 Roman soldiers at a Roman banquet)
  
• Rosa Parks (black power *fist*)
• Ella Fitzgerald (black power *fist*)
• Marie Antoinette (despite Kirsten Dunst's poor portrait of this formidable woman, she was 'saintly' if not only because she was an extraordinary mother, dutiful daughter and wife in extremely difficult circumstances. Not the frivolous character we know today.)
• Matilda of Scotland (saintly and heroic Queen, the 2nd wife of King Malcom of Scotland, had her head chopped off during the French Revolution)
• Willa Cather
• Queen Isabella of Castile (She pawned her jewelry to sponsor Christopher Columbus' journey just after she and King Ferdidand kicked out the muslims/moors who occupied Spain for over 500 years. Amazing action - who would think to sponsor Columbus to see who's out there to convert??)
• Joan of Arc
• Amelia Earhart
• Saint Edith Stein (philosopher, left-wing intellectual who became a contemplative Nun during the second world war)
• Boudica, the Celtic warrior Queen (the real life Xena, the Warrior Princess)
  
• Mother Teresa
• Elanor of Aquitaine (Formidable as all put out!)
• Josephine Baker (Stunning performer. Heroic. In southern france during WWII, this amazing women traveled around Vichy republic entertaining, and stirring up resistance to the Germans, mocking them - yet nobody turned her in, despite the large price on her head. She alone stood up to the Germans. She is described as a 'comic dancer' -- her last performance lasted three days, thereafter she died peacefully in her bed at 69.)
• Dorothy Day
• Emily Dickinson
• Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan (Jokes aside...Helen Keller learned how to speak and write English, after being school by Anne Sullivan. She even became a great public speaker! Not bad for being deaf and blind)
• Hatshepsut (An able and empowering Egyptian Pharaoh)

Have you hugged your mom lately?