Women

I'm wearing my blue dress tonight -- sorry!

As always, a pleasure to read one of your articles.
The discussion on Oprah today was whether working outside the home while raising children were a viable option. CHOICE is the only option. Whatever works for those involved.
I am glad that the women in your family were able to choose for themselves the paths they took (albeit belatedly). Your mother must have been quite the role model.

I grew up with quite the same. Not sisters, but a grandmother and mother who were yrs ahead of what their generations thought they should be. To me a woman president of anything, including our country is no big deal. Should of happened 20 yrs ago.

Just out of curiosity, which is not necessarily a good reason; I would love to see a Clinton/Obama run for the presidency. If only for 4 yrs, it would finally put to rest the doubt that now exists in our society as to the competency of the two biggest minorities (as far as rights and respect are concerned) in our country.

2008 is going to be a very scary and interesting yr in this country's history, as will the following 4 yrs....Let's hope the American public makes the right decision!!

By the way Reid, how's the slopes looking out there in Breckenridge??...LOL...

I really enjoyed reading your article!

It may take another million years for the urge to destroy to be supplanted by the desire to create. A shortcut may be the presence of more women in leadership roles, for as Garou sings: 'plus la femme fait la politique, plus le monde est pacifique'.

By the way did you notice Mister Sourpuss Grumpyface next to speaker Pelosi.

Having worked with women in the financial services industry my entire career, I can tell you that without exception, they are every bit as capable as men, and sometimes more so. However, I have to say that their emotions, both good and bad, do hamper them. From crying over seemingly nothing to viciously avenging themselves.

I'm glad that women are no longer stuck being barefoot & pregnant (though, make no mistake -- many wish that they could sidestep the pressure to not be that). However, power corrupts them in far different (and potentially more dangerous) ways than men, and that's why I won't be voting for Hillary.

I didn't mention my granmother Mary Ellen Poteat Cornwell, who was the matriarch of the family. Her (plantation owner/ gold miner) father attempted to barter her off to a rich carpet bagger in her ante-bellum teen years. (she died at 101). She was to be the price to restore his fortunes after the war.

She refused and you have me.

John Porter,

You just don't get it.

It's tragically humorous to watch someone throw themselves on the grenade of their biases. By the way. some of my best friends are.................!

Here comes the rain-man. I, too, am married to a highly successful woman. She holds undergrad degrees in chemistry and microbiology, graduated at the top of her law class, and in the nemesis of plaintiff's attorneys nationwide. My daughter is following similar tracks having graduated at the very top of her high school class, earned a full scholastic scholarship, and is one her way to a top-tier consulting firm in her field. My Mom was not so lucky as to have been afforded a broad and deep classroom education beyond high school, but she helped pave the way for me to do so. Mom is among the smarter women I know, having spent 76 years learning from every book and life experience available to her.

Now for the rain. These three women are sickened by the image bestowed upon women by the likes of Hillary, Nancy, and Barbara. When Nancy proclaims that the "way is now open to all women"……what an insult to those who thought they had already arrived.

The Washington Zoo is wide open folks. No tickets required. Guess I missed the party that was thrown when a black woman from Alabama was named Secretary of State for a world super-power. Oops! Guess she was associated with the wrong party and that achievement didn't count!!!

"A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always count on the support of Paul."…..unknown

Don,

I find no fault in your comments. I was expressing the sentiment that these women are ho-hum to me "because" of the women who will get no recognition. It is the women who have toiled in the trenches that I was speaking to.

I regret that my sentiment didn't come through.

I'm not biased at all, Doc. My mother's mother was the toughest person I have ever known. She raised 13 kids mostly by herself on a farm in OK while her husband was running moonshine during the depression.

I just call 'em as I see 'em. If I had seen it once or twice over the last 17 years, I wouldn't have commented. Having seen it every single day over those years, I feel pretty comfortable in my take.

John,

If I offended I apologize. I found a contradiction between your apparent reverence for our strong women and your comments on their emotionality. That is an argument often used to discount them. At this point in my life I'm for more emotions and less rationality. That's my bias.

Thank you Dr. Cornwell. This was a wonderful article that made me smile. My Grandmother was the strongest women I have ever known. She was a vision of strength, character and grace. A vision I strive to mirror. I am raising 2 daughters myself that I hope find in me the same essence I found in her.

Natalie:
I hope your moniker "I hate my job" is not representative of reality in your life. The first step to individual freedom is acknolwedgement of individual choice. If indeed you hate your job, quit......but only after you find one you really enjoy...and one that also provides for self-sufficiency.

Reid:
I think your points were well made. I just wanted to comment on the Queens of Fantasy Land parading around in Congress last evening. BTW...such QFL's and KFL's are not political party specific.

Thank you, Dr. Cornwell, for this article.

And Don - please stop being so emotional!

Georg Simmel, the sociologist, asserts that dyads are inherently unstable and polarized. Insert a third element and counter-intuitively they get more stable and less polarized. This is an empirical argument for more parties.

The most powerful person in the Senate is Joe Lieberman, an independant.

Women are indeed wonderful, but rarely recognise it for themselves. They're usually too busy to find their own trumpet, let alone find the time to blow it! Mostly, they just do what they do and get on with life. Perhaps certain men could learn a lesson or two from this?

Thanks, a joy to read and good to see ordinary women acknowledged.

A touching tribute to women, Reid. Women have been strong since Eve. She raised men that became leaders, as have all the women following her. Not all men have become leaders, but almost all men have been raised by women.


I, personally, believe a woman could handle the Presidency. However, the problem I have with this is the way the rest of the world looks at the female. Condelezza Rice was unable to make any headway on her visit to the Middle East. It was not because she was ignorant or ungracious but simply because she was a woman. These countries, which are challenging our freedoms, believe women are lower than their cattle. I just do not believe that a woman holding Executive powers will make inroads into these cultures. The ability is not in question here, IMO the time is not right. The world is not ready to accept a female in such a high position.

These countries, which are challenging our freedoms, believe women are lower than their cattle. I just do not believe that a woman holding Executive powers will make inroads into these cultures. The ability is not in question here, IMO the time is not right.
June:
What needs to occur IYO to make the time right? What if Rosa Parker had waited for the time to be right? What about Margaret Thatcher? A woman leader in the USA might give more respect to women worldwide.

Very nice celebration of the strong, intelligent women in some of our families and how they shaped and influenced us. Yes they had a very hard time, the ones who entered the trenches of commerce, law, science, early, with no laws to prevent obvious bias and discrimination, and many succeeded anyway.

Hilary is strong and capable, but she is a murderer - although she has never bloodied her own hands. I won't vote for her because it would be tatamount to signing my own death warrant.

When we have helped freedom win the war in the middle-east is when we can put anyone we want into office and no one will gain-say us because THEY will have choices too.

- Jeanjaz