#brave women

[house-of-maximoff]

[beccawise7]

To all the resilient women out there, putting on a brave face in the midst of difficult, sometimes impossible circumstances.

I see you. You are not alone.

Take care of yourself and remember who you are. ~beccawise7💜🖤

[ritish16]

Veera Kanye

[importantwomensbirthdays]

Freddie Oversteegen

Freddie Oversteegen was born in 1925 in Schoten, Netherlands. During World War II, Oversteegen joined the Dutch resistance at the age of 14. Along with her sister and another resistance member, she would lure German soldiers into the woods to kill them. They would also help to shelter Jews, gay people, and others who were persecuted by the Nazis. Oversteegen had a particular talent for following targets and keeping watch during missions. In 2014, she received the Dutch Mobilization War Cross in recognition of her work with the resistance.

Freddie Oversteegen died in 2018 at the age of 92.

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[hebrewbyinbal]

Another Shabbat.

I'm sitting here with a heart that feels like it's being pulled in a thousand directions, waiting for tomorrow.

Four more women are set to be released from captivity.

Four lives that have been through unthinkable darkness.

I'm anxious, excited, and fearful all at once.

Will it go as planned? Will they come back safe? Will they be okay?

I can’t stop hoping that they’ll return in the best state one can after enduring so much — and that tomorrow is the beginning of their long journey toward healing.

To these women I’ve never met but feel deeply for — you are not alone.

You are in the hearts of so many, including mine, waiting and hoping for you to come home.

[littlebydigital]

🎤 

“God is something that needs rescuing from religion.”

To the absolute legend,

A woman whose brave prescience never wavered against abuse 

Hope you find all the peace that life stole from you.

Rest easy, Sinead O’Connor.

Shuhada Sadaqat, Inna Iillahi wa inna alayhi rajioon 🤲🏽

You will never ever be forgotten. 

[rosetyler42]

Had to draw Ericka in her action gear covered in dirt with messy hair and Drac staring at her with heart-eyes. XD He loves his deadly little lion fish. X3

@lovelylivelyv @black-ak9 @deathfangirl9 @serial-serializednovelreader @hotelt-resurrection @ssleeping-in-a-coffin @heartsong1994 @wingingfromthezing @ebevkisk @kittyball23

[photo-art-lady]

Fine Art Photography - Portrait Of A Female Warrior With Sword And Armor By Laura Sheridan

[an-elveinthesky]

I learned early

But accepted late,

A woman is praised to be convinient, Never brave.

Akshita

[haggishlyhagging]

Yet, despite [Marguerite Porète’s] death as a heretic, and even though the Inquisition declared that to retain a copy of her book made one subject to excommunication, the Miroir was widely read and cherished in succeeding centuries. One copy of the original in French was saved, but there were five medieval translations (two Latin, two Italian and one Middle English) in which the book survived. For a time, it was even ascribed to the celebrated male mystic Ruysbroeck, whose orthodoxy was unquestioned. Porète's work was always more acceptable than her person and her attitude toward authority. Other rebellious women affiliated with social movements considered heretical or revolutionary were savagely persecuted for such affiliation, but Porète represents a more solitary figure. Like Joan of Arc, and, much later, the Quaker Mary Dyer, she followed her inner voice and refused to cooperate with Church or state authority. The fact that, after a year and a half in jail, she remained silent during her trial and refused to obey all orders asking her to renounce and abandon her own writings makes her a heroic figure, braver than Galileo and many others, better known and more celebrated. Galileo, after recanting his theories under pressure from the Inquisition, is said to have stated on his deathbed, "And yet it [the earth] moves. . . ." Marguerite Porète, never recanting, anticipated her martyred death and, after listing all those who would say that she was wrong, defied the future with her proud assertion: "I am not [wrong]."

-Gerda Lerner, The Creation of Feminist Consciousness

[beccawise7]

Wednesday Wisdom!! 💜🖤💜🖤

Every shape. Every size. Every accent.

Every smile.Every curvy woman.Every thin woman.

Every color eyes. Every color hair. Every straight-haired woman. Every curly-haired woman.

There is nothing more beautiful than YOU, just as you are.

Stop limiting "real" women to one thing! We come in ALL shapes, sizes, colors, personalities and every one of us is beautiful.

Never forget it!

~beccawise7💜🖤

[adgp35]

The Capture of the Onboard Thief 1

The big reveal by the triumphant air stewardess.

Flight Attendant Claire Rawlinson, as she pulls the sliding galley door open: “And here he is! The onboard thief captured and unmasked!”

Handcuffed Thief Barney: “B***h!”

Claire [laughing]: “He is so unhappy at being caught. And very rude!”

Sources: dreamstime and iStock by GettyImages

[importantwomensbirthdays]

Shyima Hall

Author and activist Shyima Hall was born in 1989 in Alexandria, Egypt. At eight years old, Hall was sold into slavery, and her captors smuggled her into the United States when she was 10. She slept in a windowless storage room, and was denied education and medical care. Hall was rescued in 2002 at the age of 13. She has spoken to groups throughout the country about fighting human trafficking. In 2014, Hall published, Hidden Girl, a book about her experience as a trafficking victim.

[heartandlead95]

“A woman's vengeful fury is directly proportional to the intensity of her stares as she is intent on taking down men who have dared to challenge her”

[hebrewbyinbal]

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I think about Amit Soussana, and the women who are still there as well as those who came back, every day.

Amit Soussana was a lawyer, and the first time I saw her on video was in an unbelievable video from Oct 7 where 8 armed men! are dragging her to G@za as she is fighting them with strength and courage that I cannot even comprehend, beating her to stop fighting, all the while - she is not even fully dressed!

Next, I see her after her return from being in captivity, starting to talk anywhere for the release of the other kidnapped that are still there.

And now, she came out - with the same unimaginable bravery - speaking of the sexu@l buse she went through, and I feel that she is doing that for the women left behind who are still going through the same, or worse, and for the other women who came back and are incapable of sharing what was done to them by H@mas.

She took all that upon herself, and shared the horrible things done to her with the world.

Words cannot express the respect I have for this woman, and the heartbreak I feel for her. A beautiful brave soul whose life was broken by pure evil and barbaric people who do not deserve to even be mentioned.

לא נשכח ולא נסלח

lo neesh-'kakh ve-'lo nees-'lakh

We won't forget, and we won't forgive

I can promise you that.

[photo-art-lady]

Fine Art Photography - Portrait Of A Medieval Female Warrior With Sword And Armor By Laura Sheridan