Mama taught me to be kind
Mama taught me to respect
Mama taught me to love
Mama taught me to fight

That's the kind of woman I want to be*

Woman,
Be strong.
This world is a tough place to be in
Not everybody can handle
the way your eyes burn bright
with hopes and dreams

Be resilient
you’ll have to fight
to get what you deserve

When everybody tells you
to stop doing things like a girl
Don’t feel shame
You’re a girl
Who does things like a girl
the way you’re supposed to

Woman,
Don’t be oil in the machinery
Be the tiny blockage
That stops the way this world works
That makes them think of what is wrong
That changes their behavior towards us

That screams for all girl’s education
Because knowledge is power
And we all deserve equal power

Against **** culture
Because our body is ours and only ours
And nobody has the right to touch us without our permission

Against glass walls and glass ceilings
Racism and discrimination

My heart is with all my women out in the world
My mama, and the other half of the global population
Soldiers and fighters
Women who will not be silenced by anything
by the shameful stares directed towards them

To be a woman is not easy
In more ways than one
But we stand tall

We stand with each other, for each other
That’s the kind of women we should aim to be