My entire life I was told little girls were made to be seen and not heard.
I was told women were meant to get married, serve a man, bear his children, and obey him.
I want to tell you that’s not true. Little girls are not made to be ***** receptacles and incubators; they were not made to be live in cooks or maids. Little girls were made to prove all the men in their lives wrong.
Little girls are made to pave the way for all the other little girls who’ll come after them so no little girls have to hear that their dreams are not valid because they were born with the disadvantage of being a woman in a man’s world.
Now when I speak I shout, when a man interrupts me I speak over him. When a man tries to tell me what I can do with my body, I speak out and I stop him.
I am not a silent force; I am not going to be a housewife simply because my father says women aren’t strong enough to be in the workforce.
I’m done being silent, I’m done being pushed aside, and when I get my first pay stub I’m going to take it to my father and say, “Look what you've caused.”