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VISION STATEMENT - Gather the Women

Beginning the week of March 3-8, 2003, linked globally by our interactive website, we are inviting women to demonstrate their courage to risk leaving old conformities by joining with millions of others throughout the world in thousands of unique events celebrating woman's true worth, expressing shared concern for our human family, and creating and supporting actions that will enable humanity to live together in a world based on life-affirming values.

Call the women together. Perhaps it is through the women that we will find peace.
Let us gather together for a day.
Let us break bread, share our stories, our hearts,
and our visions for peace.
Let us hold the vision until it becomes a reality.
—Rama Vernon

Ex-President Jimmy Carter spoke from his wisdom at his Nobel Peace Prize ceremony telling us that "War is always evil, it is never good".

Why do we stay silent when politicians are leading us to war? Do we believe in war, or that starting a war is ever right or necessary? If not why be silent? You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake. —Jeanette Rankin (the first woman elected to the U.S. Congress)

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. — Mother Teresa

The world you desire can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.
—Ayn Rand, Russian-born American Author

There is a collective force rising up on the earth today, an energy of the reborn feminine...This is a time of monumental shift, from the male dominance of human consciousness back to a balanced relationship between masculine and feminine. —Marianne Williamson, A Woman's Worth

Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch—what make you go beyond the norm. —Cicely Tyson

What are the words you do not yet have? What do you need to say?...for it is not difference which immobilizes us, but silence. And there are so many silences to be broken. —Audre Lorde

Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music. — Angela Monet

If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities. We must weave a social fabric in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place. Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. — Margaret Mead

We say the time of waiting is over.
We say the silence has been broken.
We say there can be no forgetting now.
We say
LISTEN
We are the bones
of your grandmother's grandmothers.
We have returned now.
We say you cannot forget us now
We say we are with you
And you are us.
—Patricia Reis, The Ancient Ones

The women of today are the thoughts of their mothers and grandmothers, embodied, and made alive. They are active, capable, determined and bound to win. They have one thousand generations back of them ... Millions of women, dead and gone are speaking through us today. — Matilda Joslyn Gage from National Citizen and Ballot Box- 1889...a newspaper she founded and edited.