1/ The story of Semiramis was so incredible (to men) that later historians decided she must be a myth. She wasn't. Or, if she was, she the model was the very real: Shammuramat, regent of Assyria, 811 BC.
#difficultwomen #trailblazingwomen #historyofwomen
Us #difficultwomen won’t be shutting up for 3%
Just sayin’
That tired voice asking "why did I agree to this again?" You know it well. The standard advice isn't wrong. The problem is timing.
Read more in this week's Substack article (published on Tuesday).
Link follows in comments.
#difficultwomen #breakingfree #patterninterrupt
What breaks a lifetime pattern of self-sacrifice are not epiphanies or revelations. They're great motivators but fizzle out fast.
4 things the women who actually changed have in common.
#difficultwomen #breakingfree #selfpriority
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1/ Self-priority isn't the same thing as pampering yourself.
It's prioritizing your needs, wants, and desires. And proactively getting them met.
All conditioned out of you.
#difficultwomen #selfpriority #breakingfree
1/ Most boundary advice aims at the wrong target. How to get them to respect your limits. How to make them stop asking. Directed entirely at other people.
#difficultwomen #boundaries
1/ You can't out-think a conditioned habit, any habit actually, in real time.
Habits work at the subconscious level which is way, way, way faster than conscious thought.
#difficultwomen #breakingfree #patterninterrupt
Automatic self-sacrifice doesn't feel like a choice. You've already said yes before you notice you did.
Learn to recognize the signals your body sends before the pattern completes.
#difficultwomen #breakingfree #selfpriority
Shaming yourself when you slip-up? Don't.
Laugh.
Laugh at your slip-ups. It takes away everybody's ammunition (including yours) and helps you go again tomorrow.
Happy Let's Laugh Day, you delightfully contradictory, self-aware woman.
#difficultwomen
You were going to speak up more.
Someone talked over you.
You waited, then rephrased your point as a question so it wouldn't seem like a challenge.
We've all done this. Including the woman writing it.
Yes, including me. Absolutely, including me.
I still laugh at it.
#difficultwomen
Your word for this year was 'no.'
You've said it four times.
You've also said 'of course, happy to!' approximately forty times, with a smile.
Not defeat. Only how deep the wiring goes.
Not defeat. Only how deep the wiring goes.
Not defeat. Laugh it off. And keep at it.
#difficultwomen
You resolved to stop apologizing for what doesn't need an apology.
You've said sorry twice already since opening your eyes. (And it's only an hour later.)
Your resolution is real. The reflex older.
Both are true. Give yourself some grace. Laugh at it.
#difficultwomen
Happy Let's Laugh Day.
For the woman who genuinely does not care what people think, who also spent 20 minutes deciding if that text was too blunt.
You're not alone. We all do this. All of us.
Keep at it. Most of all: keep laughing at slip-ups. It helps to keep at it.
#difficultwomen
Here it is again, the great service that #DifficultWomen and #WhistleBlowers bring to their communities.
#auspol
The wicked little secret to reclaiming lots of time and why spending them on frivolous joy spreads the benefits wide and far.
Enjoy! (link coming up in comments)
#difficultwomen #strategicrefusal
However we can surely say that we need change - we need to end patriarchal hierarchies built on violence, dominance and exploitation and create equal societies where caring for people and nature is the primary value, not a subordinate sphere.
#DifficultWomen of the world unite!
#bluetwitter
Which post, when... no?
but anyway...
@albomp.bsky.social #corrupt #warmonger #racist #sexist #zionist #pedophile #traitor #spineless #footstool #environmentalvandal #fascist #nazi #rightwing #coalition #conman #bogan #difficultwomen @australianlabor.bsky.social #guillotine #australia
Celebrating #IWD26 with the magnificent difficult women of Limerick
Thank you ROSA Limerick
#difficultwomen #Limerick #IWD
It actually doesn't take much to be considered a difficult #woman. That's why there are so many of us. By Jane Goodall
It actually doesn't take much to be considered a difficult #woman. That's why there are so many of us.
By Jane Goodall
#intersectional #intersectionalitymatters #mentalhealth #socialjustice #humanrights #equity #discrimination #stigma #mentalhealthmatters #ymhc #janegoodall #difficultwomen
#IWD #difficultwomen
May we grow them; may we nurture them; may we build them up & hold them up; MAY. WE. FUCKING. BE. ONE. 💪🏼
Be
as
#difficult
as
you
can
today
#sistas
#iwd
Only #difficultwomen can
#destroythepatriarchy
Be loud
Be proud
Be irksome
Be bold
#sistas are doing it for themselves
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Happy International Women's Day especially all the awesome, smart and snarky women I know who keep me in line when needed and contribute so much.
Yes, this especially includes the difficult women. Keep going.
#IWD #kvinnedagen #InternationalWomensDay #difficultwomen
www.un.org/en/observanc...
#RightsJusticeActionAndJusticeForAll
The un theme is a bit different to the corporate one…. 🫶
#DifficultWomen
Gabrielle Rose dispelled two for the price of one: women slow down after [age]. Bodies slow down after [age].
She didn't listen to either of them. She just swam.
(Nina can swim fast too, when she isn't all tuckered out.)
#difficultwomen
None of the women in this week's posts set out to prove anything. They just did what they wanted to do.
The proving was incidental. Yet, they poked holes in several myths...
#difficultwomen
She competed in the Olympics in 1996. At 46, she swam faster than she'd ever swum in her life.
Twenty-eight years of improvement. The body apparently has opinions about what 46 actually means.
#difficultwomen
Gabrielle Rose. 46. Oldest of 949 swimmers at the 2024 US Olympic Trials. Personal bests in both events.
"Age is a big way that we limit ourselves." — she said this. She's not wrong.
#difficultwomen
