I have had mixed emotions since learning of Margaret Thatcher’s death. I was raised with strong feminist tendencies, and I am co-raising a son in the same vein. I think a lot about issues that women and girls face, and I have built a business with my sister that does what it can to help women succeed. I march, speak up and act up. Regularly my voice breaks at the microphone due to my passion running so swiftly.
Mrs. Thatcher clearly shattered the glass ceiling in British politics, but in getting there she pulled up the ladder for the other women waiting to lead by following in her footsteps. I honor her ability to forge into a world unknown to women at a time when that could not have been easy.
And, yet, the woman that keeps popping into my mind when I think of the opposite of Mrs. Thatcher is Madeleine Albright.
This quote says it all for me.
Rest in peace, Prime Minister. You may not have directly helped a woman standing near you, but there were hundreds – maybe thousands of us – watching and learning from you. I pray we took the best and left the worst behind.
p.s. This is one of my favorite articles this week. It involves women and girls.
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