You Can Love Your Life Now!

Starting Where You Are!

Charli — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:00:03 +0000

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Volume I, Issue 21: Starting Where You Are!

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1. Welcome!

2. Starting Where You Are! (Featured Article)

3. Announcements/Offers

4. About Lovin’ Life Now Weekly Newsletter

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1) Welcome to this issue of our Lovin’ Life Now! weekly newsletter. A special hello to you if you are receiving this for the first time. Feel free to pass this on to anyone you think might be interested in it.

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2) Starting Where You Are!

By Charlene M Brown

So many times we talk about all of the changes we want to make. Whether it’s our clothes, our bodies, our kitchens, or our cars—we are obsessed with constantly moving toward some “other” time-space-reality.

Yet, so often, we find so many things that we think we need to do before we get to the point of actually doing what we say we think we want to do. That last sentence was a bit of a mouthful, so let me break it down for you.

We create obstacles to change.

There, I said it!

Instead of just doing the thing that we desire, we dance all around it without ever actually doing it.

What if, instead, we started wherever we are now!?

That’s a pretty big concept packed into a small amount of words.

Life is a sum of the little tiny decisions you make every day. You didn’t accidentally stumble to where you ARE now, without first making a series of tiny decisions in this particular direction to get you here.

In order for you to move in a different direction, or even stay moving in same the direction, you have to choose to do so. But it doesn’t have to be some far-off decision down the road. No, not at all.

In order for you to move in any direction at all, you must start where you are!

There will always be an OVER THERE that you could worry about. Why not instead focus on RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW. Why not be fully present wherever you are!?

I was reminded of this phenomenal concept several times in the past week or so. The first (which is really the second because of hindsight), was while I was thinking about all of the things that have yet to be completed—all of the things I have started but not finished.

I could think about their “undone-ness” until I am blue in the face, but that is not getting them done, now is it!? Or, instead, I could pick up whichever task is right in front of me and see it to completion! Then move to the next task that my hand touches.

That starts with a decision. If I commit that whatever I am touching is what I am working on right now, I actually accomplish things instead of thinking about all the things left unaccomplished!

You see how that works!?

The second lesson—which was really the first, because I didn’t realize it was second until I took a second look at the other one (do you follow all of that? Lol),–was a friend of mine who had been using one of my e-courses with her daughter. In her feedback, she said, “Charli, you need to take the first one, ‘start where you are’ and say that every four weeks!” So I am taking her advice and upgrading the e-course.

But more than that, I am taking her advice and passing it along to you. Whatever it is, START WHERE YOU ARE!

That is all!

PS: Btw, If you want this e-course, Getting Back to Consciousness, so you too can start where you are, click here or see below!

As Always, A BIG Hug To You!

~Charli B.

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Curls and Head-Scarfs, Lentils and Garlic

Charli — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:46:46 +0000

By Charlene M Brown

Easy laughter goes round in circles

Niece-child the love of both of our lives

Hiccups giggling their way through long distance cables

A forgotten fruit

Light darkness settling around our shoulders

Children taking notice of the love spread over continents

Worlds apart, yet as one

Relaxing into the sound of her voice

Sister-Woman leading different lives

Yet

BEAUTIFUL

Curls and head-scarfs

Plums and lentils

Garlic peals laughing at the Sun

Sand stops

Time soars

Catch 22

Falling into you.

It’s Women’s History Month, Hooray!

Charli — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:17:28 +0000

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Volume I, Issue 20: It’ Women’s History Month, Hooray!

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2. It’ Women’s History Month, Hooray! (Featured Article)

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2) It’s Women’s History Month, Hooray!

By Charlene M Brown

Celebrating Women is not something new. In fact WOMEN have been celebrating ourselves for a very long time. And the study of women has come a long way as far as being written down.

However, women and their role in worldwide society have made great strides, though there is still work to be done in having women’s voices be heard.

The “institutionalized” celebration of women has come about much more recently however, and as I said, there is still work to be done, especially with one woman’s voice being understood by another’s halfway across the world.

In this week’s newsletter I was supposed to give you a short overview timeline of monumental occasions for women, but I got a little carried away!

By no means did I create this timeline and information was taken from the listed sources below, although the comments in [brackets] are mine.

Women Throughout the Years!

· 10,000 to 5,000 BC In several regions, women, who are the traditional gatherers of foodstuffs, initiate the profound cultural phenomenon of agriculture.

· c. 1850 BC Egyptian texts describe contraceptive suppositories, made from a mixture of honey and crocodile dung. This is the first known reference to contraceptives.

· c. 950 An anonymous Norwegian woman writes Wise Women’s Prophesy, a history of the world, including prophecies for the future.

· 1351 England’s Treason Act considers any murder that subverts the usual hierarchies, such as a servant killing his master or a wife killing her husband, to be petty treason.

· 1406 In Korea plans are made for training women doctors to serve female patients who refuse to be treated by male doctors.

· 1692 The Salem witch trials condemn 19 to die; most of the accused and the accusers are women. [isn’t this still the case . . . hmmm]

· 1777 All states pass laws taking away women’s right to vote

· 1793 Hannah Slater receives the first U.S. patent granted to a woman, for a type of cotton thread. Her invention helps her husband build a successful textile business.

· 1817 The South African warrior queen Mmanthatisi becomes the leader of the Tlokwa (a southern Sotho group). She plans military strategy and leads the nation to a new homeland in Lesotho.

· 1839 Mississippi grants women the right to hold property in their own name with their husbands permission

· 1840 Female delegates are refused admittance to the World’s Anti-Slavery Convention in London. This event leads Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton to call the first women’s rights convention.

· 1848 Seneca Falls (NY) Convention held signing the Declaration of Sentiments, pleading for an end to gender discrimination

· 1851 The new Guatemalan constitution grants full citizenship to financially independent women.

· 1855 In Missouri v. Celia, a Slave, a Black woman is declared to be property without a right to defend herself against a master’s act of rape

1868 In Thailand, Amdang Munan refuses to marry the man her parents picked for her. She prevails upon the king to rule that women may choose their own husbands.

· 1879 Through special Congressional legislation, Belva Lockwood becomes first woman admitted to try a case before the U.S. Supreme Court.

· 1881 Sofya Perovskaya helps to plan the assassination of Tsar Alexander II. She is arrested, tried, found guilty, and executed.

· 1889 Wyoming, a U.S. territory, approves a constitution that is the first in the world to grant full voting rights to women.

· 1896 In Zimbabwe, legends hold that the ancestral spirit Ambuya Nehanda enters the body of a woman, who then starts a revolt against the British.

· 1901 Japan’s Women’s College is founded in Tokyo. Many of the women who graduate help to establish feminism in Japan.

· 1905 Mohtaram Eskandari starts the Union of Patriotic Women, Iran’s first organization for women. Religious leaders break up the first meeting and burn some of the women alive. [1905!]

· 1909, February 28^th (the last Sunday in February) is established as National Women’s Day in the United States.

· 1914 In Russia, Princess Eugenie Shakhovskaya is the first female military pilot. She flies reconnaissance missions.

· 1917 Russian women went on strike in opposition of the 2 million dead Russian soldiers in WWI; four days later, the Czar was forced to abdicate and the Russian Government granted women the right to vote. This strike fell on the last Sunday in February (the 23^rd), in the Julian calendar which was in use in Russia. This date coincided with March 8^th on the Gregorian calendar, which was in use in most other places. March 8^th is now considered International Women’s Day.

· 1920 The Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is ratified granting women the right to vote.

· 1923 Egyptian feminist Huda Shaarawi publicly unveils and inspires many other women to do the same.

· 1933 Portugal’s new constitution specifically denies women’s equal rights.

· 1933 In Italy, Mussolini rewards women who have more than 14 children. [Really! 14!?]

· 1963 The Equal Pay Act is passed by U.S. Congress, promising equitable wages for the same work, regardless of the race, color, religion, national origin or sex of the worker.

· 1964 Title VII of the Civil Rights Act (U.S.) passes including a prohibition against employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, or sex.

· 1966 Indira Gandhi wins leadership of the Congress Party and becomes the first female prime minister of India.

· 1969 In Ecuador a “malaria control” program is used as a cover to sterilize peasant women.

· 1969 Golda Meir becomes the first female prime minister of Israel.

· 1973 Jordanian women are granted the right to vote.

· 1973 Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973) and Doe v. Bolton, 410 U.S. 179 (1973): The U.S. Supreme Court declares that the Constitution protects women’s right to terminate an early pregnancy, thus making abortion legal in the U.S.

· 1974 Cleveland Board of Education v. LaFleur, 414 U.S. 632 (1974), determines it is illegal to force pregnant women to take maternity leave on the assumption they are incapable of working in their physical condition.

· 1977 In Saudi Arabia, Princess Misha’al is accused of adultery and executed.

· 1979 Margaret Thatcher becomes the first female prime minister of Great Britain.

· 1981 Sandra Day O’Connor becomes the first woman justice to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court.

· 1984 The state of Mississippi belatedly ratifies the 19th Amendment (U.S.), granting women the vote. [Ummm, really Mississippi!? This is a little ridiculous!]

· 1988 Benazir Bhutto becomes prime minister of Pakistan. She is the first woman leader of a Muslim country in modern history.

· 1993 The Family and Medical Leave Act goes into effect in the United States.

· 1994 Takahashi Hisako becomes the first woman justice on Japan’s Supreme Court.

· 1996 In Afghanistan the ruling Taliban government places strict restrictions on women, forbidding them from receiving an education and working outside the home.

· 1996 A report on female genital mutilation urges international action to end the ancient rite of passage that has already been performed on roughly 100 million girls worldwide.

· 2000 Sirimavo R.D. Bandaranaike of Sri Lanka, the world’s first female prime minister, retires.

· 2000 CBS Broadcasting agrees to pay $8 million to settle a sex discrimination lawsuit by the E.E.O.C. on behalf of 200 women.

· 2001 Voters in Bahrain approve a referendum that includes the right of women to stand for office.

· 2005 Kuwaiti women are granted the right to vote (effective 2007).

· 2006 Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf is inaugurated as Liberia’s first woman president.

· 2007 Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto is assassinated shortly after her return to Pakistan following eight years of self-imposed exile.

This month especially, I encourage you to take a look at some of these links below—this stuff is FASCINATING!

Celebrate Women!

Do You Love Your Life Now!? I DO!!!

Please note that this timeline represents a somewhat arbitrary collection of dates and events that I think are important or interesting. Information taken from: http://www.legacy98.org/timeline.html, http://www.nwhp.org/, http://www.un.org/ecosocdev/geninfo/women/womday97.htm, http://www.britannica.com/women/timeline?tocId=9404138,

As Always, A BIG Hug To You!

~Charli B.

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Cool Women: Reviewing The Shorts!

Blessings: Disguised!

Charli — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 15:15:19 +0000

By Charlene M Brown

In White Christmas, one of my favorite movies, there is a song that goes, “When you’re in bed and cannot sleep/count your blessings instead of sheep/ . . . Then you’ll fall asleep, counting your blessings . . .”

Great movie, great song, but sometimes those blessings are hard to see. Sometimes they are disguised!

There are two things I want to share about this.

First, many things happen that seem at the time to be an “inconvenience” but end up turning into a golden opportunity.

For example: I know a couple who met because there was no other seat for the gentleman to sit on the bus down to a protest. Forty years later they are as happily married as ever. How could he have known that taking that one seat would shift his life so dramatically? A blessing disguised as an empty seat on the bus.

I got a “this is my new girlfriend” introduction from a good male friend of mine. And I was in BITCH mode! I gave her a fake, mildly polite smile and didn’t speak to her for the entire ride back to my apartment where male friend was dropping me off. I saw her at some point later and purposefully didn’t speak even though she smiled and waved at me! A year later, when she was still in my friend’s life, we ended up spending some time together and she is now also one of my closest friends! This was a blessing disguised as a jealous female friend (me!).

Have you ever had something go “wrong” in your day only to find out later that it was “right” all along? Have you ever blown a tire and had to get it repaired only to meet someone that you have a continued or lifelong connection to or find out that there was a terrible accident exactly where you going?

Or perhaps you met your significant other or best friend doing some task that you usually hate!

I met a woman recently at the laundry mat and we were like two kindred spirits. But generally, I abhor going to the laundry mat and she felt the same way. But if we both had not been there at that exact time, we wouldn’t have met at all! This one was a blessing disguised as dirty laundry!

My second thought on this is that we get exactly what we ask for, nothing more or nothing less, but it is usually not in the package we had in mind. This is a blessing disguised too.

Have you been asking for more challenge and suddenly come upon a very trying situation? Or wondered when you were going to have time for yourself and something suddenly dropped out of your life? These are also examples of blessings disguised.

The blessing here is sometimes simply knowing that you will always get what you ask for if only you are open to receiving it and recognizing it when it comes!

Try looking at it in a different way. Try taking a new perspective!

Do You Love Your Life Now!? I DO! (Because I am learning to see my blessings for what they really are!)

(RE)Energize!

Charli — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:15:34 +0000

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Volume I, Issue 19: (RE)Energize!

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2) (RE)Energize!

By Charlene M Brown

I have a friend who is always pushing me. He believes in me more than I believe in myself sometimes. Our relationship has grown and evolved so much, sometimes it’s hard to believe!

He pushed me to go to an event that I would otherwise not have attended. But I did! And it was GREAT!

The people I met there were awesome! And we played a Jeopardy game, which was a lot of fun! I even won it! When I started out the evening, I was a little nervous, but I walked away feeling wonderful, and having faith in people again!

And all because my friend pushed me to go to this meeting!

He is wonderful and a necessary addition to my life. But so was pushing the baby bird out of the nest and encouraging her to go to a meeting where she might be uncomfortable—also wonderful and a necessary addition to my life!

But that’s what we all need to do for each other, push each other to grow and learn to fly!

Believe me when I tell you your flight will be much more fun if you take other people along for the ride! Of course sometimes you will have to fly solo. And sometimes you will be flying at a different speed than those around you. But darnit, if you don’t laugh and remember the times you spend with others!

Short and sweet this week! We’ll connect again next week.

Go! Do! Push! Fly! Soar!

Until then,

A BIG Hug To You, As Always!

~Charli B.

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Emotional Baggage: Clearing the Clutter!

Charli — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 15:15:34 +0000

By Charlene M Brown

We’ve all heard about the woman who is so stuck on her past relationships that she can’t see the good man right in front of her. Or the man who LOVES his woman, but can’t seem to stay faithful to her. These stories are not new.

But here’s the thing, emotional baggage is not just about emotions. There is a physical component too!

If you go by the theory that your surroundings are a reflection of your state of mind, I would bet than when you feel emotionally cluttered, your personal space is cluttered too.

I KNOW this is true for me and I certainly come by it naturally and get it from my mother (and my grandmothers for that matter). No matter how hard I try, my personal spaces usually have some amount of clutter to them.

So it’s no real surprise that sometimes my thoughts are cluttered and crowded too!

And I’d bet that this is true for you too!

Sometimes clearing the emotional clutter begins with clearing the physical baggage first.

For me, everything has to have a specific place. If it doesn’t have a place to go, it’s going to get put anywhere. And that builds up until I can’t take it anymore and can’t think in my own space at all. Then I usually go on a cleaning/clearing rampage and air out my space. But then, unfortunately, I acquire more things that need places.

And the cycle repeats.

Truthfully, I feel better when my space is clear and I like that feeling. But here is where the emotional clutter comes into play. Somewhere deep down inside of me I LIKE the clutter! There I said it!

Yes, I like the clutter and use it as a crutch to make excuses for not doing things. Especially things that would be beneficial to me. This is a programmed response to the clutter. Somewhere along the way, I took comfort in the clutter, the extra padding, if you will.

This is a form of a wall that I have built for myself. It serves the same purpose as comfort food for my psyche.

The trick is to take that deeper look and figure out why I feel like I need the extra padding. Is it because I am afraid of relationships? Is it because I am comfortable being intimate with myself and no one else, or does it go even deeper than that? Is it a fear of not being good enough?

Perhaps, on some level it is all of those things! I have come a LOOOONNNNGGGGGG way toward clearing my space, my energy and my psyche. But because I can still ask these questions and know that there is some TRUTH in them, means that I still have work to do.

I can say, “Hey, I forgive all those things that have happened in my past.” I can focus on all of my blessings in the present and be grateful for all of the experiences I have had in my life. And I can create lasting change in my own attitude as I look to the future.

Sometimes the key to emotional garbage is to throw it in the trash and leave it out on the curb!

Do You Love Your Life Now!? I Do (because I work at it!)!!

It’s The Little Things!

Charli — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 14:15:47 +0000

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Volume I, Issue 18: It’s The Little Things!

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2) It’s the Little Things!

By Charlene M Brown

I live on the East Coast of the United States and as I write this, our third major snow storm (aka, the Blizzard of 2010!) is pouring down yet another two feet of snow.

The first storm, I was jovial and playing in the snow—even making snow angels!

The second storm a few days ago had me a little weary and ready for Spring.

So now, a few days later in the middle of the third storm, I have been griping and groaning about it for the past two days!

Until this afternoon. This afternoon, I got an email from one of the young ladies I used to work with. I want to share that note with you (as is):

Dear Charli,
Today i have realized you were a big part of my life you helped me
understand who I am today and I thank you. Thanks to you i have made
honor roll and i have all straight A’s. Everybody is proud of me
exspecially my dad. you have helped through the toughest part of my
life and i really appreciate that. i know i put you through hell and
i always gave you attitude and cursed you out a couple of time and im
really sorry for that. i just never realized i had a good person with
me by my side through whatever life may throw at me and then once you
left i realized you were there you had my hand my thoughts everything
about me you knew and i really apreciate it .

I love you so much
a

Wow!

I was so touched by this note, that suddenly all my complaints about the snow were so insignificant! Snow is just snow—it will melt. But the impact we make on one another—can be life changing!

This particular young lady I worked with at a local community center. She is spicy, to say the least. Part of my job was to periodically get cursed out by an irate teenager, and sometimes even an irate parent or two. I understood it wasn’t personal, but to receive a note like this makes it all worth it.

What she doesn’t know (or heck maybe she does) is that I am profoundly changed for having met her too! Every person, including the teenagers and kids I have worked with, they have all had an effect on me too!

We all need little reminders sometimes that what we do really does matter. I have a friend who tells me that, he says, “You Matter, Charli.”

So I am passing that message along to you too: You MATTER! And so do your actions, no matter how insignificant you think they are!

And also remember that the next generation is watching you closely, even when they seem like they aren’t paying attention (especially when it seems like they aren’t paying attention!).

So act like everything you do matters. (Stage whispering: because it does)!

I Always Have HUGS To Give!

~Charli B.

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The Common Denominator!

Charli — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:15:34 +0000

By Charlene M Brown

The main difference between being single and being in a relationship is preparation and openness!

No, really!

So many people—and I’m going to talk to us ladies, here—so many of us say we want to be in a relationship, yet we refuse to change our ways.

I’m not saying that we have to change ourselves in order for a man to want to be in a relationship with us. Not at all. I am saying that if we do the same thing we have always done, we’re going to get the same results we’ve always gotten!

We say we want a man, yet we continue to be workaholics who don’t go out and have any fun. Or we go out with the same (usually also single!) girlfriends we went out with last weekend and hit the same clubs we usually go to!

Beautiful, how are you ever going to expect change to come if you aren’t willing to change!?

If a relationship is something you seek, you have to go inward and get some questions answered first!

Like why have your past relationships not worked out? And is there a pattern to the men you have been dating? Are there things you said you would never settle for, yet found that you have?

You can ask yourself questions until you are blue in the face. But really being honest when you answer them is the key.

In my own life, I found that after I had been in the same relationship like 5 times in a row, all the finger-pointing I was doing ultimately came back to ME! The common denominator was ME! I was making the same poor decision over and over again and wasn’t learning my lesson.

Until I was willing to change that habit, my outer circumstances were going to keep repeating themselves.

I promise you this is true for you too! Being willing and open to change can go a loooonnnnngggggg way in tearing down your barriers to a relationship. When you prepare the way, the right partner will come.

But believe you me, it DOES require preparation!

Do You Love Your Life Now!? I Do! (Because I am learning to be open to changing myself!)

When I Grow Up I Want to Be (For HER!)

Charli — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:15:46 +0000

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Volume I, Issue 17: When I Grow Up I Want to Be (For HER!)

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2. When I Grow Up I Want to Be (For HER!) (Featured Article)

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2) When I Grow Up I Want to Be (For HER!)

By Charlene M Brown

My sister has suggested more than once that I share some of my poetry with you. So I am finally taking her up on that idea. This week, instead of our regular article, I am going t share a poem with you. Tell me what you think!

In all my awkwardness as a young girl, as a young woman, all I want to do is reach out to girls. I am so passionate about this. I love looking at the glint in their eyes, when I’ve gotten them hooked. That hunger, that longing to be liked, accepted and loved.

When I Grow Up, I Want to Be (For HER)

I want to be a provider of hugs

A wiper awayer of tears. I want to be listening ears that hang on every word, a voice of reason thru the chaos.

A smoother of hair

A reassuring pat on the shoulder

A “hey Momma, you got this-er!”

A seeker

A soother

Once like them

Still like them, all grown up

A phone number giver

A “call me if you need to talk-er”

A lunch taker outer

A, “Charli, what do you think about this-er”

A flash of light

A warm hot fudge sundae

A “Yes, your Voice is important-er”

A “Speak Up-er”

A Renaissance, Amazon Woman, cultivating the self-loving army of the next generations-er

A Love-er

A Quiet Place where you can think-er

A safe place for you to Be-er

A Yes you can do it-er

A speaker

A listener

A observer

A Her!

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Phenomenal Woman

Charli — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:15:41 +0000

By Maya Angelou

(This is one of my all time favorites!)

Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.
I’m not cute or built to suit a fashion model’s size
But when I start to tell them,
They think I’m telling lies.
I say,
It’s in the reach of my arms
The span of my hips,
The stride of my step,
The curl of my lips.
I’m a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That’s me.

I walk into a room
Just as cool as you please,
And to a man,
The fellows stand or
Fall down on their knees.
Then they swarm around me,
A hive of honey bees.
I say,
It’s the fire in my eyes,
And the flash of my teeth,
The swing in my waist,
And the joy in my feet.
I’m a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That’s me.

Men themselves have wondered
What they see in me.
They try so much
But they can’t touch
My inner mystery.
When I try to show them
They say they still can’t see.
I say,
It’s in the arch of my back,
The sun of my smile,
The ride of my breasts,
The grace of my style.
I’m a woman

Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That’s me.

Now you understand
Just why my head’s not bowed.
I don’t shout or jump about
Or have to talk real loud.
When you see me passing
It ought to make you proud.
I say,
It’s in the click of my heels,
The bend of my hair,
the palm of my hand,
The need of my care,
‘Cause I’m a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That’s me.

Do You Love Your Life Now!? I DO!! (‘cause I’m a woman, Phenomenally, Phenomenal Woman, That’s ME!!)