Not Every Woman is on Indian Time like me.  Indian Time has nothing to do with a clock.  It is Indian Time when it is the right time for things to happen.  When all the dancers are assembled and the drum is ready, Indian Time says the powwow may begin.  Forget about that paper program you got on your way in...Grand Entry is not at noon. I was a teenager and acted as parent to my siblings.  Now I am old enough to be a grandma and am going to college.  It's my time; it's Indian Time.
Ruth G. Torres - West Haven, CT


Not Every Woman has a ticking biological clock.  I don't.  Does that mean I'm not a "real" woman?  Or that I'm selfish?  Or that I hate children?  Perhaps...but I doubt it.  Maybe it just means, in the greater scheme of things, that I'm not sure how important it is for me to replicate myself in miniature form.  Even if, out of the blue, my clock were to begin ticking, I hope it's not loud enough to drown out the burning question of, "Why??"
Susheela Varky - Richmond, VA


Not Every Woman...has the priveledge to grow old.
Paula Giammarco


Not Every Woman is fortunate to have her father physically walk her down the aisle for her wedding. I am a daughter who coped with this disappointment knowing that her Daddy, who passed away, walked beside her in spirit.
Hope Byers - Silver Spring, MD


Not Every Woman has had the privilege of being born a country woman.  Someone who has gained unique perspective of our world communing with the birds and bees; the flowers and the trees; and creatures both big and small.  Marvelous is the lifelong experience of family, friends and acquaintances; but wonderful is the soul-fulfilling knowledge of the inner beauty God has graced us all to live in.
Margie Brown - Bastrop, LA



Not Every Woman wants a man. Don’t get me wrong. Some of my best friends are men. They are my friends, my father, my brother, just not my lover. This isn’t a man-hating rant. All I’m saying is this: don’t think that I’m incomplete just because I don’t have a band around my ring finger. Not every woman wants a man, when she has the love of a woman. Not every woman wants a man, when she has the love of herself.
Rosita Choy - Washington, DC


Not Every Woman needs to be in the limelight. Some are content to be in the back of the room, knowing that her ideas will one day change the
world.
Jennifer Hock, Washington, DC


Not Every Woman escapes.  There are means.  The doors are there.  But opening, even taking one small step...  It's
easier to stay.  It's hard or harder to go.  The woman who goes finds it in her heart and gut, feet and mind, hands and back to rise and
step.  Away from what is not good, or bad, or just not enough and toward something that is...hers.  Step and step again.  Freely
now.  Two-step or triplet.  Quarter-time, quarter-time.  Pulse: temple, wrist.  Beat.  Beating.  Fast and faster.  There is
life.  Her life.  See her now.  She is.
Andrea Lepcio - New York, NY


Not Every Woman chooses to march to the bet set by society. some of us create our own rhythm; develop our own cadence; and lovingly
give birth to our own dance. We become the change that we see, and we ae the beauty we create.
Tonya - Silver Spring, MD


Not Every Woman has a stage upon which to be a star.  Dancing has allowed me not only to express myself but also to share and create with others.  It would be nice if all of the world were a stage; however most women are too busy, too pained, or too tired to take advantage of it.  Therefore, I hope that my stage is not just a platform but a bridge that allows every woman to cross over her pain, her fears, and her fatigue to find her own stage, to create (or re-create) herself, and, of course, to dance!
Aliya Wong - Washington, DC

Not Every Woman has the ability to give birth... or to see her children mature... or to keep her children free from harm... or
to see her family injury and sickness free.  But, every woman has the ability to empower those close to her with love, to teach right from
wrong, to show and guide by doing instead of talking, to instill those moral values of our ancestors in the next generation that seems to have
been lost or forgotten and above all not to forget who she is.....................
 Juanita Pitchford - Grandmother, Mother, Aunt, Sister, Daughter - Fredericksburg, VA