I Am Woman

If I have to, I can do anything.
I am strong, I am invincible,
I am Woman

I remember lying in bed one night and the words,
‘I am strong, I am invincible, I am woman’,
kept going over and over in my head.
That part I consider to be divinely inspired.
I had been chosen to get a message across.
~ Helen Reddy, a day before she penned the lyric
and handed it to Australian guitarist Ray Burton to put it to music.

I couldn’t find any songs that said
what I thought being a woman was about.
I thought about all these strong women in my family
who had gotten through the Depression and
world wars and drunken, abusive husbands.
But there was nothing in music that reflected that”

This post is dedicated to all the women of strength in my life.