The Furious Spinner

As I read this article I told myself once again to straighten up and fly right and be courageous and quit whining and stop being afraid. I am so lucky to have been born here, so lucky to have born into a middle-class family. I am so fortunate. So many women in so many places on our planet live in horror and misery. Helene Cooper writes about what the women of Liberia have just done. They've elected a woman president. They were tired of war. So they elected Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf. Cooper says prominent women haven't always made her proud, so to speak, but she is hopeful Johnson-Sirleaf will.

She writes, "Ever since the voting results started coming in a few days ago, showing what the Liberian women had done, I've been unable to get one image from Bukavu out of my mind. It is of an old woman, in her 30's. It was almost twilight when I saw her, walking up the hill out of the city as I drove in.

She carried so many logs that her chest almost seemed to touch the ground, so stooped was her back. Still, she trudged on, up the hill toward her home. Her husband was walking just in front of her. He carried nothing. Nothing in his hand, nothing on his shoulder, nothing on his back. He kept looking back at her, telling her to hurry up.

I want to go back to Bukavu to find that woman, and to tell her what just happened in Liberia. I want to tell her this: Your time will come, too."

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