Susan notes: I love how these Daily Om messages often speak to me directly... so many life lessons to learn, so little time to learn them!
Disappointment provides us a bridge from expectations to acceptance of reality, wisdom, and the energy to begin again.
Whenever we do something in life with an expectation of how we would like it to turn out, we risk experiencing disappointment.
Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, LG, OM, PC, FRS (October 13, 1925 - April 8, 2013) served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990.
"I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it."
She is the only woman to have held either post.
I've got the children to tend
The clothes to mend
The floor to mop
The food to shop
Then the chicken to fry
The baby to dry
I got company to feed
The garden to weed
I've got shirts to press
The tots to dress
Maya Angelou (born Marguerite Ann Johnson on April 4, 1928) is an American autobiographer and poet who has been called "America's most visible black female autobiographer" by scholar Joanne M. Braxton.
She is best known for her series of six autobiographical volumes, which focus on her childhood and early adult experiences.
Agnes Campbell Macphail (March 24, 1890 – February 13, 1954) was the first woman to be elected to the Canadian House of Commons, and one of the first two women elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario.
Active throughout her life in progressive Canadian politics, Macphail worked for two separate parties and promoted her ideas through column-writing, activist organizing, and legislation.