Single sex schools give many girls something surprisingly rare: the experience of seeing women occupy every level of authority without explanation or exception. Entire institutions run by women. So no one will ever convince me that women are incompetent.
"Thank you,Mr Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. One of my favourite books is Nice Girls Don’t Get the Corner Office. This is in response to what you told me earlier in the morning when you urged me to be a good example to the girls,the younger ones who are doing their first term. Mr Speaker, if they are good girls, they will never get the corner office. Be as bad as Millie Odhiambo and you will be the mother of this House. I am a bad girl and as a bad girl I am here serving my fourth term.
So do not be cheated like in the African culture where you are told to have decorum, dress nicely, be kind and nice. You will go nowhere. Be a bad girl like me and you will get somewhere."
Just a warning if you're buying a watch on Amazon. I learned the hard way that if it says you can swim with it, this only applies if you can already swim without it.
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Sometimes male anger at ‘women getting special treatment’ reminds me of a gorilla experiment.
One gorilla gets a banana every hour. The females next to him get one every four hours. Then someone decides to be ‘fairer’ and gives the females a banana every two hours instead. The original gorilla? He flips out. He’s still getting his banana every hour, but it feels like a loss because his advantage shrank.
That’s how a lot of men react to basic fairness for women: not as justice, but as theft.
an elderly man was once asked how he managed to stay married for over 50 years. his answer was unexpectedly blunt: "there were many mornings where I woke up, looked at my wife, and didn't feel a single spark of romance. i was tired, or she was irritable, or life was simply heavy."
when asked if that lack of "feeling" worried him, he shook his head.
"i didn't marry a feeling," he explained. "i married a human being. On the days the feeling went missing, i simply worked harder to serve her. i made the coffee exactly how she liked it.
i listened to her stories even if I’d heard them a dozen times. i chose to act like a man in love until the feeling decided to show back up."
i learned the same lesson from my father and the men in my community : real love isn't something you find; it's something you build when you’d rather be doing something else.

Ladies, we need to have a chat. It’s okay to poop, really. It’s even okay to have a stinky poo in a public restroom as well. What’s NOT okay is you hosing the place down with Bath & Body Works Warm Vanilla Sugar making it smell like someone took a dump on a birthday cake.