Strong Women

• Strong women race Arabian horses into strong North Dakota winds.
• Strong women wash their laundry with old-fashioned wringer washers because they gave the automatic washer and dryer to charity.
• Strong women spend a couple hours after school in the field hauling rocks by hand with their mother.
• Strong women travel half-way across the country in small cars and sleep by the side of the road because they don't want to pay for a motel.
• Strong women haul small square bales through 3 foot snow drifts in sub-zero temperatures with a homemade toboggan so the cattle and horses will have a warm place to sleep.
• Strong women go out and pitch hay to the horse when the wind chill factor is negtive 60 degrees.
• Strong women respect the people around them and do not use them.
• Strong women dig most of a quarter mile of potatoes on their own, then haul them into the yard with the pickup and wash them with the garden hose on the lawn.
• Strong women get up at 6:00 a.m. to walk three miles before work.
• Strong women survive child abuse, divorce, depression, thyroid disease, multiple sclerosis and much more and still live "normal" productive lives.
• Strong women care for their aging parents in their homes.
• Strong women care for other people's ageing parents as well.
• Strong women journal as a form of therapy.
• Strong women learn to bite their tongue rather than using it as a weapon.