painful truth

While surfing channels last night, I came across Oprah at a local television station. Though I had a penchant for switching channels during commercial breaks, the issues discussed glued me to the show. At the risk of sounding cheesy, when women are confronted with women’s issues in society, I always get the urge to listen.

After writing several stories about women for my thesis, I always have been fascinated (for lack of a better term) about women’s stories, specially the most common ones. Although there has admittedly been several powerful and successful women nowadays, it is undeniable how fear dominates most part of our everyday living. So, to cut a long story short, Gavin de Becker’s book The Gift of Fear enlightened women on how to dispute their living fear.

On wrapping up discussion, one statement pointed out by the book’s author Gavin de Becker drew responses and several nods among the predominantly female audience:

“When men says no, it means the end of a discussion. When women says no, it means the start of a negotiation.“

He is so right!