AUTHOR SUBMISSION FOR AND THE WOMEN GATHER: THE BOOK
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From: Lorna O.
Date: Sunday, November 22, 2009, 12:01 PM
Subject: Author Submission for AND THE WOMEN GATHER: THE BOOK
ID: 269335

Introduction

There’s a reason why this fabulous gathering of women tonight is called, appropriately, “and the women gather.”

We are going to hear and see, taste and smell, and most important, feel what happens when we come together with a common purpose.

We have done it for centuries, and all over the world. We have come together to harvest the grains in the field with which we would sustain our families. We have come together to make the quilts that kept them warm. We have come together when we haven’t felt like it, but there was work to be done, miseries to be shared, and, mercifully, a good laugh to be had.

Tonight we will be reminded what really happens when the women gather:

When women gather their thoughts, we compose beautiful words as author Edwidge Danticat writes: “There is a place where women are buried in clothes the color of flames, where we drop coffee on the ground for those who went ahead, where the daughter is never fully a woman until her mother has passed on before her. There is a place where, if you listen closely in the night, you will hear your mother telling a story and at the end of the tale, she will ask you this question: “OU libere?” Are you free, my daughter?”

When we gather our strength we win seats in the Senate - or Wimbledon.

And when we gather our courage, as did a shy, mousy widow named Katherine Graham, we can drive dishonest presidents from the cloistered seat of power.

And when we gather enough time and energy, we take events such as this from dream to reality.

This was Lorna Owens’ idea. She saw women, friends - successful women - living lives without balance. Women who had “made it” and whose insecurities kept them from making even more of it - or taking that figurative leap off a cliff.

Lorna knows what that’s like. Lorna is a professional speaker who travels the country talking to corporations and groups of professional women. She encourages them to rise above mediocrity, to achieve their greatness.

Whether it is overcoming fear, stress or burnout, or simply changing your life, no one understands the process better than Lorna Owens. After all, she has reinvented herself from being an attorney to someone who is living her dreams. Lorna is on a fast rise to becoming a sought-after international speaker and author.

I’m going to let her tell more of her own story of transformation. Lorna Owens.

—Nancy Ancrum, Editorial Board - Miami Herald

Chapter 1 The Begining

It came to me after coming home late one night from an evening of mediation. I had to continue the journey of changing and reinventing myself but the assigned was going to be bigger, global. I felt scared. Then the voice said I needed to take my message for change and creating balance to professionals all over the world. But immediately, I needed to do a fireside chat for women called “and the women gather.”

Chapter 2 History

Chapter 3 Female Archetype- Nanny of The Maroon

Chapter 4 Women Access to Cash

Chapter 5 Miseducation of the Professional Women

Chapter 6 Women and Social Media

Chapter 7 Women Who Rock

Chapter 8 Let’s Talk. A Male Perspective

Chapter 9 Women on Health Facts v Myths

Chapter 10 Women and Beauty.

Chapter 11 Women in Politics

Chapter 12 Women save The Earth

Chapter 13 Women and Relationship

Chapter 14 Women and Self Worthy

Chapter 15 The Diva With In

Chapter 16 War on Women

Chapter 1 7 Women will Change the World

‘If you’re hungry, keep walking. If you are thirsty, keep walking. If you want a taste of freedom, keep walking. For us, women of Liberia, this award is a call that we will keep walking until peace, justice and the rights of women is not a dream, but is a thing of the present. Thank you very much.”

Leymah Gbowee

Chapter 18 Women and Spirituality

Chapter 19 The Elders-We call your names

Chapter 20 We are the Ones. Call to action

THESE ARE OUR WORKING CHAPTERS. DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION DECEMBER 14, 2009

PUBLICATION DATE : NOVEMBER 1, 2010

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