There's a special place...

‘There is a special place in hell for women who do not help other women’. Madeleine K. Albright

Madeleine must have said this in exasperation. She probably could not understand how a woman would choose not to help other women particularly a woman in a position of influence.

Yet we see it everyday don't we? It is glimpsed in the sister in-law who refuses to babysit her nephews and says something like "nobody helped me look after my kids, you have to learn to cope by yourself". It is captured in the unspoken words of the work colleague who never shares information and also in the threatening look a female boss gives a subordinate who she perceives as a threat.

We learn to live with it. We may even be the ones that withold our help from others. We think 'it's life, deal with it'. It never seems to cross our minds that we could and should change it or that it goes against how we are defined; as nurturing and loving beings.

Seriously women, why should anyone have to go through the rigorous motions you endured before you got something or somewhere? Isn't it bad enough that you went through it?

From one woman to others, shall we stop, think and realise that truly we ought to help one another? It is not at all the end of the world if someone has it easier because of you, it should in fact, be a joy that you made life that much simpler for another and who knows, there may very well be a special place in heaven for women who do help other women.