THANK YOU, SUFFRAGETTES!!

Shout, shout, up with your song!

Cry with the wind for the dawn is breaking;

March, march swing you along, 

Wide blows our banner and hope is waking. 

Perhaps it sounds out of sorts and a bit strange for our ears in 2025, but not in 1910, when the song was written and performed. This is the song of suffragettes, March of the Women, who began their long fight for the women’s rights to vote more than a century ago. And they won. In 1920, the 19th Amendment, under pressure from President Wilson was ratified. And the result - the most promising for us ladies, women are equal when it comes to the business world, from small corporations to the large. We can be whoever we want. We can even be a White House press secretary, if we want a twenty-four-hour job. Or Katharine Graham, who was an owner and a publisher of various newspapers, including The Washington Post. And how about, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the first Jewish woman and the second woman to serve as an associate justice of the Supreme Court. And then, yours truly, me, a business owner, founder and CEO of Izabella’s Gourmet Chow. I started my business educating kids in cooking and languages, and now, I offer classes to adults, and not only that, I work with the disabled, helping them to learn basic life tasks; families who have addicts in the family, cancer patients AND on April 28th, my very first book was published, “The One and Only.” 

I don’t think my business and my book would have been possible if it weren’t for suffragettes. SO THANK YOU SUFFRAGETTES, you made it possible for us to be who we want to be.

La Dolce Vita! Happy May!! Bravo Women!!! 

Until next month!