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A moment of gratitude and empathy: Celebrating the spirit of Women's Day

Here's how I want to celebrate women's day. This is for all the feminists who broke the norms throughout history to achieve something like equality for us today. I cannot express my gratitude for you enough. To all those inspirational names in history who have given the women of today someone to look upto, and to all those nameless, faceless spirits whose pages have faded away in history, to the conscious fighters, the suffragettes and the open rebels who fought for what was right and due, and to the modest movers who took small steps towards personal liberation without even knowing they were fighting for feminism.... Every small step you've taken has taken humanity closer to achieving equality. I may not have known you, I may not have seen you, the world or history may not recognise your names or faces, but I am aware that even my basic rights like voting, financial independence, and education are privileges hard-earned through your struggles in the course of