I was just rereading a book by Patricia Lynn Reilly called Imagine a Woman in Love With Herself and a favorite part is her mantra

There have always been women who remember the old ways. Women who hold within them the memory of a time in the very beginning when women were honored.
Women who refuse to worship the gods, to learn the language, to take the names of the fathers.
Women who refuse to twist their female bodies out of shape to fit into definitions, to transcend limitations. Women who love their bodies regardless.Women who refuse to please others by becoming smaller than they are. women who take up space with their thoughts and feelings, their needs and desires, their anger and their dreams.
Women from every age
Wild women
spinster women
wise women
rebellious women
midwives
witches
healers
activists

It goes on alot more but I was just thinking how lucky I am to know so many women like this