Ladies First - wise women talking Ladies First

 "You can't stop the clock. And when my mother turned 70 I was in my 30s. And I thought "oh my god that is so old, and I said to her how does it feel?" And she told me the wisest thing she said:"I still feel like that 14 year old girl." And that's the truth. So here I am 71 - I am the same. I am that person that was 14." Meet Marjorie Horowitz - a loving wife, mother and grandmother, a former NY cabdriver and a fighter of injustice since she is 12 years old. 

“I am a very political person, I believe passionately that women have to run.” - Charlotte Bennett Schoen started her political career years ago with joining the League of Women Voters. With a background in teaching she ended up founding a mental health Center and went from there all the way to serve in the City Council. "I saw that in these small towns you could make something happen. And then one thing let to the other". Passionate about women helping women she also ended up working regularly in communities in India, Thailand and Burma. Tune in and then ... run for office! :)

"At a certain age, we fall out of love with ourselves because society likes younger people. I don't want to see women doing that. I want to see them continuing to have that excitement about themselves, and just be a little bit maybe narcissistic, because we do tend to give and give and give. That's what women do." Meet Bobby Clennell - a world travelling yoga teacher, an animation drawer, a wife and a mother. Tune in and get enlightened. 

"I really feel like whatever I've learned - I’ve learned because I've opened myself up to seeing what other people have and don't have, and learning to appreciate what I do have." Meet Nancy Shamban and listen to her story: about being a feminist psychotherapist in the 60s, travelling the world and overcoming fear. 

"I will never retire. One day I will be here, and the next day I'll drop dead. Obviously we don't live forever, but I would never retire. I'm always wanting to make it better." Meet Eleanor Ambos: 91 years old, famous for transforming an old warehouse into an artistic wonderland.

"I grew up in a small community, outside of Philadelphia. In my time you would only leave the house when you got married, for college, or in a pine box. So I convinced my grandmother that she let me go to New York, and I went, and I never came back." In Part I of this episode, Sheila Merriweather is talking about her life in New York, working two jobs, learning from friends, and how it feels being an African-American woman, now and then.