婦女節快樂!
International Working Women's Day,簡寫IWD,全稱"聯合國婦女權益和國際和平日"(United Nations women's rights and international peace day),在中國又稱"國際婦女節"、"三八節"和"三八婦女節"。從1909年3月8日,美國芝加哥婦女爭取"男女平等"遊行集會以來,至21世紀已走過了百餘年曆程。是在每年的3月8日為慶祝婦女在經濟、政治和社會等領域做出的重要貢獻和取得的巨大成就而設立的節日。
International Women's Day (IWD), originally called International Working Women's Day, is celebrated on March 8 every year. It commemorates the struggle for women's rights.The earliest Women's Day observance was held on February 28, 1909, in New York and organized by the Socialist Party of America. A Women's Day demonstration on March 8, 1917 in Petrograd sparked the Russian Revolution. Declared a national holiday in the Soviet Russia in 1917, it was predominantly celebrated by the socialist movement and communist countries until it was adopted in 1977 by the United Nations.
A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.
~~ Eleanor Roosevel
女人就像是茶包。把她放進熱水,就知道她有多強了。
——埃莉諾·羅斯福(美國總統富蘭克林·羅斯福的夫人)
Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.
~~ Oprah Winfrey
像女王一樣思考。女王不懼怕失敗。失敗是通往卓越之路的踏腳石。
——奧普拉·溫弗瑞(美國演員、主持人)
No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men.
~~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah
如果沒有女人和男人一起並肩作戰,任何奮鬥都不可能成功。
——穆罕默德·阿里真納(巴基斯坦國父)
If women ran the world we wouldn't have wars, just intense negotiations every 28 days.
~~ Robin Williams
如果這個世界由女人統治,戰爭將不復存在。但每28天就要進行一場激烈的協商。
——羅賓·威廉姆斯(美國演員)
I don't want to be remembered as the girl who was shot. I want to be remembered as the girl who stood up.
~~Malala Yousafzai
我不想作為被槍擊的女孩兒被人記住,我想作為站起來發聲的女孩而被記住。
——馬拉拉(諾貝爾和平獎獲得者)
Women are made to be loved, not understood.
~~ Oscar Wilde
女人生來是被愛的,而不是理解的。
——奧斯卡·王爾德(愛爾蘭作家、詩人)
I believe that the rights of women and girls is the unfinished business of the 21st century.
~~Hillary Clinton
我相信婦女和女童的權利是21世紀未盡的事業。
——希拉里·克林頓(美國前國務卿)
If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
~~ Aristotle Onassis
假如世界上沒有女人,所有的金錢都沒有存在的意義。
——亞里士多德•奧納西斯(希臘船王)
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