The beauty of a woman

I recently finished writing a paper for school about the gender roles within the classroom, based on those outside the classroom. It shouldn't have taken me as long as it did to write, but i would get stuck on websites reading for hours because there is so much controversy surrounding this topic. Society has continually moved to an androgynous society with no clear lines drawn between genders. Parents shouldn't push their children into a set gender, but rather allow the child to choose... you get the general idea. I won't bore you with my entire paper but I just found this on Facebook and loved it. I am a traditional thinker and believe that God created man and woman different and that's just the way it is. I love the differences and I loved how this little note described the beauty of women: 

A little boy asked his mother, "Why are you crying?" "Because I'm a woman," she told him.

"I don't understand," he said. His Mom just hugged him and said, "And you never will."

Later the little boy asked his father, "Why does mother seem to cry for no reason?"

"All women cry for no reason," was all his dad could say.

The little boy grew up and became a man, still wondering why women cry.

Finally he put in a call to God. When God got on the phone, he asked, "God, why do women cry so easily?"

God said, "When I made the woman she had to be special.

I made her shoulders strong enough to carry the weight of the world,

yet gentle enough to give comfort.

I gave her an inner strength to endure childbirth and the rejection that many times comes from her children.

I gave her a hardness that allows her to keep going when everyone else gives up, and take care of her family through sickness and fatigue without complaining.

I gave her the sensitivity to love her children under any and all circumstances, even when her child has hurt her very badly.

I gave her strength to carry her husband through his faults and fashioned her from his rib to protect his heart.

I gave her wisdom to know that a good husband never hurts his wife, but sometimes tests her strengths and her resolve to stand beside him unfalteringly.

And finally, I gave her a tear to shed. This is hers exclusively to use whenever it is needed."

"You see my son," said God, "the beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries, or the way she combs her hair.

The beauty of a woman must be seen in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart - the place where love resides."

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.  

~Kahlil Gibran

Beauty... when you look into a woman's eyes and see what is in her heart.  

~Nate Dircks