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Published: Jan. 8, 2018, 4:30 p.m.

Hello everyone! Civilla Morgan here! Welcome back to Childless, not by Choice, where my mission is to recognize and speak to the broken hearts of childless not by choice women, and men, around the world.\xa0 I am spreading the great news that we can live a joyful, relevant, and fulfilled life, although we could not, did not, have the children we so wanted.

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Well today, at the suggestion of a member of our Childless not by Choice Facebook group, I am going to tell you about 11 childless, not by choice women who changed the world! Cool, right? What a wonderful way to start off the new year!

I want to remind you that although we are on a childless not by choice journey, a journey we did not plan when we were seven and playing wedding with our dolls or writing little love notes to the cute boy in 6th grade. Or maybe you married the love of your life only to realize there would be no natural born children. You are still on this planet for a reason.

Once you face the fact that you will not have children, and whether you adopt, you must decide what you will do with the rest of your life. Will you blend into the background of life, existing, deciding not to show up for your own life?\xa0 Opting to live with a level of unhappiness that exists just beneath the surface. An almost, not quite sadness that brews just beneath the surface? A seething bitterness, anger, envy, or fear of growing old and alone. Your prayers, dreams, hopes, and wishes smashed to pieces.

OR, you, we, can CHOOSE to face all that negativity squarely in the face; however, it manifests: family, friends, frienemies, and strangers; and CHOOSE to create the life you would like to live. With that, here is part one of the list. Listen to episode 79, for part two.\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0

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The list:

There were many wonderful women to choose from. It was tough to narrow it to 10, you know, the typical top 10 list; but that 11th person I just could not leave off.

How I decided:

• I chose women from around the world
• I chose women from different walks of life
• I chose women from different socioeconomic levels
• I chose women who made a global as well as local impact with their lives.
• I chose women who made an impact in just about every industry: medicine, music, religion, politics, social justice, and the arts. Well, almost every field.

Well, without further ado, may I present the list:

Dr. Audrey Evans\u2014Born in York, England, 1925.\xa0 Life\u2019s work: Pediatric Oncology. She \u201cdeveloped the Evans Staging System for neuroblastoma, a malignant hemorrhagic tumor of the adrenal medulla that occurs mainly in infants and children.\u201d She also co-founded the Ronald McDonald House.

I posted two links below. One is a link of more information on Dr. Evans, the other is an awesome video where she is interviewed. I purposely did not say too much about Dr. Evans because that video says it all. It will leave you speechless.\xa0

https://cfmedicine.nlm.nih.gov/physicians/biography_106.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hstjG19OjkA\xa0 (I LOVE this video)

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\u201cRosa Louise McCauley Parks (1913 \u2013 2005) was an African American civil rights activist and seamstress whom the U.S. Congress dubbed the \u201cMother of the Modern-Day Civil Rights Movement\u201d.

Parks is famous for her refusal on 1 December 1955, to obey bus driver James Blake\u2019s demand that she relinquish her seat to a white man. Her subsequent arrest and trial for this act of civil disobedience triggered the Montgomery Bus Boycott, one of the largest and most successful mass movements against racial segregation in history, and launched\xa0Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., one of the organizers of the boycott, to the forefront of the civil rights movement.\u201d\xa0

In other words, she was a catalyst! I know she did not get up that morning thinking \u2018I think I will be a catalyst today!\u2019 For more information on Ms. Parks, please view the link below.\xa0

https://www.biographyonline.net/humanitarian/rosa-parks.html

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Mother Teresa (1910\u20131997) was a Roman Catholic nun who devoted her life to serving the poor and destitute around the world. She spent many years in Calcutta, India where she founded the Missionaries of Charity, a religious congregation devoted to helping those in great need. In 1979, Mother Teresa was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and became a symbol of charitable, selfless work. In 2016, Mother Teresa was canonized by the Roman Catholic Church as Saint Teresa.

One of her famous quotes was:

\u201cIt is not how much we do,
but how much love we put in the doing.
It is not how much we give,
but how much love we put in the giving.\u201d

See the link below for more information on Mother Theresa.

https://www.biographyonline.net/nobelprize/mother_teresa.html

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\u201cMary Cassatt (May 22, 1844-June 14, 1926) was an American artist best remembered for her paintings depicting the intimate bond between mothers and children. She was one of the leading artists of the Impressionist movement and along with Marie Bracquemond and Berthe Morisot,\xa0she is counted amongst the greatest female artists of her time.

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For more information on Mary Cassatt, click the link below.\xa0

https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/mary-cassatt-6066.php

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Joan of Arc (1412-1431) is a French heroine and Roman Catholic saint. Born in obscurity to a peasant family, she traveled to the uncrowned Dauphin of France, advising him to reclaim his French throne and defeat the English. Joan of Arc was sent alongside French troops to the siege of Orleans and rose to prominence after the siege was lifted after nine days. She was later captured and burned at the stake for heresy. However, as she predicted, seven years after her death, France was reunited with the English defeated and Charles crowned King.

Quote: \u201cOne life is all we have, and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.\u201d\u2014Joan of Arc

For the rest of the story, please click the link below:

https://www.biographyonline.net/women/joan-of-arc.html

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Oprah Winfrey--January 29, 1954--is an American media proprietor, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist. She Overcame childhood abuse and rejection as a young woman to become one of the wealthiest women on the planet. \xa0Oprah Winfrey was born in Kosciusko, Mississippi. Her parents were unmarried and separated soon after conception. Oprah had a difficult childhood. She lived in great poverty and often had to dress in potato sacks for which she was mocked at school. She was also sexually abused at an early age.

Oprah has proven to countless woman, and in particular black women worldwide, that it truly is not how you start out, but how you end. It truly is up to you.

Quotes:

\u201cDoing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.\u201d

\u201cBe thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.\u201d

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\u201cSurround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.\u201d

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https://www.biographyonline.net/humanitarian/oprah-winfrey.html

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