Cinderella Society Winner!!!

Pixie and I chose our top 5 posts! We're posting them here with the first name of the person who wrote them.  The winner was chosen by random.org. The order they are in is the order they were submitted.

Bianca

How it has improved my life:

Well, what most people don't know about me is I am a feminist. At first I didn't even realize it myself. But gradually, as time went on, I begin to notice all of these things that a lot of the girls around me, at my high school or just other places in general, did and how they acted. I hated how they did all of these things for guys and, maybe its because I don't really have much of a great example of a father figure or whatever and I've seen how unfairly and horrible women have been treated. I refuse to lower my standards for ANY guy.

There's more I want to say but this is probably longer than what is needed...

Alannah

I felt empowered when i ran for president of the student committee in my college *and WON!* I'm the first female president of the committee even though the faculty is (and has always been) mostly comprised of women! It looks like they never knew (or never wanted) to be president.

Amber

My best friend was heading down the road of no return. Her boyfriend was a total jerk, she suffered from depression, and she was hanging with the wrong crowd. What could I do? I sat by and watched her spiral downwards.

Then came the jokes about cutting. I began to seriously worry about her. She told me that she hated herself, and she called herself terrible names. That's when I realized that I had to do something.

There are girls like my friend all around the world. There are also best friends who are sitting there and watching it happen. Well, I'm not going to be one of those friends. I'm going to do everything I can to save her. You can be the person to turn your friend's life around. You just have to be willing to jump in and try.

Mary

I don't know if I really have a statment persay. But I think for myself something I not only tell myself now and the girls I teach at church, is to always stand up for what you believe to be right! I look back on my teenage years and I wish so many times I would have stood up to that bully in school. Another thing, which I so wish someone would have told me at 16, is its okay to not know who you are yet. Here I am 27 years old and married and I'm still learning who I am. I didn't even come into myself till I was about 25. I was always the shy girl who sat in the lunch room by herself with a book. I used to think I was the biggest loser but now I look back and say its who I was then. And who I was then has made me who I am today. Strong willed, proud, faithfull, willing to stand up for what I believe to be true, and most importantly so very happy!! There are so many things I tell my nieces all the time about being a girl and growing up. Like its okay to cry when a boys dumps you and it is important to me because its important to you. Its okay to not always go with the fashion because you never know you might start a new fashion. I wish girls knew that it was okay to just ALWAYS be themselves because one day its themselves that they will have to answer to, not the fashion or the cool things of the world. Don't let the mean people get to you and if you do then take that and turn into the good!! Sorry this is so long! I could go on forever I'm sure. I hated my teen and preteen years. I even left HS because I hated it so much. So this book I'm sure is going to be something I wish I had at those ages. So I guess my offical quotable statment would have to be "Be you, be strong, be proud, be faithfull, and again BE YOU". Thanks ladies. (sorry if I bored you) ;)

Denise

Let see my Empowerment story well

right know I'm a junior in high school and I'm on of those person that does really bad in school one of my loves is photography,but I know how hard it is to make it big as a photographer thinking about collage made me sad that I have to stop doing what i loved but a very good librarian told me that I can do it that I had to be willing to work hard to achieve that goal she empower me to fallow my dream and not worry how far I'm make it but to make it

And the winner is.....

Alannah

We'll be submitting your post along with your information off to Daisy.  She'll be getting you a finished copy of The Cinderella Society and your post will go into the blog tour's larger contest for a chance to have $100 donated in your name to Girls Inc.