These are poems I created while still in college. Sociology being one of my passions of mine. I consider myself a forever student. The title poem was influenced by a Gender Studies course, one with a cross-cultural perspective. Learning about the roles women play in different cultures, many being matriarchal, I compared them to society here in the United States. Let's face it; women still are striving, we still are trying to gain that full equal status. These poems are reflections, as much as they deal with personal experience within the workplace, in love and all other experiences.