Great quote - Cowgirls

bq. "I never intended to become a cowgirl. Sure, I grew up on a ranch, and I loved riding horses when I was a child. I knew my way around a milk cow all right, but never, ever did I dream cowgirl dreams. Cowgirl just wasn't a career option back then, at least not a very glamorous one. Movie star -- that's what little girls of my generation longed to be. ... bq. Over the years I've discovered that there's more to being a cowgirl than punching cows, or winning rodeo trophies, or galloping off into a movie sunset with Roy. Cowgirl is an attitude, really. A pioneer spirit, a special American brand of courage. The cowgirl faces life head on, lives by her own lights, and makes no excuses. Cowgirls take stands. They speak up. They defend the things they hold dear. A cowgirl might be a rancher, or a barrel racer, or a bull rider, or an actress. But she's just as likely to be a checker at the local Winn Dixie, a full-time mother, a banker, an attorney, an astronaut." bq. "Children of my generation longed to be movie stars. Today, even movie stars want to be cowgirls. I'm in my golden years, as they say, but I still sometimes find myself thinking about what I'd like to be when I grow up. It's sort of silly, I know, but -- I think I'd like to be a cowgirl." bq. Dale Evans Rogers, Los Angeles, 1992 Quoted from The Cowgirl Companion, p.ix, by Gail Cilchriest, ISBN 1-56282-868-1 Says it all -- this is the attitude that I think defines who we are as Americans and we are in some places loosing it. (think Blue Counties)