Dedication to All Women

Written by Meg McGath

For all the women whose names were never written down,

but whose legacies live in us.

This work is for the mothers, daughters, sisters, aunts, and grandmothers

who shaped history in silence—

who bore witness, raised families, held communities together,

and whose stories were never recorded

because they weren’t seen as important enough to remember.

I see you now.

Your names may not be etched in stone or inked in parchment,

but your strength runs in my blood.

This is my attempt to write you back into history—

to speak your names aloud,

to honor your lives, your losses, your love,

and to say:

you mattered. You still do.

This is for my ancestors

—and every woman whose story was buried beneath a man’s will,

but whose spirit carried generations forward

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