The older I get, the more clearly I feel my root as a Vietnamese woman and the indelible imprint it leaves on me. Our homeland’s history is the work of making and keeping a country, and through every chapter, women have held the line. Beyond the heroines who fought on battlefields were the women at home who did it all—stocking the front with food and medicine, holding families together, raising children alone, cooking, mending, nursing. If something needed doing, they did it.

On International Women’s Day this year, I want to honor the little girl in me. The girl who used to be stubborn, impulsive, and restless....

There are many things that come to mind when we talk about feminine energy, and one of them is the immense strength and power in...