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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"I've started telling my daughters I'm beautiful"
For the ladies- mothers or not. ANd for the hubbies, daughters and sons of those ladies. Wonderful read.
http://offbeatmama.com/2012/11/telling-daughters-im-beautiful
"There are a lot of people like me. Women who know things. Women who have seen things. Women with diseases in their livers. There are a lot of women with scars on their arms and words that carry themselves like sparrows. There are women who were too big for this town, who had their backs bent carrying things like religion and a history that originated somewhere in the crook of a branch that extended over a stream. A place where a patch of the sky was visible through the leaves, where a little girl let her bare leg dangle too far down.
There are a lot of people like me, because we're all the same. We're all blood and electricity. We're lonely under the gaze of god. We're all wet with dew and swallowing hard against DO THIS, CONSUME, SHUT UP and BE AFRAID to die.
All of you women with lines on your brow, with cracks between your fingers
it's been a long winter. All of you, you are beautiful and so am I."
veganlush
(2,049 posts)Ive told my daugters that im beatiful, they said "look in the mirror, dad"
Poll_Blind
(23,864 posts)PB
flobee1
(870 posts)Its what's in your heart and mind that make beauty.
and that article is poetry!
struggle4progress
(118,350 posts)and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain't I a woman? Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And ain't I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man - when I could get it - and bear the lash as well! And ain't I a woman? I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain't I a woman?"
Sojourner Truth
Akron, Ohio
1851
ceile
(8,692 posts)Greybnk48
(10,176 posts)All women should believe this. It would be so much healthier for everyone.
Generic Other
(28,979 posts)Thanks for inspiring us all.