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Showing Original Post only (View all)"I've started telling my daughters I'm beautiful" [View all]
"I've started telling my girls that I think I'm beautiful. It's been so easy to tell them how beautiful THEY are, because it's obvious. They are the thing beauty is made of. They are the reason we started worshipping beauty. They sparkle and dance. When they're sleeping, they turn into soft cloud babies, little perfect tufts of white on the moonlight.
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."
Read more:
http://offbeatmama.com/2012/11/telling-daughters-im-beautiful
I have a son, and I am going to start saying this around him as well - this really opened my eyes in many ways.
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there have been plenty of times during history when heavy women were considered sexy
liberal_at_heart
Nov 2012
#9
But the point of the article is about how women view themselves, despite society
ehrnst
Nov 2012
#37
Oh, it's funny how money seems to make up for a lack of looks with some people.
Arugula Latte
Nov 2012
#52
Yes, but this article is about the way the women should be shown to see themselves
ehrnst
Nov 2012
#36
I get what you're saying about evolution (while missing the point of the piece), but
Arugula Latte
Nov 2012
#51
The problem with this theory is that there's no universal standard for beauty
Major Nikon
Nov 2012
#63
I embrace my age. It took me a long time to get here. Every night I go to bed I pray
southernyankeebelle
Nov 2012
#19
Oh yes it is especially the way things are today. I watched the Housewives shows and you
southernyankeebelle
Nov 2012
#45
You are just like my husband. I'm lucky because he is 7 yrs young than I. I love him
southernyankeebelle
Nov 2012
#44
Well I have a husband who has gotten better looking with age. I tell him always how
southernyankeebelle
Nov 2012
#46
You know we all need to feel appreciated. Your husband is lucky and he is lucky to have
southernyankeebelle
Nov 2012
#64