Womanhood
The ideal woman looks beautiful, happy, carefree, and perfectly competent. Is she really? To look any particular way and to actually be that way are two separate concepts, and striving to look carefree and happy can interfere with your ability to feel so. The internet codifies this problem, makes it inescapable; in recent years, pop culture has
... See moreJia Tolentino • Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
The most authentic, fleshed out, truly female-centered narratives (e.g. Little Women and My Brilliant Friend) all include Time as a main character.
Women exist in cycles, phases, periods, seasons. A snapshot in time of a woman is not what she once was or what she will be. We are maidens, mothers, and matriarchs. We... See more
Kyrasubstack.comI don’t know one balanced woman. I know a lot of women who are two extra days in a week away from feeling balanced, or one professional housecleaning service away from feeling balanced, or one generous extension on the deadline away from feeling balanced, or three entire days of their children in someone else’s loving and competent care away from
... See moreKatherine Morgan Schafler • The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control
The answer is an unequivocal yes. So why, if this is all so and too true, do women keep trying to bend and fold themselves into shapes that are not theirs? I must say, from years of clinical observation of this problem, that most of the time it is not because of deep-seated masochism or a malignant dedication to self-destruction or anything of that
... See moreDr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés • Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
For most women between the ages of approximately ten years old to around fifty years old, our nature is cyclic. However, we are raised with the expectation of living and working and behaving like men. We are taught, unrealistically, to expect that the things that fulfil men and meet their needs will also make us happy and contented – and when we
... See moreMiranda Gray • Female Energy Awakening
All women strive to be this unattainable woman - a goddess, a queen, charismatic, charming both men and women. Women love men - but they have an obsession with other women. Comparison and never being enough. It always being just out of reach no matter how much you achieve. There is always better, more. Sometimes you feel you can reach out and touch
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