“I am obsessed with becoming a woman comfortable in her skin.”

- Sandra Cisneros

Woman with Bird in Her Hair
by Betye Saar, 2010

Happy International Womans Day!!

Don’t be afraid to bloom...it's natural.

You are a woman. Skin and bones, veins and nerves, hair and sweat. You are not made of metaphors. Not apologies, not excuses.

-- Sarah Kay, excerpt from “The Type”
 (Source: larmoyante)

Perfect?

This image did the rounds on twitter last week with plenty of comparison with the current female body ideals. It's taken from Time magazines definition of a perfect body in 1955. 

She's gorgeous, but really?!? Can we stop now with the idea that there is a 'perfect body' or a body that represents 'real women'. There shouldn't really be a definition at all, should there? 

Beverly Johnson

Beverly Johnson, one of the first female climbers of El Capitan.