MayBE 2023: Day twenty-four.

On Woman.

There is no good answer to how to be a woman; the art may instead lie in how we refuse the question.

― Rebecca Solnit, The Mother of All Questions

But how can I want my independence and feel taken care of? How can I want to stay small and safe while yearning to be big and courageous? How can I be vulnerable but never want to be hurt? How did I want this yesterday and not want this today?

These are some questions I discussed with one of my daughters back in 2019. Of course, I question them still and find my own way to resolve these tensions.

TODAY’S PROMPT:

• What does it mean to be powerful? In what ways have you been silenced?
  • Draw/paint your name.
    • Copy any quote above.
    • List all the aspects of your dual nature.