Once upon a time I was obsessed with numbers. My age,weight and dress size. After all, the powers that be have been telling us for years what and who is beautiful. The media is always ready to plaster unflattering photos of celebrities when they gain a few pounds, with equally unflattering and down right mean captions.

Long ago I made peace with the fact that I would get older and I would never, again,weigh 125 pounds. I won't grace the cover of Vogue, Elle or Cosmo, and I'm okay with that. Thank goodness for a man who loves each and every one of my curves!

I love this poem by Maya Angelou and dedicate it PHENOMENAL women everywhere!


PHENOMENAL WOMAN
by Maya Angelou

Pretty women wonder where my secret lies
I'm not cute or built to suit a model's fashion size
But when I start to tell them
They think I'm telling lies.
I say
It's in the reach of my arms
The span of my hips
The stride of my steps
The curl of my lips.
I'm a woman
Phenomenally
Phenomenal woman
That's me.

I walk into a room
Just as cool as you please
And to a man
The fellows stand or
Fall down on their knees
Then they swarm around me
A hive of honey bees.
I say
It's the fire in my eyes
And the flash of my teeth
The swing of my waist
And the joy in my feet.
I'm a woman
Phenomenally
Phenomenal woman
That's me.

Men themselves have wondered
What they see in me
They try so much
But they can't touch
My inner mystery.
When I try to show them
They say they still can't see.
I say
It's in the arch of my back
The sun of my smile
The ride of my breasts
The grace of my style.
I'm a woman
Phenomenally
Phenomenal woman
That's me.

Now you understand
Just why my head's not bowed
I don't shout or jump about
Or have to talk real loud
When you see me passing
It ought to make you proud.
I say
It's in the click of my heels
The bend of my hair
The palm of my hand
The need for my care.
'Cause I'm a woman
Phenomenally
Phenomenal woman
That's me.

Curve: The loveliest distance between two points. ~Mae West

I have an idea that the phrase "weaker sex" was coined by some woman to disarm some man she was preparing to overwhelm. ~Ogden Nash

One is not born a woman, one becomes one. ~Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1949


Woman didn't get the short end of every stick. At least God gave us handheld massaging shower heads. ~Rhann Morgan

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