Sometime In My Second Year At Brown

Getting To A Place Where I Am Comfortable Saying Things Was Hard-earned For Me. I've Chewed On The Ground Glass Of My Own Experience. I Saw Gloria Steinem Speak, And I Was Just Like, Shut The Front Door. She Was Saying That She Didn't Come Into Her Own Until Her 40s, And She Was Asking Herself The Question, Why Should She Have To Get Married? And I Just Thank God Someone Asked That Question, Right? I Think We're The First Generation Of Women Asking Ourselves Certain Questions And Deciding For Ourselves.

I'm Extremely Blessed To Have The Extraordinary Mother That I Have, And I Don't Mean Diana Ross, I Mean The Mother. My Mom Paved A Road That Didn't Exist, As Did Oprah.

Somehow [kenya Bariss] Has Figured Out How To Explore These Very Weighty, Sticky, Sharp Topics, And Still Be Funny And Not Make Fun Of The Topic.

I Wanted Bow's Hair And Makeup And Clothing To Look Like A Woman Who Has Four Children, A Career, And A Full Life. For Example, She Won't Wear Eyeshadow Unless She's Going Out. Because It Takes A Lot Of Time To Put Eyeshadow On. She's A Woman Who Has Style, But It's All About Functionality - She Grabs Stuff From Her Closet.

We All, As Women, Need To Continue To Change Our Gaze From How We Are Seen To How We Are Seeing.