Common Reality

Recording Agniola's story and listening to it one more time, I felt the power of her parents' love for each other, the love they shared with her, and the love in which the whole family basked.

The love was palpable.
Still very much there.
Soothing. Healing. Empowering.

Love never dies.

Episode 6. On Grief, Love and Renewal.

Legendary quote from French philosopher Simone de Beauvoir.

How much of feminine attributes are natural? And how much is a byproduct of what societies demand from women?

Are you fundamentally soft and delicate? Are you non-confrontational? Do you prefer to be vs. to do? Are your dreams and wants mostly focused on family?

And what if all those things were true for you as a woman, why do they resonate as ''suboptimal''? Who decided that? Why isn't softness just as powerful as hardness? Why don't we find creating and raising a phenomenal human being just as worthy as making something, or starting a company? Who made the feminine second-class?