About Self-Love
Let me begin with a quote by Diana Vreeland. I found this on Cosmopolitan's Snapchat several years ago. "You do not have to be pretty. You do not owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your boyfriend/spouse/partner, not to your co-workers, especially not to random men on the street. You don't owe it to your mother, you don't owe it to your children, you don't owe it to civilization in general. Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked 'female' . " To me, those words feel super empowering. I don't know why, but each time I read it, I feel liberated, as if I have the power to do anything, to be anything and to look like anything I wanted to. I feel like I can say "screw you all" aloud to the whole world. And I think, self-love, should actually be like that. Liberating, because we accept what we are. I know because it took 19 years of my life to discover what self-love is (and I'm still learning). Y