When I was growing up, no one could get away with telling me I couldn’t do something “because you’re a girl.” In fact, if someone wanted me not to do something, that was the worst thing they could say: It practically guaranteed I’d run out and try to do it.
What’s the link between the woman who boldly fights for social justice and the one who boldly has fun? Both are acting powerfully, because each is rejecting preconceived notions of how females ‘should’ behave.
Enjoy being bold, and if that is scary at first, marvel at your ability to walk through fear.
For any one group to be free, everyone needs to be free no one should be stopped-not by stereotyping, not by violence-from expressing his or her full range of emotions and abilities.