We are the girls...

"We are the girls with anxiety disorders, filled appointment books, five-year plans. We are peacemakers, the do-gooders, the givers, the savers. We are on time, overly prepared, well read and witty, intellectually curious, always moving.


We are living contradictions. We are socially conscious, multiculti, and anticorporate, but we still shop at Gap and Banana Republic. We make documentary films, knit sweaters, and DJ. We are 'social smokers,' secretly happy that the cigarettes might speed up our metabolisms, hoping they won't kill us in the process.

We pride ourselves on getting as little sleep as possible and thrive on self-deprivation. We drink coffee, a lot of it. We are on birth control, Prozac, and multivitamins. We do strip aerobics, hot yoga, always go five more minutes than the limit... on any exercise machine at the gym.

We are relentless, judgemental of ourselves, and forgiving of others. We never want to be as passive -aggressive as our mothers, never want to marry men as uninspired as our fathers. We carry the old world of guilt - center of families, keeper of relationships, caretaker of friends - with the new world of control/ambition - rich, independent, powerful.


We are the daughters of feminists who said 'You can be anything' and we heard 'You have to be everything."

via DIANA RYU via...