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Better frame of mind the last two days, so apparently I was wrong the depression bits are in part due to hormonal fluctuations. Actually mostly due to them - perimenupause sucks. Truly sucks.
I think I've fallen in love with The Fault in Our Stars...or maybe it's just come at me at the right time. I've been pondering today whether...certain stories demand for us to watch or read them because there's something inside them that resolves an issue or problem we are struggling with, something inside ourselves. They speak to our souls. The difficulty is...what we see in them no one else may see. Because I believe no one reads or watches the same story in the same way, that we all focus on different bits and pieces or wrinkles inside of it. Almost as if we have watched and read entirely different stories, even though we know this is not the case.
Sometimes I think what I love most about stories is the multiple interpretations or ways of reading them. Even if that can often drive me crazy.
According to my flist it is International Women's Day or Women's Awareness Day - to commenorate the female workers and protesters who have changed the world.
Thinking about female writers, leaders, etc...who I've admired:
1. Jane Austen and Louisa May Alcott - single women who forged a career for themselves as writers, and wrote about strong and smart women.
2. Lillian Hellman who wrote about lesbians in the haunting The Children's Hour play, only to be followed by equally brave Jeanette Wintersen.
3. Queen Elizabeth - who ruled England without ever bending, or breaking. Queen Victoria who did the same. Both had time periods named after them.
4. Katherine Hepburn who played smart, witty, capable career women and socialites.
5. Rosa Parks who refused to move from her seat on a bus and changed the course of history.
6. Elizabeth Cady Stanton - who insisted on having the right to vote.
7. Octavia Butler - who dared to be a black female science fiction writer and broke through the barriers.
8. Maya Angelo - who was the first black woman to direct a film and wrote about her life with wit and empathy
9. Julie Taymor - who as a female puppeteer, also became a top director on Broadway
and in film.
10. Sigourney Weaver who made tough tall women smart and beautiful and changed the sci-fi horror landscape.
Female characters, fictional, that I admire and find inspiring:
1. Hazel Grace in The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
2. Buffy Summers in the television serial Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
3. Aeryn Sun in Farscape series.
4. Diane Lockhardt in The Good Wife - savvy and complex lawyer and head of law firm
5. Major Kira in DS9
6. Bailey, a black woman surgeon in Grey's Anatomy
7. Laura Roslyn in BattleStar Galatica
8. Ripley in Aliens
9. Sarah Connor in The Sarah Connor Chronicles
10. Ayra Stark, Asha, and Dany Taragaryn in The Song of Ice and Fire
11. Katniss Everdeen and Rue in The Hunger Games
Name yours?
I think I've fallen in love with The Fault in Our Stars...or maybe it's just come at me at the right time. I've been pondering today whether...certain stories demand for us to watch or read them because there's something inside them that resolves an issue or problem we are struggling with, something inside ourselves. They speak to our souls. The difficulty is...what we see in them no one else may see. Because I believe no one reads or watches the same story in the same way, that we all focus on different bits and pieces or wrinkles inside of it. Almost as if we have watched and read entirely different stories, even though we know this is not the case.
Sometimes I think what I love most about stories is the multiple interpretations or ways of reading them. Even if that can often drive me crazy.
According to my flist it is International Women's Day or Women's Awareness Day - to commenorate the female workers and protesters who have changed the world.
Thinking about female writers, leaders, etc...who I've admired:
1. Jane Austen and Louisa May Alcott - single women who forged a career for themselves as writers, and wrote about strong and smart women.
2. Lillian Hellman who wrote about lesbians in the haunting The Children's Hour play, only to be followed by equally brave Jeanette Wintersen.
3. Queen Elizabeth - who ruled England without ever bending, or breaking. Queen Victoria who did the same. Both had time periods named after them.
4. Katherine Hepburn who played smart, witty, capable career women and socialites.
5. Rosa Parks who refused to move from her seat on a bus and changed the course of history.
6. Elizabeth Cady Stanton - who insisted on having the right to vote.
7. Octavia Butler - who dared to be a black female science fiction writer and broke through the barriers.
8. Maya Angelo - who was the first black woman to direct a film and wrote about her life with wit and empathy
9. Julie Taymor - who as a female puppeteer, also became a top director on Broadway
and in film.
10. Sigourney Weaver who made tough tall women smart and beautiful and changed the sci-fi horror landscape.
Female characters, fictional, that I admire and find inspiring:
1. Hazel Grace in The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
2. Buffy Summers in the television serial Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
3. Aeryn Sun in Farscape series.
4. Diane Lockhardt in The Good Wife - savvy and complex lawyer and head of law firm
5. Major Kira in DS9
6. Bailey, a black woman surgeon in Grey's Anatomy
7. Laura Roslyn in BattleStar Galatica
8. Ripley in Aliens
9. Sarah Connor in The Sarah Connor Chronicles
10. Ayra Stark, Asha, and Dany Taragaryn in The Song of Ice and Fire
11. Katniss Everdeen and Rue in The Hunger Games
Name yours?