Marilyn Monroe

2008 mixed media

I'm very definitely a woman and I enjoy it.

- Marilyn Monroe (1926 – 1962)

With every year that passes, I enjoy who I am and where I am headed...
Being a woman is a great adventure.
Being a woman is a gift...an honor.

Frida Kahlo

2008 mixed media

Pies para qué los quiero si tengo alas para volar...

Feet why do I need them if I have wings to fly?

- Frida Kahlo (1907-1954)

Do you have wings to fly?
I do...I have enormous wings which rescue me and dare me to continue soaring into my wildest dreams. The more I use my wings, the stronger they become and the further I am able to fly.

Grace Kelly, Princess of Monaco

2008 mixed media

Women's natural role is to be a pillar of the family.

- Grace Kelly, Princess of Monaco (1929-1982)

Our natural role can be anything we want...

Women, we are shape-shifters.

We are flexible beyond measure.

Irene Dunne

2008 mixed media

I know all the swear words. I just don't use them. There are worse things in life than being called a Lady.

- Irene Dunne (1898-1990)

My beautiful mother-in-law, Maria Lourdes is a lady.
Her cousin, Marta is a lady.

These women have an elegant spirit, their lives are illuminated in grace and delicate femininity...

These are two of the strongest women I know...
Being feminine, does not equal being weak.
A lady is not always a damsel in distress...

Marina Nuñez del Prado

2008 mixed media

Mi vida es mi obra:
Siento la inmensa dicha de haber nacido bajo la tutela de los Andes que son la expresión de la fuerza y el milagro cósmico así mi obra expresa el espiritu de mi tierra Andina y el espiritu de mi gente aymara.

- Marina Nuñez del Prado (approximately 1910 -1995)

The art of living...
Are you living your life as if it were a work of art?

Estée Lauder

2008 mixed media

I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.
Time is not on your side, but I am.

- Estée Lauder (1906-2004)

Time is about to birth a new year...

What do you dream of for 2009?

Are you ready to work towards your dreams?

Are you able to PLAY towards your dreams?

Eartha Kitt

2008 mixed media

My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.

- Eartha Kitt (1927-2008)

Eartha Kitt...Cat-Woman...

There is an Eternal Feline in every woman.

She is independent and wild.

She is calm yet protective of her own.

She is fearless...

Maria Lidia Tercero de Sacasa

2008 mixed media of my beloved Grand Mother, my Uca

Entonces...

- Maruca Tercero de Sacasa (1918-2005)

Christmas Eve...

I am remembering my beloved Grand Mother who would light up a room with her smile, her grace and her sense of wonder. Uca was all light, all love, all about family -- all of the time.


Uca IS Christmas...thinking of her, I feel peace on earth and a sense of hope for the coming year...

Wallis Simpson, The Duchess of Windsor

2008 mixed media

For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat.

- Wallis Simpson, The Duchess of Windsor (1896-1986)

A gallant spirit...
I love the sound of that...
Every woman I know has a superior level of fearlessness.

My new baby sits on my lap as I type. I still need to have breakfast and nurse him. I am not feeling very gallant at the moment, but rather as if I were in some sort of physical and emotional marathon...and I am grateful for every moment...

Jean Rhys

2008 mixed media

I guess I write about myself because that’s all I really know.

- Jean Rhys (1890 – 1979)

How well do we know ourselves?
What do we REALLY know about ourselves, about others about anything?

I write about myself.
I write to myself.
I write for My Self.

Soujourner Truth

2008 mixed media

And ain't I a woman?...If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again! And now they is asking to do it. The men better let them.

- Soujourner Truth (around 1797-1883)

Are we strong enough to turn the world upside down?

Together we are...YES...together we shall...we must...for our children's children...

Lillian Carter

2008 mixed media

If I had one wish for my children, it would be that each of them would reach for goals that have meaning for them as individuals.

- Lillian Carter (1898-1983)

If you had one wish for the future generation, what would that be?

...please be patient

2008 - my latest and greatest creation

I am a New Mom...
I am still writing every single day...
and promise to post new blogs in a near future.

While you wait, why not go back and re-read some posts from earlier this year or from last year...Thank you for your patience.

Sophie Tucker

2008 mixed media

Success in show business depends on your ability to make and keep friends.

- Sophie Tucker (1884-1966)

Do you have the ability to make and keep friends?

Isabella Beecher Hooker

2008 mixed media

My interest in the woman question began soon after my marriage when my husband, a patient young lawyer waiting for business, invited me to bring my knitting work to his office every day, where he would read to me from his law books, and in the evenings I might read literature to him, whose weak eyes forbade his ever using them in the evening. For four years we kept on this even tenor of our way, and to it I owe my intelligent interest in public affairs and a certain discipline of mind - since I never attended school or college after my sixteenth year.

- Isabella Beecher Hooker (1822 – 1907)

Who has been your greatest teacher? I recently gave birth to mine...

Theodora, Empress of Byzantium

2008 mixed media

For a king, death is better than dethronement and exile.

- Theodora, Empress of Byzantium (c. 497-548)

Well, speaking from a personal experience, exile is a death of sorts...and a rebirth as well.

Lorraine Hansberry

2008 mixed media

Never be afraid to sit awhile and think.

- Lorraine Hansberry (1930-1965)

What do you think about every day?

Marjorie Stewart Joyner

2008 mixed media

It all came to me in the kitchen when I was making a pot roast one day, looking at these long, thin rods that held the pot roast together and heated it up from the inside. I figured you could use them like hair rollers, then heat them up to cook a permanent curl into the hair.

- Marjorie Stewart Joyner
(1896-1994)

Do you dare to follow through with ideas?

I try to...regardless of what others think or say. I listen to my soul, to my heart, to my body and to my mind...perhaps in that order...

Edith Grön

2008 mixed media

Si bien fue muy provechosa mi estancia en NY, sentía la nostalgia de mi Nicaragua. Me hacían falta desde las brisas del lago hasta el sonido de sus campanas.

- Edith Grön (1917-1990)

What is it about Nicaragua that causes such nostalgia in me? I have not been back to my motherland in months and am anxious to return as soon as possible...

Norma Shearer

2008 mixed media

It is impossible to get anything made or accomplished without stepping on some toes; enemies are inevitable when one is a doer.

- Norma Shearer (1902-1983)

Oh what pointy toes some have...