Katherine Dyer.

KATHERINE When I grow up I want to be as strong as Katherine. It’s often cliche to call a woman strong now because somehow it’s lost it’s meaning. Let me clarify, I want to be powerful, resilient, intense, extreme, willfull, and persistent like Katherine. She’s headstrong and fierce, what she puts her mine to, she does. But you know, we’ve also forgotten what strong actually looks like. Because the strongest person in the room isn’t necessarily the most powerful- strength requires vulnerability and tenderness. I want the kind of strength that lets me get back up again, AND looks back to say “that was hard.” And doesn’t act like it was nothing- because it wasn’t. I want the resiliency and willfulness to not survive, but to thrive- to find what is worth living for and fighting for. To have the strength that doesn’t work or preform for recognition- humble and steady. Katherine is a Virago- which just like most things describing women, is a term that has been turned into an insult. HOWEVER the original Latin meaning of the word virāgō was a woman demonstrating variously, vigorous, heroic attributes. It became an insult because having these qualities was seen as too masculine for maidens. Well lol, cause most of the strong and heroic people I know are women. I hope I grow up to have Katherine’s strength and tenderness.