Words to live by ...
I just discovered that Meryl Streep is more than an amazing actress with an arresting face and a very private personal life. In the current (January 2010) Vanity Fair she opened up about her family, her acting roles. And to me, most importantly, about outgrowing the societal constraints that have long insisted to all of us females that we be "appealing" -- which in my book has meant soft, pretty, pliant, self-sacrificing workers, friends and helpmates.
But Meryl, now 60 and reveling in it, said with a snort of laughter: "I can't remember the last time I really worried about being appealing." Then more seriously, "It's freeing as an actress ... I don't think it's something anyone can tell you. I think you just have to get sick of hearing the accommodations in your approach to things ... the way people have to get sick of drinking of drugs before they stop. As there begins to be less time ahead of you, you want to be exactly who you are, without making it easier for everyone else."
Hmh, bright, smart, emotional, sensual/sexual, erotic/exotic, complex, contradictory. Music and writing sustaining factors. With calendar years a mismatch to interior life, self-sufficient yet loving to lean. Ah yes, mellowing into exactly who we are!
Positively,
Carolan
But Meryl, now 60 and reveling in it, said with a snort of laughter: "I can't remember the last time I really worried about being appealing." Then more seriously, "It's freeing as an actress ... I don't think it's something anyone can tell you. I think you just have to get sick of hearing the accommodations in your approach to things ... the way people have to get sick of drinking of drugs before they stop. As there begins to be less time ahead of you, you want to be exactly who you are, without making it easier for everyone else."
Hmh, bright, smart, emotional, sensual/sexual, erotic/exotic, complex, contradictory. Music and writing sustaining factors. With calendar years a mismatch to interior life, self-sufficient yet loving to lean. Ah yes, mellowing into exactly who we are!
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Positively,
Carolan
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