sophie's fair

Belle (c) Walt Disney Co

aaahhh... the groans of people pining away over lost love. it's unbearable, isnt it? cheerful voices oppress you with, "get over it and move on" -- but what to do between ga(s)ps?? be busy, hang out with friends, never watch a julia roberts movie or listen to a linda eder song or smell a burberry weekend aftershave. once this kind of tragedy hits you, bam!, you restrict your senses to nontemporal impressions.
i loved bridget jones's diary. bridget is a typical singleton who knows the darkest despair, and yet, still hopes for wonderful possibilities. she tries to lose weight while keeping a record-breaking drinking spree with friends, goes on demeaning dates, yet develops "inner poise and authority and sense of self as a woman of substance, complete without boyfriend, as best way to obtain boyfriend".

I am a child of Cosmopolitan culture, have been traumatized by supermodels and too many quizzes and know that neither my personality nor my body is up to it if left to its own devices. I can't take the pressure.
-- Bridget Jones

how many of us women (or girls) can be that honest?
i seriously hate it when someone calls me "babe" or "chick" because it demoralizes my character... c'mon guys, you are far too imaginative not to be able to think of other terms of endearment.
i read a blog a while back and i couldnt believe that a woman could be so cruel taking a cheap shot at another woman's body -- not all women are size 4, silly.

Always remember that true beauty comes from within -- from within bottles, jars, compacts, and tubes.
-- Peter's Almanac

women teeter between independence and a pathetic girlie urge to be all things to men. i think that men should be more appreciative of what women do for them, instead of being a bunch of jackasses. but just as women arent all size 4, not all men are jerks. i have great guy friends who understand what women go through -- to at least, look like natalie portman in the dark. helen fielding, author of bridget jones's diary, confessed that she "was really, really surprised at all the women who wrote in saying they identified with bridget because a lot of her thoughts are very paranoid, and when you realise that so many women have the same thoughts, it's massively reassuring but at the same time alarming."

Man makes holy what he believes, as he makes beautiful what he loves.
-- Ernest Renan

well girl, beauty is in the eye of the beholder so keep those clothes on and let him practice his imagination til he puts his ring on your finger.

Like a lily among thorns
is my darling among the maidens.
-- Song of Songs 2:2

It's beauty that captures your attention; personality which captures your heart.
-- Anonymous

Sonya: No! No! When a woman isn't beautiful, people tell her. "You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair."
-- Anton Chekhov

A thing of beauty is a joy forever; it's loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.
-- John Keats

A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life; in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
-- Nadine Gordimer

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
-- Kahlil Gibran

The stars of midnight shall be dear
To her; and she shall lean her ear
In many a secret place
Where rivulets dance their wayward round,
And beauty born of murmuring sound
Shall pass into her face.
Three years she grew in Sun and Shower
-- William Wordsworth

and what does our romeo have to say?

Did my heart love till now?
Forswear it sight,
For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night.
-- Romeo & Juliet

by the way, my BMI* is 19.9. we love men, but our health comes first.

*Body Mass Index is a tool for indicating weight status in adults. While it correlates with body fat, the relation between fatness and BMI differs with age and gender. For example, women are more likely to have a higher percent of body fat than men for the same BMI. Normal range is 18.5 – 24.9.