Let girls wear their hair short and carry their voices deep and rugged and full of sour words their mothers told them were bad for young women.
Let them have thick eyebrows and unshaven legs and heavy hearts full of sadness for the bodies they were told to hate, but instead they love in defiance.
Let them have square jaws and powerful noses and sultry laughs and let them not be afraid to tell the world how happy they are through their laughter.
Let them be “fat” and tall, short and apple shaped and everything they were told was “wrong” because they refuse to become less than what they are for anyone.
Let girls be “ugly” beautiful as they were meant to be.
Nicole M. (Let Girls be “Ugly” Beautiful)