一位母亲写给女儿的信.ppt

一位母亲写给女儿的信,关于美丽的事实和真相? Dear Girls, You're so young right now, but I hope these letters will be helpful to you one day when you're older. There is so much I wish I could ask my mother now that I am a grown woman. There is so much we never got to talk about. I'm planning on being around for you well into your lives and adulthood, but even so ?, I think having these letters will be useful in some way . Who knows how things might change down the road, and at least you'll have your 34-year-old mother's thoughts down on paper. ? Anyway , I want this letter to be about beauty and my relationship to it. I feel this enormous responsibility, as a mother of two little girls, to lead you down a path that is relatively healthy when es to beauty and self image. In a lot of women's eyes I've probably already failed in that respect due to the amount of pink- princess-Barbiemess 芭比娃娃 cluttering up Vera's room right now. ? But I will say this about Barbie (and all the rest of that princess garbage): I played with that stuff for a solid decade when I was growing up and here I am now at a healthy weight with a healthy outlook about my body and image. ? I have a masters degree and have a essful career and a published book. If Barbie were really so damaging to my femininity 女性气质 and self-image I highly doubt I could list all of the latter as plishments 成就. ? But I get it too. It ‘ s hard for women to maintain a healthy self-image. It ’ s hard not to obsess 着迷 over our weight and to wish we could afford more stylish clothes. It ‘ s hard not to covet 垂涎 someone else ’ s hair or hips or eyelashes 睫毛, and to spend inordinate 过度的 amounts of time trying to achieve looks that we were never suited for in the first place. ? I have girlfriends around whom I have to brace 支撑 myself to see, because even though I love them, just being around them makes me self-conscious . I look at old pictures of my mother and wo