Madeleine Black

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We are not defined by what knocks us down - we are defined by how we get back up

We are not defined by what knocks us down - we are defined by how e get back up

watch moms pick up, put down, lift, swing, load and carry fairly large loads all the time. We call these loads ‘children.’ Yet, when we get to the gym, we seem to think a woman needs to use very light loads. Like Milo and his calf, perhaps we should start women off with an eight-pound weight and progress upwards as the child grows.

If you didn't remember something happening, was it because it never had happened? Or because you wished it hadn't?

We were kept pure for men, and then broken in by them. And what happened to us in the meantime was completely irrelevant in the pursuit of their pleasure, or their integrity, their masculinity. Were females really valued so little? Would my own daughters face the same fate?