Go see the movie Bridesmaids. Support a cast of all women, a female comedian as the leading lady, and a more diverse image of women than is usually shown in major motion pictures!

I was walking home from yoga yesterday and came across a plaque saying that Emma Lazarus had lived in this building in my neighborhood. When I got home I looked her up. She's a pretty awesome lady. Lived in New York in the early 1800's, was a Jewish immigrant, created a lot of programs to help fellow Jewish immigrants and was a renowned poet. She wrote this poem for the plaque on the Statue of Liberty. 

The New Colossus

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,

With conquering limbs astride from land to land;

Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand

A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame

Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name

Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand

Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command

The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.

"Keep ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she

With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,

Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,

The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.

Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,

I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

A collage I did about my great grandmother.