Girl - independent, free-spirited

I will always enjoy being called a girl.

There are some who f ind the term girl, as referred to a woman, demeaning. When I think about it, however; I was never as free as I was when just a girl.

I don’t find the term insulting. It is inclusive of all the generations of femalehood. (I may have just made that word up, but you get my meaning.)

We go from playing with Barbies to side-eye ing boys to obsessing over men to caring for children and finally to enjoying our independence again.

That’s not to say an adult woman doesn’t have an independent spirit, but her existence, joys and sorrows are in...

 

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