Yay for International Women's Day!

Happy International Women's Day!  Today, celebrate the amazing women in your life.  Do something to cheer on a fellow female.  Give a compliment to a stranger.  Help out a neighbor.  Call your mother.  Support female-owned businesses.  Grab coffee with your best friend.  Have wine night with the gals.  Blast your favorite female artists (Florence and the Machine, Haim, Adele, Beyonce, Lana Del Rey, Serena Ryder, Paloma Faith, Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga to name a few...).  Remember, the future is female so a little bit of raising each other up can go a long way.  Today (and honestly, everyday), I'm truly grateful for the strong, supportive, encouraging, courageous, loving, and inspiring women in my life.  

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Below, you'll see a collection of strong women who I admire and look up to.  How are you celebrating International Women's Day today?

"Nothing is impossible.  The work itself says 'I'm Possible.'" - Audrey Hepburn

"You must never be fearful of what you are doing when it is right." - Rosa Parks

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." - Maya Angelou

"A girl should be two things: who and what she wants." - Coco Chanel

"Every great dream begins with a dreamer.  Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world." - Harriet Tubman

"Do things for people not because of who they are or what they do in return, but because of who you are." - Mother Teresa

"The most effective way to do it, is to do it!" - Amelia Earhart

"I will not be triumphed over." - Cleopatra VII

"Be happy with what you have while working for what you want." - Helen Keller

"We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same." - Anne Frank

"Men, their rights, and nothing more; Women, their rights, and nothing less." - Susan B. Anthony

Photo Sources:
Audrey Hepburn, Rosa Parks, Maya Angelou, Coco Chanel, Harriet Tubman, Mother Teresa, Amelia Earhart, Cleopatra, Helen Keller, Anne Frank, Susan B. Anthony

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If Holly Golightly Lived in the Modern Day.

 

We all know the iconic photographs of Audrey Hepburn gazing in to the NYC Tiffany’s window with her coffee and croissant in hand. This classic lush of a socialite has been one of my idols for years and so often, I try to imagine what her life would be like in present day. Most of us probably know the story line of Breakfast at Tiffany’s. Struggling writer, Paul Varjak, moves in to a new NYC apartment and becomes fascinated with his stunning, quirky, of the glitterati neighbor, Ms. Holly Golightly, and her lifestyle. Holly is capable of lighting up a room with her New York early sixties energy, ridiculous charm, and sexy, sophisticated aura. All that being said, beyond the cat-eye sunglasses, long cigarette holder, free-spirit beauty is a regular woman, who can easily turn in to a sweetly vulnerable mess, never knowing exactly what she wants.

Modern Day Holly Golightly by missallierae featuring oliver goldsmith sunglasses  

"Well, when I get it the only thing that does any good is to jump in a cab and go to Tiffany's. Calms me down right away. The quietness and the proud look of it; nothing very bad could happen to you there. If I could find a real-life place that'd make me feel like Tiffany's, then - then I'd buy some furniture and give the cat a name!"

 

 

 

Holly: I'll tell you one thing, Fred, darling... I'd marry you for your money in a minute. Would you marry me for my money? Paul: In a minute. Holly: I guess it's pretty lucky neither of us is rich, huh? Paul: Yeah.
 

Holly Golightly by missallierae featuring wedding jewelry

 

Holly: Thursday! It can't be! It's too gruesome!

Paul: What's so gruesome about Thursday?

Holly: Nothing, except I can never remember when it's coming up.
 

 

"I've got to do something about the way I look. I mean a girl just can't go to Sing Sing with a green face."
 

 

"Promise me one thing: don't take me home until I'm drunk - very drunk indeed."

 

Modern Day Holly Golightly by missallierae featuring a fragrance

 

Although her apartment was very bare, it had many peculiar qualities. I imagine today, it would be an eclectic mix of new glamour and vintage accessories here and there.

One day, I truthfully believe that I will own my own clawfoot bathtub sofa.  Want one also?  Here's a great DIY tutorial I stumbled upon.

Since I'm obsessed with the movie, I realized I had never seen a Holly Golightly Halloween costume in person...so that is precisely what I was for Halloween 2012.  My friends and I attended the Hallow-bash at the Lemp Mansion, and I'm proud to say that I was the only Holly Golightly present, Cat and all.

 

 

"I'm like cat here, a no-name slob. We belong to nobody, and nobody belongs to us. We don't even belong to each other."