An Open Letter to Molly Hooper
- Allie
- Mar 8, 2017
- 2 min read
Dear Molly,
Happy Woman’s Day. I hope that, wherever you are, you’re having a phenomenal time.
Have you ever wondered what does it take to be a strong woman? I look around and it seems that in order to be strong, we need to be careless. We need to build a wall that is so impenetrable to let out everyone else. It looks like feelings make us weak. If it is true, then I am the weakest human in the universe. But then I look at you, and I think that it is impossible. You’re the strongest woman because you’re not afraid of your feelings. You never suffocate them. You never run away. You let them live, breathe, even when they hurt you.
I want my daughter to be like you. I want her to be smart, kind, full of light. I want my daughter to go on a journey to discover that she does count and that her value is immense. I want her to keep her heart be wide open, I want her to be able to understand when someone deserves her unconditional love and to love them as hard as she can, even when they can’t love her back in the same way, because “loving someone after years is not reductive, retrograde, anti-feminist or weak”.
I want her to embrace love, not to push it away, even when it hurts. Because love is never a burden, never a sickness but it has the greatest healing power of all. Love is strength, solace and shelter. It is empowering. I want my daughter to be in love with love, to be ready to fight for it, to protect it.
Because it makes you invincible. And I want her to learn it from you.
With love,
Allie.
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