The challenge I put on myself is so great that the person I live with feels himself challenged. I know that Im not the easiest person to live with. Today, I realize at 43 my density is to be cognizant of my worth and to move forward with the beauty that God instilled in me. Maya Angelou, quote from Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women. I further fell into a hole of depression, a butterfly indeed but a cocoon mind set. Ive learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. As I began to grow as a Young woman my lack of love for myself caused me to self-sabotage and run off good young men and gravitate to those who would berate me and belittle me. My parents wanted me to have the possessions they were not brought up with.Īs life proceeded, I never felt good about myself and I perceived myself as ugly, my hips and butt too large and I allowed the enemy of my soul to year by year haunt me and my self worth plummeted. The poem was originally written to admire the beauty and self-confidence of a woman. Maya breaks the stereotypes associated with women and presents a new definition of a phenomenal woman, who is beautiful despite her skin color. I had no spiritual being and my life was exposed to the material matters and outwardly appearances seemed to be what mattered most. Popularity: Phenomenal Woman by Maya Angelou is one of the finest poems published in 1995. I believed early in life that I would not amount to much, stupid, fat and like water being soaked up in a sponge, I focused on the negative and not the positive. These four poems, Phenomenal Woman, Still I Rise, Weekend Glory, and Our Grandmothers, are among the most remembered and acclaimed of Maya Angelous poems. A collection of beloved poems about women from the iconic Maya Angelou. I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size Random House Publishing Group, Poetry - 32 pages. Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.
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