May this dress remind us to be the heroine and/or hero of our lives ...

“Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.” 

Nora Ephron

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Nora Ephron

Nora Ephron left a joyful mark upon the world, tirelessly generating smart, exuberant entertainments in a variety of idioms, from movies (Julie & Julia, When Harry Met Sally … , Sleepless in Seattle) to plays (Love, Loss, and What I Wore, written with her sister Delia) to first-person nonfiction (Wallflower at the Orgy, I Feel Bad About My Neck). But she was also a caustic wit, and, in her younger days, an elbows-out journalist unafraid to make enemies. All of these iterations of Ephron, who died in 2012, are vividly on display in Everything Is Copy, a brisk, sparky new documentary co-directed by her elder son, the New York Times reporter Jacob Bernstein, and Nick Hooker. The movie (one of whose executive producers is the editor of this magazine) premieres on HBO in March.

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2016/01/nora-ephron-documentary-everything-is-copy

Nora Ephron May 19, 1941 – June 26, 2012) was an American journalist, writer, and filmmaker. She is best known for her romantic comedy films and was nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Writing: for Silkwood (1983), When Harry Met Sally...(1989), and Sleepless in Seattle (1993). She won a BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay for When Harry Met Sally.... She sometimes wrote with her sister Delia Ephron. Her last film was Julie & Julia (2009).^[2] Her first produced play, Imaginary Friends (2002), was honored as one of the ten best plays of the 2002–03 New York theatre season.^[3] She also co-authored the Drama Desk Award-winning theatrical production Love, Loss, and What I Wore.^[2][4] In 2013, Ephron received a posthumous Tony Award nomination for Best Play for Lucky Guy.^[5]

After graduating from Wellesley College in 1962, Ephron worked briefly as an intern in the White House of President John F. Kennedy.^[16] She also applied to be a writer at Newsweek. After she was told they did not hire women writers, she accepted a position as a mail girl.^[17]

After eventually quitting Newsweek because she was not allowed to write, Ephron participated in a class action lawsuit against the magazine for sexual discrimination, described in the book The Good Girls Revolt: How the Women of Newsweek Sued Their Bosses and Changed the Workplace by Lynn Povich, and both the lawsuit and Ephron's role were fictionalized in a 2016 Amazon series by the similar main title Good Girls Revolt.^[18]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nora_Ephron

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day93: you have the right to feel safe!!!

You have the RIGHT, 

the responsibility, in fact, 

the OBLIGATION to yourself 

to feel/be safe,

to be respected,

to be heard,

to feel good about who you are and what you do!

If there are people in your life that challenge any of these rights, 

you have the obligation to either walk away from this toxic person/relationship, or if you can't leave the situation, then you need to get help from someone who has power in the situation.

You have every right to ask for and receive what is due to you. In our society, we are still burdened with the theory that a woman is a bitch if she demands to be treated fairly and stands up for herself.  these views are changing, but there is a long way to go and with the current political landscape, women have been dealt a major setback. 

So I want you to remember that you have every right to feel safe, heard, appreciated, respected, and I hope you are fortunate enough to feel loved, by other people than ME!! Because I am sure you know that I LOVE you both to the moon and then to infinity!!!

love, mom

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