# @kirstenalana on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/BgFRl7GF6XR
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/2429996-kirstenalana-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/613f0916ea.jpg
- **Posted:** 2018-03-09T00:30:47.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Kirsten Alana (@KirstenAlana) — https://gondola.cc/KirstenAlana

## Caption

Dedicating this on #iwd2018 #internationalwomensday to all my female friends and colleagues, to the incredible women I’ve met as I’ve traveled the world, to the women leading movements that will change the world as we know it and to the women in my family — so many of whom have faced more storms than one life can handle and yet who simply seem to turn into the wind and keep on keeping on; with courage, grace and humility all at the same time. Here’s to you for inspiring me every day but especially today 💖 And I love this passage about multidimensional ‘She’ by Clarissa Pinkola Estés, that has been banging around in my head since the day I took this photo: “A woman may crave to be near water, or be belly down, her face in the earth, smelling the wild smell. She might have to drive into the wind. She may have to plant something, pull things out of the ground or put them into the ground. She may have to knead and bake, rapt in dough up to her elbows. She may have to trek into the hills, leaping from rock to rock trying out her voice against the mountain. She may need hours of starry nights where the stars are like face powder spilt on a black marble floor. She may feel she will die if she doesn’t dance naked in a thunderstorm, sit in perfect silence, return home ink-stained, paint-stained, tear-stained, moon-stained...” 💗 #internationalwomensday2018

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