In all times of history we can find women who have excelled among others, we always remember them because they were doing things that seemed impossible for their gender, touch us and arouse admiration to this day.
Today we’re going to talk about two very different women, one was a fighting girl who grew up without listening, talking and seeing, at 19 she had a strong temperament and few people thought she could do anything in life.
- The other was a woman who has struggled with pain all her life.
- Has concentrated all her pain on art and although she cannot be happy.
- She has left us a large collection of works that we have studied and admired to this day.
How many times have you failed to do something because you thought you were incapable?We’ve all missed a lot of opportunities because we think we’re not capable or we don’t have the courage to make a decision at the right time. That’s why we believe Helen Keller is one of the best-selling women who will inspire you. She was born in 1880 and at 19 months contracted an illness that left her unable to see and hear.
“Why just crawl when you feel the need to fly?
-Helen Keller-
Because she did not develop the audition, she did not learn to speak, her family exhausted as many resources as possible in her day, and when she was seven years old she hired an instructor who was also blind, this instructor taught her to read in Braille, communicate with maps. , writes and reads on his lips.
“Safety is first and foremos s
-Helen Keller-
She learned to speak after adulthood and became a fighter and speaker for deaf and visually impaired people. Helen has died at the age of 87 and has left a total of 14 books and more than 475 articles and essays written. The lesson Helen Keller has left us is that it doesn’t matter what the physical limitations are, but the mental limitations we impose ourselves on.
Frida Kahlo is another successful woman who inspires us and is well known in the world, this Mexican woman has shown that even the deepest pain, which keeps him prostrate in a bed, cannot stop talent and ideas. Born in 1907 and since she was a child, her life has been defined by physical pain and illness.
“I used to think I was the strangest person in the world, but then I thought, there are a lot of people like that in the world, there must be someone like me, who feels strange and flawed, just as I feel. And I imagined this person, I figured he was thinking about me too. Well, I hope if you’re that person and you read this, you’ll know yes, it’s true, I’m here and I’m as strange as you are.
-Frida Kahlo-
In 1925 she suffered a serious accident that broke her spine in three and left her practically trapped in a bed, where she began her total immersion in art, which helped her escape the emotional tragedies that accompanied her husband Diego Rivera’s infidelities and inability. take a pregnancy to the end.
“I paint self-portraits because I spend a lot of time alone. I paint myself, because I’m the person I know best. “
-Frida Kahlo-
Thanks to the painting she managed to purge all the pain that caused her, most of her work are self-portraits because she focused on what she knew best: herself. Frida died at the age of 47, leaving some 400 works. of the art that the world studies and admires to this day.
We often grow up with the idea that women have an easier life, a more peaceful path and that we are protected, but the reality is different: it is struggles, obstacles and experiences that shape our character. life is complicated and you won’t be able to face the problems, think of Frida and Helen.