Today, women are constantly fighting for their identity and for reconciling the different roles they play in life.
This fight would be more inspiring if, in today’s society, women’s icons, women in high positions in all sectors of society, were gifted with talent, authenticity and simplicity.
Unfortunately, this is not always the case and the models we find are not the most suitable.
So look back and find inspiration in some women who have left their mark on the collective imagination for their talent, character and determination.
These are clear examples of people who have dedicated their lives to being true to themselves and not to impressing others; left a much deeper mark than expected.
It is the absolute myth of the seventh art and an icon that transcends generations, but the beginning of his career was not easy at all.
He was born into an extremely poor family in Sweden and Greta had to work from an early age.
From the age of 14 he was a billboard in a department store and soon received offers from Hollywood that he was able to take advantage of, but protecting his privacy.
An example of discretion and professionalism, she has always done her best to be a good actress (first in silent films); and did not succumb to million-dollar interview offers about his private life in the written and television press.
Greta Garbo practiced the principle: “Let it be for you and not for others. “
She retired at the age of 36 and lived alone for the rest of her life, as that’s what she wanted, investing her fortune in successful businesses.
She was a great lover of nature, tranquility and her family; he died in New York at the age of 84, leaving a legacy of balance and mystery.
An example of how good education and fidelity to principles also have a place in the entertainment world.
The most famous Mexican in history is a true legend for her paintings, for her passionate personality and her inner world, which she expresses through her art.
His life was marked by endless pain. As a child she suffered from polio that left her one leg thinner than the other and a lot of pain. Fate struck her again with an accident at the age of 18 that changed her life forever.
The bus he was traveling on had an accident and an iron rod came off its structure and pierced his pelvis.
The result was devastating: her spine was broken in three parts, her right leg was broken in eleven parts, her right foot and left shoulder were dislocated, a railing crossed her left hip and left her. vagina.
This accident left her prostrate for a long time and in severe pain, underwent more than thirty surgeries and lived with a plaster corset.
Frida chose painting and writing to express her pain, managed to recover during certain periods and lived passionate romances: the most famous was Diogo Rivera, with whom she underwent several abortions that plunged her into deep sadness.
All his love and frustration were so sensitively expressed in his works that they were touted as a global symbol of the artistic expression of pain in art.
He has died at the age of 47 and every year his human and artistic legacy seems more relevant to the world. Certainly, art is a way of being immortal.
Maria Callas was a soprano of Greek descent who became the most influential opera singer of the 20th century.
His parents were Greek immigrants in New York, where they settled down and had a comfortable standard of living, as their father was a pharmacist and quickly established a thriving business.
Her parents divorced and she returned to Greece with her mother, with whom she did not have a good relationship. Callas later said her mother had been instrumental in weakening certain aspects of her self-esteem because she called her fat, ugly and often compared. her to her sister.
However, her career was like foam, but in a staggered way, because Mary not only wanted to sing in operas with guaranteed success, she wanted to sing in works that conveyed something else.
People commented a lot at the time that he rejected roles that gave instant fame to the women who played them, but trusted their instincts, kept studying and had an enviable career, always guided by their judgment. Finally, they called him “The Guess. “
Musicologist Kurt Pahlen defined his art as “Is your song an open wound that bleeds and gives your vital strength?As if it were the memory of the pain of the world. “
When she met Onassis, she left her husband and, along with the Greek tycoon, organized a major media scandal. Before meeting Onassis, his voice had already dropped in quality, he had lost a lot, and after the breakup with Onassis, the problems. with his vocal cords worsened.
Onassis tried to resume the relationship several times, but Maria had a very strong personality and never forgave her for leaving her that way for Jacqueline Kennedy, even though she remained in love with him.
In the last days of his life, Onassis asked Maria to stay with him and she eventually accompanied him for the rest of his life.
Mary has always been a very sensitive and insecure woman, but of surprising determination and character.
He died at the age of 53 of a heart attack. However, the theory of tranquilizer suicide is not ruled out. Will Mary and the legendary, the Divine, be the sensitive and insecse?They have chosen to rest forever in their city, Paris, after a life of lights and shadows, but above all, of pure feeling.
Did she live alone in her final phase and die alone?” Is it the worst sadness that has no witnesses?