Audrey Hepburn, a word for elegance and perfection.
"How do you stay elegant and beautiful?"
She answered -
"If you want graceful lips, speak kindly; if you want lovely eyes, see the good in others; have a slim figure, give your food to the hungry; have a graceful posture, and when you walk, remember that pedestrians are not only you person."
This is the kind of grace that belonged to Hepburn.
And modern women, they are full of self-confidence, self-improvement and independence; do not flatter, do not follow blindly, not vain; goodwill and understanding, gentle but not trapped in love, the heart is open.
This is their elegance.
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Elegance is the only beauty that does not fade
Last weekend, Mr. Polar Bear and I were in a bookstore, ordering a tea ready to spend the afternoon.
Casually picked up a copy of Audrey Hepburn.
Audrey Hepburn, can not help but think of elegance, fashion, beauty and cultivation and other beautiful words.
The playful elf, fashion queen, angel of love, in multiple identities, in fact, she is also a desire to love and be loved by ordinary women, a willingness to give up acting for the sake of the family and the great mother.
Audrey Hepburn, at the same time, is also a victim of the Second World War, she y appreciated the war for people's lives will cause great impact and harm.
In her later years, she became a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador to help children in Latin America and Africa, shouting, appealing and fundraising for these children ......
A woman who lived through World War II, but exuded the light of an angel.
Due to an unfortunate childhood and the divorce of her parents in her family of origin, she lacked the love of a complete family. Despite 2 unfortunate marriages, she has not stopped pursuing happiness.
She once said:
No matter what your profession is, the desire for love is eternal. Everyone looks for ways to get love with all their heart and my way is to wait.
"I certainly don't try to pick the moon, I want the moon to run to me." Is her life motto.
As she famously said, elegance is the only beauty that never fades. Her attire was a fashion trend of the times.
I think there is no girl who does not like Hepburn. Every girl's closet will have at least one pressed little black dress.
Audrey Hepburn, a collection of perfection and elegance in a synonym. Her attitude towards life is graceful and elegant, and her independence is her attitude towards life.
Just as I fell into the legendary life of Hepburn, the ear was suddenly interrupted by the video interview dialog, elegant mood all of a sudden like a bubble burst.
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Confidence and elegance from women in the workplace
Bookstore by the window on a column of high seats, a 30-year-old, petite lady, corrected the upper body, to the cell phone video, manipulating a mouthful of skilled, fluent opening in the self-introduction, it turned out to be in the video interview.My gossip strength came up at once. (The following content is all real information, obtained from the public voice)
From the conversation, I learned that the lady from the provinces, graduated from Xiamen University, Department of Chinese, now living in Xiamen Island, Wuyuan Bay district (self-purchase housing). Have had a wealth of experience in brand promotion on the ground, seeking employment brand planning a job ......
"Wuyuan Bay self-purchase housing" this few words exceptionally beautiful, even if it is Xiamen outsiders, we all know that the lot of the price is extremely high, to say the least, each square foot to 7, 8 to 100,000 ranging.
Hearing this, I raised my head and Mr. Polar Bear stared at me for a moment, thinking, in Xiamen Wuyuan Bay has a house and a car with children, rather than come out to look for a job, it would be better to be at home to raise children (words).
After chatting about basic information, a classic question came from the other end of the phone: Do you have children?
Ms. answer: Yes ..... At this moment, I guess the interviewer inside the video must have frowned a little.
The next thing I'm sure you can imagine is that the topic of their exchange is the century-old problem of how to balance family and work for women in the workplace.
The lady said that there are elderly people at home who help take care of the kids. However, she hopes that the work schedule is not too rushed and would like to spend more time with her children. Expectedly, this is a reasonable answer.
And the interviewer in the video gave her a word of advice: "You should take the civil service exam if you want a job where you clock in on time. "The lady replied that I believe in my professionalism and I would prefer the job to be a more efficient operation.
After a few repartee's, even a bystander could roughly hear the outcome of this interview. Although this situation has become commonplace, it's a real situation played out in public, and it's really saddening to hear.
0?3Life, more than elegance
With this Hepburn biography in hand, it suddenly seems a bit ironic.In life, we often hear a lot of people to the identity of the past to caution us, how to do, can not do so, how can not do.
Hepburn told us, regardless of life to always maintain a graceful posture to face calmly, even in the difficult period of World War II, Hepburn still adhere to her dream of chief ballet dancer, has been dancing ballet.
She said that every time she danced, she always felt that there was a happy elf living in her body.
But if it were a normal woman, I don't think she could dance at all. Few people would have had the opportunity and the capital to learn what they were interested in, let alone the elegant ballet, as Hepburn did.
They are athletes, with a pair of strong arms; some are doctors and nurses, when the epidemic came, they can only put their own safety at risk, for the country's security on the front line; some are housewives, with a head of messy hair, the kitchen fumes often get them dusty.
Poverty has left them exhausted by life before they can make a graceful gesture.
Even so, society has always been so hard on women in the workplace, requiring us to be able to write a plan on the outside and do housework on the inside.
A handful of PPTs and a handful of babies.
The first thing I'd like to say is that I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to do this.
Society wants women to have a slim figure like Hepburn, but did not consider the reason why Hepburn is thin because of the young famine;
Society wants women to have a noble and elegant like Hepburn, but did not consider that the vast majority of women have to run around in the 24h daily routine of the family, in the mundane life in the crawling, slow forward.
But even so, these women didn't complain.
They are at home to raise their children, and outside on the podium. Love life in a chicken hair, whether it is the child's feces or the husband's cigarette butt, they, even if they are cursed, also accept the single.
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? Do yourself, is the best elegance
Hepburn in fact is not so perfect, even if it is known as "God accidentally left the earth's angels", with the whole world are adored by the beauty of the career is also red Hepburn, in order to the family, there have been a number of times to rest.
In real life, she is no different from ordinary people, but also to go through a failed marriage, but also with the children in a bad relationship, the work is not smooth sailing, in the "Roman Holiday", she also used to be unable to act because of the crying scene and let the director anger.
She's just an elf in the world, but she's also an ordinary person.
And every woman is a Hepburn in her own life.
Even now you have stepped into the ranks of the middle-aged, or has become a square dance in the most vigorous member.
Don't forget that you too were once an innocent and cute little girl who longed to grow up and stole mom's high heels, and you were also the princess with the sparkling crown at the wedding.
I saw a question online: How much courage does it take to be yourself after years of fighting the world?
Was it money, fame, status or family that made you be yourself? It never is.
What makes us be ourselves is being responsible for our choices, responsible for our behavior, responsible for our desires, and responsible for our life.
Choices determine everything.
The choice of independence is bound to go through the wind and rain, and suffer from open fire and dark arrows.
Choose to change life, will certainly break themselves in the quagmire of life, remodel themselves.
Choose to work, you must kill those ideas of comfort, to ensure absolute self-discipline.
Choosing a family, you have to put up with the life that brings you a lot of chicken hair, accept all kinds of sweet and sour, bitter and spicy life.
I wish you and I are fortunate and have the courage to choose what you choose and love what you choose.
Kant said: freedom is not what you want to do what you can do, but what you do not want to do what you can not do.
That's right, we fight all the way, not to change the world, but to keep the world from changing us. Finally, I want to say to girls all over the world:
You can be yourself without being Hepburn.
Because being yourself is the best elegance.