Thoughts upon Prada-frocked demons

The devil doesn’t wear Prada. The devil understands Prada and makes her own fortune. She wears Prada because it makes her money.

Women who know what they want take it. Sometimes you pay for this in your personal life. How masculine. How powerful. How frightening as hell to every man in the universe.

Woman as the root of evil. How charming. How archaic. Apple, anyone?

Just because she was emotional and human in a moment didn’t stop Miranda Preistley from being a business woman, but instead gave her the rep as bitchy, cold and overly ambitious. If we never saw her cry, hurt or feel, she would have simply been considered a business woman - driven, ambitious and perhaps heartless to all appearances. But her emotional response to her pending divorce, her concern for her children's reaction to "another dad" somehow, what, lessened her. Now she was guilty of crimes against humanity and deserved to suffer her pain. Up until that point we were getting to know steel-nosed business woman and almost respect her for her sharpness, her attention to detail that we all overlook and her cruelty. But no, that isn't acceptable. There has to be an emotional goopy chick in there somewhere. No woman can be THAT successful and not regret it...

Instead a woman is to accept her place – a not so hot job helping someone making “a difference” and making way the fuck less money, but thank god, she can go all the fuck to Boston and have grilled cheese sandwiches after sex with the sous chef. Her dream job of being mother to all. Give me a fucking break.

Well thank god for Miranda. Thank god for her tears, her anger, her intolerance, her laughter, her charm and her understanding of what power really is … fleeting, female and fickle. Hold it as long as you can, and for your own purposes do what must be done to keep your claws in it. It will NOT last. THAT is what separates men from women in business; men believe in eternal life, women believe in reincarnation.

I am not suggesting that being possessed by greed, avarice or bitter need for money is healthy. Of course it isn’t.
Being conscious, strong and willed by intuition and not need, is why women are advancing beyond men, whether they are prepared for it or not, and whether we are paid for it or not. We get it. We gut-feel it. We cannot be shaken, there is no deal; it is because it is. You cannot supplant a woman’s real power, her gut… it is rooted in history, in suppression, in righteous anger and in devout aspiration for greatness.

I stand in the shadow of the Miranda's of this world and take heart, not shame. I know can't have it all. But I will die trying to be every single thing I feel called to be -- successful, maternal, influential and unforgettable.

No grilled cheese necessary.