Being a woman in 2024

By Charlotte Fontaine NASHVILLE, TN — Being a woman is simultaneously difficult and easy as smooth, hot honey running down a sore throat. Beyond the production of physical and mental upkeep, balancing a job, familial and romantic relationships, and keeping an eye on the oil in our cars, being a woman can be beautiful, fulfilling, and downright entertaining depending on the day and season of life. March is Women’s History Month, so I wanted to speak to women of different ages, races, and experiences who wanted to share their stories of feminine beauty and rage.& & Voice-over actress Marlie Rodriguez, 28, states, “When I think of why I am proud to be a woman, I think about my mother, her mother, her mother’s mother. I come from generations of outspoken, creative, hilarious and deeply emotional and brilliant women who have taught me so much about how important it is to forge my own unique path, despite what is conventional.” All of the women I spoke to at one time or another credited the women they grew up with, whether they knew them personally or from history, with their views of the world and, generally, their kindness towards it despite the...