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My role models
Amelia Walker
AustraliaGALLERYCONVERSATION
My mother and grandmother are both strong, beautiful, caring women who I love and respect, and yet the three of us argue like...
Through childhood I adopted a curious assortment of role models: Mother Theresa, Barbie and my grade one teacher, who wore dangly earrings and let us sing songs; later it was Alanis Morrisette, Virginia Woolf and my grade nine English teacher, who had bleached spiky hair, green sneakers and let us write poetry.
Overall, I think I have been extremely lucky to grow up in a society where women are able to gain education and employment, and in which our sexuality is more recognized and accepted than ever before. I feel comfortable saying that I am bisexual. However, I think the pressures upon women in terms of body image are greater than ever before. Technology allows magazines to airbrush models to utterly ridiculous proportions, giving girls and women unrealistic expectations.

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