Dear Mathilde In addition to being yourself, They will expect you to be a good girl, grow into a good woman As you will soon discover, There is no such thing as a good girl or a good woman There is, however, such a thing as you Such a thing is true, and forever good Practice your smile You will need it It will be your strength and your mask too You must learn how to kick How to punch How to push You must work twice as hard You must be twice as smart To be a woman is a full time job, for the half the pay And even then, not always You will discover your inner gangstar You will learn to out-run, out-do They will label you a bad girl You will learn to be unmoved Invent your identity Remember necessity is the mother, so as need be, change it Your body is your home Your throne Adorn it And remember this, in whatever form, in whatever shape you may be In whatever version of reality you find yourself in You are a queen The feminine energy of all of creation You are of life and you are life itself Goddess