Phenomenal Woman.

"I was mine, before I was anybody else's." (Nayyirah Waheed)

When Maya Angelou wrote her poem ‘Phenomenal Woman’ I believe she had every woman in mind.

I was not born a natural beauty, nor did I live in a perfect hour-glass body. I grew up thinking what my mother said was true - I was too tall, my feet were too big, my shoulders broad enough to carry burdens and my hips broad enough to carry children but no sign o…