Wednesday, October 21, 2009
kids...
Today a student of mine, EC, came into my office. She will be graduating in May. She is also a remarkable turnaround story. While discussing academics and sports and other topics, I mentioned the need to balance work and family. She said that she wanted to have two boys, and no girls.. We had some interesting discussion about it, but it hit me that none of us ever had that discussion with our parents or friends when we were in school. She also talked about her parents, and how her father wants her to work and be independent. Reminded me a lot of our father.
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“... I am confident you will not throw my work aside, and hastily conclude that I am in the wrong, because you did not view the subject in the same light yourself. And, pardon my frankness, but I must observe, that you treated it in too cursory a manner, contented to consider it as it had been considered formerly, when the rights of man, not to advert to woman, were trampled on as chimerical—I call upon you, therefore, now to weigh what I have advanced respecting the rights of woman, and national education—and I call with the firm tone of humanity. For my arguments, Sir, are dictated by a disinterested spirit — I plead for my sex—not for myself. Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue—and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath ...”
From “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman,” by Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797)
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