As I learn more about women in history, I don't feel sorry or sad, but I feel empowered. It is sad the persepective was women could not, should not, or just can't. It is sad that they weren't allowed to be or do what their interests or intelligences would have allowed them to do. Reading this article, I thought the same thoughts as I did while reading about my research subject, which "hell yes!" Reading about Mary Ewing Outerbridge who needed her brothers help to regain her conficasted items because it was a net and woment don't fish. I am so glad she didn't stop there because tennis is a fantastic sport. Or Sylvia Plath who wrote beautiful poems, but was only discovered after her suicide. Or even Henrietta Lacks, who's cancer cells were taken without permission, would later become known as "HeLa (pronounced hee-lah), has been at the core of treatments for hemophilia, herpes, influenza, leukemia, and Parkinson’s disease as well as the polio vaccine, the cancer drug tamoxifen, chemotherapy, gene mapping, and in vitro fertilization." While I don't think an obituary would have done them justice, I believe that having one would begin the process of paying them the dues they deserve.
As I learn more about women in history, I don't feel sorry or sad, but I feel empowered. It is sad the persepective was women could not, should not, or just can't. It is sad that they weren't allowed to be or do what their interests or intelligences would have allowed them to do. Reading this article, I thought the same thoughts as I did while reading about my research subject, which "hell yes!" Reading about Mary Ewing Outerbridge who needed her brothers help to regain her conficasted items because it was a net and woment don't fish. I am so glad she didn't stop there because tennis is a fantastic sport. Or Sylvia Plath who wrote beautiful poems, but was only discovered after her suicide. Or even Henrietta Lacks, who's cancer cells were taken without permission, would later become known as "HeLa (pronounced hee-lah), has been at the core of treatments for hemophilia, herpes, influenza, leukemia, and Parkinson’s disease as well as the polio vaccine, the cancer drug tamoxifen, chemotherapy, gene mapping, and in vitro fertilization." While I don't think an obituary would have done them justice, I believe that having one would begin the process of paying them the dues they deserve.
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