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farnival
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posted 03 April 2008 11:16 AM
quote: Originally posted by Polly Brandybuck:
...I read this stuff and I think...my poor mom.
and i just think of my very patriarchal grandpa, whom we all loved very much, spent his days running the show, and seeing my mum, aunt, and grandma humour him on the fiction. [ 03 April 2008: Message edited by: farnival ]
From: where private gain trumps public interest, and apparently that's just dandy. | Registered: Jul 2004
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remind
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posted 03 April 2008 11:23 AM
quote: Originally posted by Polly Brandybuck: And making sure we have definite duties to fill the day - being as how all women lack initiative.I read this stuff and I think...my poor mom.
I know that lacking initiative paragraph made me go, "yuck".I did not think of my mom, or even my maternal grandmother when I read it though. My mom was a feminist long before the word was coined, and my (step) grandmother, whom I was very close to, was a teacher, who married kmy grandfather later in life, well, for that time anyway, and she did not even know how to curl her own hair, as a professional woman, with her own income, she had always had it styled. Nor even in respect to my paternal grandmother, who worked way too hard feeding a family of 9, and then in later years feeding 35, or so, granchildren, but she lived well into her 80's anyway. She was the backbone of my Dad's family, though the only thing I ever remember her saying was; "go get the leaves in the basement for the table". She had 3 gardens ranging from about 1300-1500 square feet, and she processed everything from them that needed to be. The basement was like walking into a grocery store, with several rows and 2 sided shelves from floor to ceiling and with shelves lining all the walls too. And then there was a separate room, that had no heating, for cold storage of fruits and vegatables.
From: "watching the tide roll away" | Registered: Jun 2004
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