tanstaafl
2008-03-19 12:45:43
Grandma and to some extent, mother, had no choice but to shut the heck up and submit to her husband and the kids, no matter how miserable and disgusted she was.
Not true of my grandmothers, either one. Both born late 19th c.
One of them, post divorce, made a killing in southern California real estate in the 1930′s-1950′s.
No college degree, but she did sing for the troops during WW II and had a brilliant mane of flowing red hair.
The statement above doesn’t apply to my mother or aunts, either.
Generalizations about the status of women (past and present)are depressing.
