Fanny Kemble stated, “A great number of women are victims to falling out the womb and weakness in the spine; but these are necessary results of their laborious existence, and do not belong either to climate or constitution”, meaning women with low self-esteem do not belong or that their weakness is oneself. It results in their laborious existence meaning the hard labor that women endured for not believing in their self. Katharyn Howd Machan wrote the poem titled, “Hazel Tells Laverne.” In this poem, Machan brings the main character from a hopeless state of dreading reality, to the dream of actually being a princess, when the talking frog appears from the toilet bowl. However, she does not believe in herself to actually think she can be more
