If For Thy Father Askt By Anne Brastreet

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Wanting to protect your ideas is like wanting to protect your children. Save them from those who are not able to appreciate them. Feeling disgusted by those that all they can do is criticize and treat your creativity with scrutiny, scares you and makes you want to stay even farther away from it all. But then being ashamed ,( when Bradstreet mentions in line 22 “If for thy Father askt”) of what you have done is the least you can do, letting people step over you and make you feel like you have no purpose and what you have done is worthless. In a time like the author lived in it was kind of expected for women to only do house work and raise children.
So putting together something that she sees so terrible, demonstrates that this maybe how she

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