I guess it’s quite something when a person reaches the age of 100, but for some reason I couldn’t find it in me to be excited about my grandmother’s 100th birthday party. Maybe it’s the I-know-you’re-trying-too-hard greetings from relatives I don’t see often, or the terrible cake; either way I was not in a celebratory mood the whole night. Just as I was about to grab my coat and say my goodbyes, though, someone is pulling my hand and leading me towards my grandma’s bedroom. I immediately recognize the small woman with tied up gray hair and round glasses pulling me away from the door, but what could she possibly want me for? Once in the room, she took a seat in her rocking chair, lit her pipe, and told me her time is limited, and someone has
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Although she wasn’t an active participant in the Revolutionary War, my grandma ended up joining the likes of Murray and Abigail Adams in the war on social justice that sprang from the former. “It was a nice change since nothing my father brought for me had anything to say about women being equal to men.” For a girl of 15 to be believing in something even more outrageous in that time is crazy. “After reading ‘On the Equality of the Sexes,’ I was able to understand the arrogance men had against their wives, like that of my stepfather to my mother. Why did she concede to him so easily? That’s when I decided I wasn’t going to sink into the system like that, and I stopped faithfully taking orders from my stepfather. I took my all my resulting floggings with pride. Judith lit a fire in me that could never be …show more content…
Although it was written for the sole intent of making the country a more fair place, she was a little skeptical about whether it would work or not after seeing previous attempts to alleviate the domestic problems the colonies are facing. She was mostly disappointed that there was nothing that brought up women’s rights specifically. At this point my grandma took another puff out of her pipe and paused here, I guess to collect herself after recalling the first quarter of her life. I asked if she was okay, but she told me “nonsense,” and dived forward into her life
Although she wasn’t an active participant in the Revolutionary War, my grandma ended up joining the likes of Murray and Abigail Adams in the war on social justice that sprang from the former. “It was a nice change since nothing my father brought for me had anything to say about women being equal to men.” For a girl of 15 to be believing in something even more outrageous in that time is crazy. “After reading ‘On the Equality of the Sexes,’ I was able to understand the arrogance men had against their wives, like that of my stepfather to my mother. Why did she concede to him so easily? That’s when I decided I wasn’t going to sink into the system like that, and I stopped faithfully taking orders from my stepfather. I took my all my resulting floggings with pride. Judith lit a fire in me that could never be …show more content…
Although it was written for the sole intent of making the country a more fair place, she was a little skeptical about whether it would work or not after seeing previous attempts to alleviate the domestic problems the colonies are facing. She was mostly disappointed that there was nothing that brought up women’s rights specifically. At this point my grandma took another puff out of her pipe and paused here, I guess to collect herself after recalling the first quarter of her life. I asked if she was okay, but she told me “nonsense,” and dived forward into her life