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To: Brumar89 who wrote (1276)	9/1/2006 7:38:56 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1695

I only knew one grandmother. The other died very young. I am sure it was from too many childbirths and all that slave labor. (That was a joke, men!) Yes, I think the barriers were that enormous in the 60s. Not just the real ones, but the emotional ones that we carried from all the indoctrination of our youth. We were still looking for the doctor/lawyer to marry while the approved route was teaching for us. Maybe it mattered that I was raised in the South where I learned to serve a lovely lunch and entertain? I dated the president of the student body who was going to be a lawyer while I had the babies and he assumed he was superior, and then I scored 400 points higher on the SATs than he did. In those late 60 years, when I was in college, I finally became aware that we could actually DO meaningful things that weren't just stopgap measures until you found that doctor to marry, or to earn a living if he left you. My roomie influenced me a lot. She was brilliant- winding up with a PhD from MIT in chemistry and physics. (AND she raised two kids!) What I hear you saying now is that the rights are there and were willingly given, so where do you see it as having gone wrong? If your grandmothers were free to divorce and own land, and work, then what then was demanded that turned it sour for you?