Written by dear friend Laura Cartwright Hardy, this post about the nature of being a feminist should be required reading for young women under 30. The fight isn’t over, girls. Thanks, Laura.
“So cast off the shackles of yesterday …”
Disney’s Mary Poppins had a lot to do with it, I suppose, but I don’t remember ever not knowing that women had to fight for the right to vote. I was 8 or 9 when our entire family went to see the movie at one of the glorious downtown theaters and 9 or 10 when I was playing “Sister Suffragette” (in my Mary Poppins‘ songbook for piano) and singing along. It really struck a chord with me.
I can still burst into SS and march/dance around the room for my grandkids (OK, just because I feel like it):
“… Political equality and equal rights with men,
take heart for Mrs. Pankhurst has been clapped in irons again!
No more the meek and mild subservients we –
We’re fighting for our rights militantly – never you fear! …
So, cast off the…
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