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THIS is why we study history. When we see life the way someone else once did, when we consider others' hardships and are able to empathize with their problems, we learn to get outside of ourselves and our own narrow opinions. If you walk through life with blinders that you've constructed for yourself or let others construct for you, you'll miss so much of the world around you, and we can't afford that blindness any more than we can afford to forget how these women thought and felt. --Sarah Smethurst | THIS is why we study history. When we see life the way someone else once did, when we consider others' hardships and are able to empathize with their problems, we learn to get outside of ourselves and our own narrow opinions. If you walk through life with blinders that you've constructed for yourself or let others construct for you, you'll miss so much of the world around you, and we can't afford that blindness any more than we can afford to forget how these women thought and felt. --Sarah Smethurst | ||
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| + | Well put, Sarah, but I would also like to add, that for these couples to stop having sex, '''both''' the man and the woman would have to agree to this. Many times women had a hard time convincing their husbands to refrain, and so they had to seek out female contraceptives so they could protect themselves that way. - Alice W. | ||
==Margaret Jarman Hagood, The Life Cycle of a White Southern Farm Woman== | ==Margaret Jarman Hagood, The Life Cycle of a White Southern Farm Woman== | ||
