I’m angry and sad for my mother and countless other women who suffered (both knowingly and unknowingly) from a system that could only view them as baby-makers, babysitters, and caretakers of the elderly. Their worth was seen in their ability to care for other human beings. No wonder so many women of my mother’s and grandmother’s generations are physically ill; these women who are the bedrock of their respective families have cracked and fissured. Their foundations crumble and they become sick from years, decades even, of standing and bending and folding and cooking and shouldering without a
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