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She wept when they gave birth to daughters, knowing that to be born a woman meant a life of humble hardship.
A person who pulls himself up from a low environment via the bootstrap route has two choices. Having risen above his environment, he can forget it; or, he can rise above it and never forget it and keep compassion and understanding in his heart for those he has left behind him in the cruel upclimb.
They learned no compassion from their own anguish. Thus their suffering was wasted.
It showed her that there were other worlds beside the world she had been born into and that these other worlds were not unattainable.
