Teach Your Children Well

From my earliest moments, I remember my mother telling me that there’s nothing I can’t do if I put my mind to it. I wasn’t entirely sure what she meant at first, but it sounded good. Later, the oversimplification would gall me. Particularly when scraping with math homework that neither she nor my dad could help me untangle. For the most part, however, her programming worked. I’ve never looked at anything and dismissed it as something I couldn’t do. It’s never even occurred to me that my womanhood might stand between me and my goals. If I never climb Everest or become an NFL quarterback, it’s not because I can’t. I simply don’t want to badly enough. Read the rest of this entry »

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