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Current mood:  thankful Category: Goals, Plans, Hopes
I came across this from a history book. It's an excerpt from a letter written in 1837 by a woman named Sarah M. Grimke "On the Condition of Women in the United States." It was during a time of slavery and which women could not vote. There was starting to be opposition from women regarding their inferiority and their designated place in the home, and the outrage against treatment of women slaves became evident and started to be a concern for women in general. "I do long to see the time, when it will no longer be necessary for women to expend so many precious hours in furnishing "a well spread table," but that their husbands will forego some of their accustomed indulgences in this way, and encourage their wives to devote some portion of their time to mental cultivation, even at the expense of having to dine sometimes on baked potatoes, or bread and butter..."
"Our brethren may reject my doctrine, because it runs counter to common opinions, and because it wounds their pride; but I believe they would be "partakers of the benefit" resulting from the Equality of the Sexes, and would find that woman, as their equal, was unspeakably more valuable than woman as their inferior, both as a moral and an intellectual being."As a strong woman, I felt this was really inspiring to read. It made me a lil' angry, towards society in the past and the way women were regarded. But in 1837 this lady longed to see freedoms possible for women that are in abundance today. And we have the women of our past, and the strong women of our present, to thank for that. We have come a long way. Hillary Clinton, a woman, was almost President. And I think that is awesome. 
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Californication
By Red Hot Chili Peppers
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