How many do you hear about?

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How many do you hear about?

Mary Anne — 4/14/2007 12:10:50 AM (archived)

Women are not counted because they didn't count. They were considered extensions of the important men in their lives. Why do you think Elizabeth I didn't marry?

How many cut their hair and enlisted, keeping their gender secret? How many ventured out on the battlefield armed with nothing but bandages? How many obtained valuable intelligence as spies?

How many held their homes and businesses together while their husbands were off at war?

How many built farms and brought in the crops? How many educated the children in their communities? How many worked in the factories?

How many did all this while told they weren't considered responsible enough to own property in their own names or to vote?

How many did all this while pregnant or nursing?

It's true what they say, you know: Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, only backwards and in high heels.

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On bravery - Jody. - 4/12/2007 5:44:42 AM
- The woman I most admire is Helen Keller (n/t) - Jody - 4/13/2007 11:42:05 AM
  - Just another in-bad-taste aside - ER - 4/13/2007 3:15:17 PM
- Oh boy, I'm going to regret this. - RobVG - 4/13/2007 1:48:14 AM
  - Holy Moly Rob! - SDAI-Tech1 - 4/14/2007 10:54:14 PM
    - Yada yada ya li'l sh**...:):):) (n/t) - Jody sticking her tongue out at you - 4/15/2007 6:54:38 PM
    - Oh great... - RobVG - 4/15/2007 3:12:01 AM
      - Ah...so you ARE regretting that post, eh? - Jody - 4/15/2007 6:52:31 PM
        
        Actually I was pleasantly surprised. - RobVG - 4/15/2007 11:59:11 PM
        
        And what would have been the point of that? - Mary Anne - 4/16/2007 12:36:40 AM
        
        Well, I certainly pondered the idea of... - Jody - 4/16/2007 12:05:49 AM
        
        re: chimpanzees' genetic material - Bonzo - 4/17/2007 7:50:24 PM
        
        Kinda figures, doesn't it? (n/t) - Fox - 4/19/2007 1:35:36 AM
  - Molly Walsh - Mary Anne - 4/14/2007 10:12:00 PM
    - Never a truer arrow loosed. - Yeti - 4/16/2007 6:39:01 AM
    - Good Golly Miss Molly! - Lindy - 4/15/2007 2:45:46 AM
  - And re: the Brooklyn Bridge... - Mary Anne - 4/14/2007 12:16:17 AM
  - How many do you hear about? - Mary Anne - 4/14/2007 12:10:50 AM
    - "...Everything Fred Astaire did...." - S - 4/18/2007 12:56:25 AM
      - Oh, I know! - Mary Anne - 4/18/2007 1:32:32 AM
        
        re: Oh, I know! - S - 4/18/2007 11:02:58 PM
    - re: How many do you hear about? - Marcia - 4/16/2007 2:51:13 AM
    - "Ginger brought sex to the partnership... - ER - 4/16/2007 1:49:30 AM
    - "Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, only backwards and in high heels. " - Lindy - 4/14/2007 2:56:40 PM
      - And I can't take credit for it. - Mary Anne - 4/16/2007 12:56:15 AM
      - As we can see by these posts... - Jody - 4/14/2007 6:46:03 PM
        
        The guys who don't get it...don't get any. - ER - 4/15/2007 3:39:47 PM
        
        and you would be spot on there, ER - Jody - 4/15/2007 6:50:05 PM
        
        Women do seem to have one disadvantage over men. - ER - 4/15/2007 9:32:56 PM
        
        Try to find any woman nowadays who recognizes irony. - TB - 4/16/2007 1:09:47 AM
        
        I would like to aMEND this post - Jody - 4/16/2007 2:18:32 AM
        
        We can if there's a pressing need. - Mary Anne - 4/16/2007 1:14:33 AM
        
        The Greek tailor and his customer... - ER - 4/16/2007 1:19:04 AM
        
        LOL! - Mary Anne - 4/16/2007 1:34:13 AM
        
        re: LOL! - ER - 4/16/2007 1:43:14 AM
        
        Discussing? Hardly. - Mary Anne - 4/16/2007 2:23:51 AM
        
        Mary Anne how lucky you were!...my Grandfather couldn't have cared less. (n/t) - Jody - 4/17/2007 4:17:51 AM
        
        He'd be very proud to see how you're passing it onward... (n/t) - TB - 4/17/2007 3:07:14 AM
        
        Okay Smarty pants - Jody - 4/16/2007 12:01:45 AM
        
        I can't help myself, I'm Cuban. - ER - 4/16/2007 1:30:08 AM
        
        Cock-a-doodle- do - Jody - 4/16/2007 2:23:29 AM
        
        and the only disadvantage a man has is.. - Jody - 4/16/2007 12:15:18 AM
        
        Somebody had to break up this estrogen love fest. (n/t) - ER - 4/16/2007 1:31:25 AM
        
        There's your irony right there... (n/t) - RobVG - 4/16/2007 2:50:25 AM
        
        BUT.... - Jody - 4/16/2007 2:36:17 AM
        
        Only when there are pictures. (n/t) - Mary Anne - 4/16/2007 2:41:03 AM
        
        :):):):):) (n/t) - Jody - 4/16/2007 12:16:14 AM
  - re: You never heard of Rosie the Riveter? - SteveS - 4/13/2007 11:20:51 PM
  - Behind every good man... - SDG - 4/13/2007 2:48:31 PM
  - tsk..tsk.... (n/t) - Jody - 4/13/2007 1:21:23 PM
  - Read about John and Abigail Adams - Fox - 4/13/2007 2:50:01 AM
  - Wow! - Bowser - 4/13/2007 2:08:37 AM
    - "Which would you rather do, endure natural childbirth or sign the Declaration of Independence?" - Lindy - 4/13/2007 3:19:24 AM
  - bravery is a subjective term (n/t) - Jody - 4/13/2007 2:04:46 AM
  - The women give birth to these men (n/t) - Jody - 4/13/2007 2:03:49 AM
    - And raised them to be who they were. - TB - 4/13/2007 2:50:16 AM
      - re: And raised them to be who they were. - ER - 4/13/2007 3:27:39 PM
        
        That's the answer. - TB - 4/13/2007 6:35:58 PM

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