Jerrold YamI am thinking of our family's womenas faraway bulbs, their historywith crippling loss, and how I am pieced together, shell and sand, from the spine of their collective strength.
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A poet named Emily Dickenson wrote: I am thinking of our family's women as faraway bulbs, their history with crippling loss, and how I am pieced together, shell and sand, from the spine of their collective strength. Her poem is about the women who gave birth to her and raised her. It was written during a time of great pain and struggle for the Dickenson family. She was born into a time where women were expected to be subservient.
They had to make sacrifices for the sake of the family. When a woman became pregnant, she could not work or seek comfort from her husband. She had to give up any ideas she might have about being a professional or pursuing a career after she had a baby.
She was expected to have a baby every single year without fail unless she married early and had children in her teens. Being born female meant that she had no rights as a mother as she was not allowed to divorce or even own property. In this poem, Ms.
Dickenson is explaining how it felt to be born as a female during those times. She was raised by her mother and grandmother who were two strong women who always had her back no matter what happened in life. Her grandmother was a slave owner who made all kinds of sacrifices for both of them during hard times whereas her mother was a cook for many years before meeting Mr.
Dickenson, but she never thought she could become anything more than that until he proposed marriage with the idea of starting a new life with another person after they got married.
Source: Scattered Vertebrae
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