penelope and sarah

BEHIND EVERY GOOD MAN IS A GREAT WOMAN Most ancient texts were written by men. It is important to remember this. The writers made sure that men were always the heroes, the powerful ones-- the important ones. Women always seem to lay in the background. However, we must not blame this solely on the writers. Historically, women have not been treated as equals. One cannot help but observe that in the specific area of family …showed first 75 words of 1439 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1439 total…the roles of mothers and wives. They have been restricted to the home and kept from public functions. Despite these limitations, women have played an important role in shaping history. They have taken their restrictions and acted through them in order for their voices to be heard. We don’t often realize it’s their voices, but we do hear them. It’s just that we hear them through the husbands, brothers, sons-- the “heroes”.