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This Side of Paradise
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Rotten, rotten old world," broke out Eleanor suddenly, "and the wretchedest thing of all is me - oh, why am I a girl? Why am I not a stupid -? Look at you; you're stupider than I am, not much, but some, and you can lope about and get bored and then lope somewhere else, and you can play around with girls without being involved in meshes of sentiment, and you can do anything and be justified - and here am I with the brains to do everything, yet tied to the sinking ship of future matrimony. If I were born a hundred years from now, well and good, but now what's in store for me - I have to marry, that goes without saying. Who? I'm too bright for most men, and yet I have to descend to their level and let them patronise my intellect in order to get attention."
An extract from This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1920)
How funny for I to stumbled across this paragraph when reading my book this evening. It really sat with me. The fact that a woman speaking three years shy of a hundred years from now was dreaming of a world where she could go about her life without the need for a husband and freedom to be able to be educated and respected. Our world is much kinder to women than a hundred years ago in the same way it is much crueler. While we have progressed we still have many flaws and many a way to go. As time goes on issues don't just stay in the past, unless we resolve them they come with us. It's time to make a change for the coming generations (in a hundred years time).
#internationalwomensday
An extract from This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1920)
How funny for I to stumbled across this paragraph when reading my book this evening. It really sat with me. The fact that a woman speaking three years shy of a hundred years from now was dreaming of a world where she could go about her life without the need for a husband and freedom to be able to be educated and respected. Our world is much kinder to women than a hundred years ago in the same way it is much crueler. While we have progressed we still have many flaws and many a way to go. As time goes on issues don't just stay in the past, unless we resolve them they come with us. It's time to make a change for the coming generations (in a hundred years time).
#internationalwomensday