re: #171 Floral Giraffe

Thinking about the lives of women who lived generations ( and not that many!) before me, makes me so very grateful for the freedoms that I have.
Even my mother & grandmother could not envision the freedoms that I have.

It’s just not so long ago. I realize that when Donaldina Cameron (how’s that for a nice steampunky name?) “Chinatown’s Avenging Angel”, started pulling girls out of the San Francisco brothels, it was thirty years before my grandmother was born. When Grandma was born, women had had the vote for four years.

I read novels from the years that my mother was a child and young woman, and it’s still like another world, the lack of freedom women had.