We are in dire need of intelligent, strong, moral female role models who don’t back down in the face of adversity.
Thank you @authormariebenedict for writing books that not only recognize unknown, forgotten, or ‘invisible’ women & their contributions but also teaching readers very important lessons.
These are women who have ideas, who effect change, who are unheard or cast aside despite living in reality (not someone else’s) and who constantly chose to “do the right thing” but endure the consequences for doing so. Clementine Churchill & Mileva Maric-Einstein..we are familiar with their husbands but what about the works they’ve contributed? Are you familiar with Hedy Lamarr’s off-screen contributions and how her adopted (uncredited) ideas contribute to the ease of your everyday life?
Not to mention the fictional but all too relatable, Clara Kelley. Having others take responsibility for her work and contributions, being misguided by others through deceit, emotional manipulation, and attempts to alter her version of reality all while working, serving, and observing a family who seeks power and control and inflicts guilt and shame as a means of showing and receiving ‘love’. (In addition to learning about the Enrollment Act of 1863 in which someone drafted to the Civil War could pay a substitute to fight in his place. If unable to find a…
