Gumption to do it

So I was just thinking on the idea that all a woman needs is place and money. How about the expectation of what they are suppose to do? I was rereading about how Pride and Prejudiced was hidden under creaky boards in the bedroom and written in secret, and it seemed that it was without the animosity towards men generally speaking. Jane Austin was not expected to write, I feel that this is amazing. How strong she must have been.

It is easy to be a sheep and do exactly what was expected of you. I did that for my first three years here, going into the major/profession that my family supported, and which my grandfather and godfather both were. It was expected of me. There is a very good chance that I will go back to it, but becasue I have found I truly like doing it. It took a lot of energy and fretting and worry to tell them that I was switching majors (from Accounting to Political Science) to explore a subject that also held my interest, but unfortunately would not get me that job on Wall Street.

While writing is not my thing, I think that this idea of women having the freedom to do what they want is one that is universal. I am being pushed in a very real way into finding a good Catholic husband who will eventually make more than me and he will be able to support the family, so I can stay home while children are being raised until they go off to school. This is coming from the grandparents I was raised by. It was interesting to tell them that I was not going down the path that they had picked for me, and in that time things were so much more rigid. However, coming from my situation, and I do not know your situations, that there are people out there lead by society who fell that in some ways there are things that we should be doing as we grow up, whether we want to or not.

Eventually this winds back around to not just that physical and/or mental place and 500 pounds a month, but I think it also takes a fair amount of gumption to go out and get this job done for yourself if it is that which is against the grain.