LizzieMaine
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Amy Jeanne said:I still kind of feel a bit of shame when I think of my roots. When I hear college-educated 20-somethings telling *me* how it is it just brings me down. I'm so glad they don't have to go through what I did -- I maybe even feel a bit of jealousy! Talking to people like you, Lizzie, is really comforting. We're the real feminists, I think! We just do what we have to do and get on with it.
Don't ever let people make you feel ashamed of your background -- I went thru that too, but eventually realized there's no shame in working for an honest living, no matter how you do it, and that most of the people who'd been high-hatting me all that time wouldn't have ever been able to hack it if they'd had to live the life I had. Nobody in my family -- including me -- has ever gotten a college degree, but that's no barrier to someone who's smart and determined. And just like you say, that's the real Spirit of Rosie in action.