"As a woman, I had fewer rights of my own. When I was younger than 21, I could not sign for anything without my dad's approval. My dad even had to approve the car I was attempting to buy. After marriage (I was still under 21), my husband had to sign for everything. After I turned 21, I got a job. Of course, I later became pregnant and was forced to quit."
"Growing up during the Cold War, the possibility of nuclear war was ever-present. I frequently had nuclear war nightmares, which only ended after the fall of the USSR. My elementary school had a fallout shelter, and when I was in third grade, the principal took my class down there and passed out small containers of water and crackers, explaining that we could live down there with our classmates if war broke out. We didn't understand the potential horrors - just that we'd have crackers and water. Such a strange time."
"We were taught to trust doctors implicitly. We were never to question or challenge a doctor because they were much smarter and knew more than we did about our own bodies, and questioning them showed disrespect. Maybe that's because most doctors were men?"
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