we are an answered prayer

We can finally be anything, so let’s not become just somebody’s wife.

Upon birth every girl is sentenced for the crime of womanhood. She becomes destined to a life of invisibility and subservience. The pain of this fate is not an individual but a collective experience, something every woman in history knows intimately.

For so long women had no option for a life outside of marriage and motherhood. These roles haunted them a…