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Hi Apple 

I haven't read those other books  probably because I was at university and working  - I did read Women Writers though  - so long ago now I can only remember that I led a seminar on Mary Shelley and I was so interested that a teenager could create Frankenstein as she did  - the character  - not just the story 

Any  - I must have already been at university when I read The Women's Room. When my kids were still pre-schoolers I woke up one morning and realised I was making life great for three other people and mine was going nowhere and I hated that. So I did a correspondence course  - theology  - then my HSC and studied for 12 years at Monash part time 

At some stage I told my mother I was emancipated  - I still wonder if she understood what I meant  - of course she said I wasn't but I was

In my opinion emancipation is a state of mind not being  - I was free of all she had been trying to make me believe all my life until then 

I must have been a disagreeable daughter to have around 

Your experiences sound. more exhausting  - I feel that for you and I sorry about that 

I am so glad I know you though 

Dec