you are a girl. no i am not, i am a woman. but, you are a girl, too. no.

[Remember Me]

5. I LOVE your father

what a great guy!

My dad meant well, back in the 60s when I was growing up. I remember him telling me I could be anything I wanted to, but it wasn't all that convincing at the time. What I remember much more vividly -- and rejected flat out (tho silently) -- when I was starting to date: "Remember, the boys don't like girls that are smarter than they are. So you ought to hide that a little."

The HELL I will. Remember, this was before Bella Abzug and Gloria Steinem, though not too many years before. I remember looking at him and blinking a bit, and going on my merry way muttering to myself something about finding a better class of boy -- or perhaps doing without. Jeez, my intelligence was the one thing I enjoyed and felt I could count on for sure in my life. Throw it away, disavow or even "forget it" for an evening? Over my dead body! It still startles me a bit (eyes blinking yet again) that he thought there was anything viable about that idea. LOL.