Discussion Continued

I wanted to bring up the quote "One can measure the opposition that was in the air to a woman writing when one finds that even a woman with a great turn for writing has brought herself to believe that to write a book was to be ridiculous."in class on friday but couldn't find the right way to squeeze it in.  This quote really struck me because the fact that opposition can make someone turn away from something they were born to do is incredibly upsetting.  I don't think that this has anything to do with women being 'overly-emotional' either.  I think it's the fact that so much opposition can break a person down no matter what their specialty is.  Something comparable to this would be nursing.  I think I had mentioned that both my parents are nurses in class before but to this day my dad still is slightly criticized for being a male nurse.  He started to doubt his career choice while he was in college and people would laugh when he said his major was nursing because its supposed to be a 'woman's job'.  This example may not be the best to compare to writing but it is something that still exists.