I grew up as a peculiar child. I wore long dresses and skirts that would often swish when I walked or tangle around my skinny legs as I did everything from climbing trees to singing in the church’s choir.
I had to always “look and act like a lady” from childhood into my early adult years, knowing my only calling in life was to be a wife and a mother and nothing more.
I was always to be overseen by a man and had to submit in all things. A hallmark aspect of the Christian Fundamentalist and patriarchy movement is that men were the bosses in the church and at home, and women were to serve them.
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