Equal rights. Are we happy with where we are?

Lately I have been thinking about what it means to be a woman and what are roles as women are. For quite some time we have been fighting for equal rights so that we can have everything that a man has. By doing so, I think we have done a disservice to ourselves. I would like to think we are better than that. I still love it when a door gets opened for me or if the men in the room actually change their conversation because I am in the room. It shows a level of respect that I think we might have lost over the years. One thing that I will always remember about my mother was that she was such a lady. Frankly, I don't really want to be equal to the men. I want to be more than that and to be treated as such. In our quest for equal rights, I am afraid that we may have lost something very precious. I know that as women we can really do anything we put our minds to, but I want my girls to know that we are also so much more.

Kids....When and How Many?

Before you get married everyone asks you about your dating life and when you are getting married. As if it is completely under your control. Then you get married and it changes to when and how many kids are you going to have. I am not sure when it became ok to even ask these kind of questions. It really is nobody's business. If you want to have 0 or 10 kids, it is up to you. People even seem to have an opinion on how they should be spaced out. Unfortutely, we sometimes even make people feel bad for their choices when we may not have all the facts. I am not sure if this is just a Mormon thing or just the way things are now, but I would like to see it change.