Listen up, kids. As if Julianne wasn't stripping you of misconceptions 8 days a week already, she brings in E. M-B to papercut your preconceived notions. On. Point.

If you're curious, that isn't my grandmother up there. It is Jane Addams, turn-of-the-century activist (on all fronts), feminist, sociologist, theorist, author, teacher, Nobel Prize-winner, and all-round guardian of love-in-action. She may read like a gentle flower compared to the sharp elbows of J & E, but don't sleep.

From Otis Tufton Mason's Woman's Share In Primitive Culture (c. 1894), a text that heavily influenced Addams:

It is not here avowed that women may not pursue any path in life they choose, that they have no right to turn aside from old highways to wander in unbeaten tracks. But before it is decided to do that there in no harm in looking backward over the honorable achievements of the sex. All this is stored capital, accumulated experience and energy. If all mankind to come should be better born and nurtured, better instructed in morals and conduct at the start, better clothed and fed and housed all their lives, better married and encompassed and refined, the old ratios of progress would be doubled. All this beneficent labour is the birthright of women, and much of it of women alone. Past glory therein is secure, and it only remains to be seen how far the future will add to its lustre in the preservation of holy ideals.

i.e. Keep Building.

No song today. Read something.