Rachel is smack dab in the middle of The Duchess. If you don't know of the movie, it's an wracking look at the lives of women within the 18th century. I have to confess that I've been watching the movie in bits as I've tried to get some reading done tonight (which has been quite in vain). As I catch glimpses of the movie, I can't help but think what so many have thought but only a couple of days ago.

My how far we have come.

To think that no longer than our country has been in existence have we been free from what was being done to women as the standard! Husbands could have any number of affairs and all that would be well and good. If a woman was to glance in the direction of another male, she could be ostracized and left out of the family. To think that less than 100 ago women packed the streets demanding they be treated as equals and shortly there after were successful for the first time. Amazing how an event can set the wheels in motion, yet law doesn't always make things change.

I think most women would attest to the fact that we are still working for equal rights for women. African Americans would say the same. So would every person who has never been in power or the majority. My how far we have come. Amazing how much we can grow yet how much growth can still be needed. To see how far we have come and see how far we still have to go. The fight for rights continues today. We find new fights to fight (the unborn, the young, etc.) yet some fights that have "been won" still have some fighting left to do. We have come a long way in America (and the world) but the fight that we fight is still a long way from over. May we have a new passion for walking it out.
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