European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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My mother didn’t want the landlord to see us kids who could not work yet.
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She didn’t want her to count how many cups of milk she would take out every morning to feed us.
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In the sharecropping contract, if four of us kids were not working, we were only more mouths to feed.
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My school only went up to the third grade.
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In order to do the remaining two years one had to go further away.
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This would have meant adding three more kilometres to the three I was already doing.
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It wouldn’t have been the biggest problem though.
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Most families thought that if they were to make sacrifices it had to be for the boys, not for the girls.
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It was customary, so I didn’t even think about it.
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After I had finished the third grade I was supposed to stay at home, as there was no money for me to continue.
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It was something we were
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used to hear and also understand.
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Traditionally, as you got married,
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you would have to carry what you learned as a woman at home into a new house, in a new family.
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However, all you were supposed to do was to be a good wife in your new life,
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know how to mend your husband’s pants and how to make socks for him.
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That was the current opinion at the time.
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As I finished school I started to work in the fields.
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In the winter, when it was snowing, I would go to the nuns to learn how to sew and patch.
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They wouldn’t teach us embroidering: that was something for the children of the wealthy.
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