I never questioned that fathers knew best, <br />that husbands were always obeyed, <br />that God was a man who required that His children <br />be dutiful, meek and afraid. <br />I never questioned that women must be <br />docile and nubile, lovely and slender <br />and grateful for masculine time and attention <br />given the female, inferior gender. <br /> <br />I never questioned until almost too late, <br />till shame was too solid <br />and hope too ethereal, <br />till father was dead <br />and husband divorced <br />and duty dissolved <br />and God immaterial.<br /><br />Linda Stitt<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/woman-in-question/
