My Beloved Daughter By Susan B. Anthony - 1018 Words

My beloved daughter, I wrote this for you when I was two months away from seventeen years old, and I hope this letter reaches you when you’re about the same. I want to first talk to you about women, and why I was incredibly lucky to grow up a woman in the age that I did and why I hope you are even luckier. The women who came before me fought for their mothers, their sisters, their daughters, and their nieces so that they could have the life they deserved. Women like Susan B. Anthony, Dorothy Height, Jane Addams, Alice Stone Blackwell, and so many others had a unified dream: equality for women. I am so grateful to live in a time they could only dream of. Some of the opportunities I have been given, they wouldn’t even be able to imagine.†¦show more content†¦You’re a prize, all girls are. And I hope you never forget that. Keeping on the topic of women, I want you to remember something: girls aren’t the enemy. A girl isn’t a roadblock in the way to dating someone, or a something to be jealous of. Girls are an incredibly powerful force, in my opinion. But this also means that girls can tear each other down, pretty harshly. In my experience, girls, for some reason, can be really nasty to each other. We know just how to get to each other, how to push each other’s buttons, and we know right where something would hurt the most. For this reason, I have somehow been a part of more girl fights than I can think of. I was either a neutral party in the fight or I was directly involved. I’m not sure why this is, why girls insist or tearing each other down. Girls are really quick to get on the defensive if something happens, but I just wonder what would happen if we channeled that. If girls everywhere fought injustice instead of each other, would we become a force to be reckoned with? G irls aren’t the enemy; they should be working with you against a common enemy. Stick up for your fellow girl, and they’ll stick up for you. There is a trend I keep seeing among my friends: they change themselves to fit someone else’s ideas. They change something just so that they can fit in or just so they can stay in a relationship. I never want you to do that, I never want you to change who you are for someone else. If you’re