Her Duty
Her Duty My mother always told me to be obliging and submissive before the men in my life. ‘Their lives and ours are too different to understand each other. You’ll make a better man of your husband if you are his wife, mother, nurse, and teacher, all at once. And the same for your sons and father. They don’t know it, but they need it. You should be obliging even when they don’t ask for your help,’ were her words of wisdom. I never forgot her lesson. I watched her oblige to my father’s every...