Monday, September 28, 2015

Hello again! I'm finding that the answer to this problem is..simple, yet complex. Does that make sense? On the one hand, in my life as well as Dad's there were so many influential women that he could've drawn on. I mean looking at the people he knew while growing up, there was Emmeline Pankhurst, Ethel Byrne, Margaret Sanger, I mean these were all such prominent women in the time where women had no rights at all. And my Dad had close connections with all three. He attended a lecture where Emmeline spoke, and he was fascinated, he was distracted, and inspired. And the person that I'm named after was the daughter and niece of Ethel and Margaret. I mean, I always kind of thought that Wonder Woman was based on my Mom and Olive, but maybe it's more. Maybe it's a collection of all of the people he knew. Maybe she was only great because she wasn't based on one person, but based on many amazing women. Hmm.

Above is a picture of Ethel and Margaret. They both advocated and were active protestors in equality and wanted to educate women on birth control. They believed in free love, socialism, and feminism. They were fearless. Much like Wonder Woman, they believed in a cause and stopped at nothing to get it. Dad had to have had some inspiration from them. I mean these two were literally fearless. And Olive probably heard stories from them and they were reunited.

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