Standing Up for Your Choices

Leigh Fisher
Sep 6, 2018 · 5 min read
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Standing up to disapproving family members to defend your relationship choices isn’t easy, but women have been standing up for what they want for hundreds of years — even in China in 170 CE. During the Eastern Han dynasty, a young woman known as Lady Wu did just that.

Lady Wu was orphaned at a young age and lived with her brother and distant relatives. While hardship struck her young, she was still from a…

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Leigh Fisher

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Writer and poet from Neptune. No, not the farthest planet from the sun, but Neptune, New Jersey. I work in communications and instructional design in NYC.

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