Standing Up for Your Choices
Sep 6, 2018 · 5 min read

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…

