Because I am a girl
My grandmother was born a girl into a family that would never allow her to go to school or learn, the two things she wanted most. She had told me once that she would sometimes sneak out and hide near the school windows to just hear the teachers and learn what she could. Then they married her to my grandfather. She sent all her kids to school and she helped them study every night so that she could learn as well. She was the smartest, strongest woman I have ever met. That I will ever meet. I often imagine what she would've become had they let her study. Sometimes I think a teacher for sure...