"Women Who Wake Up (Introduction by Dai Weina)·SHE Classic Badge Edition" Author: [US] Marilyn French Publisher: Beijing Yanshan Publishing House

Introduction · · · · · ·
Let’s meet Mira.

She is a small town girl who loves reading. She has been an independent and smart child since she was a child. She read Nietzsche and Paine at the age of fourteen. She finished all the textbooks on the first day of school, so the school had to let her skip a grade. But this was the United States in the 1930s. The most common profession for women was "typist" and the theme of life was "family". Her mother's greatest expectation for her was to "marry a good family". In a closed small place, her intelligence and independence made her an outlier. Over time, she succumbed. Like other girls, she got married hastily, wore a tight corset, learned to cook, kept the house in order, gave birth to two children, and tried to make herself a "good wife and good mother". Her husband had a decent job, and she also lived in a big house that many people dream of. She was elegant and always smiling. But only she knew that under the calm appearance of life, she was silently collapsing...