- Leaves her husband for cheating on her, even though it's 1965 and nobody does that.
- Joins the foreign service and travels the world.
- Let's a tribe of nomadic people live in her yard in Niger, as long as they send all their girls to school.
- Is an alcoholic and dies an early death.
Or maybe a black woman who
- Goes to an Ivy league school the year after it becomes co-ed.
- Gets a law degree.
- Marries a white man when it's still illegal in 15 states.
- Rises to the top of a cut-throat law firm after the birth of her second child.
- Becomes a law professor.
- Quits law to become a world-famous artist.
- Suffers her whole life from chronic depression.
Or a woman who
- Is the first in her family to go to college.
- Joins the local police force when most women still don't work outside the home.
- Becomes a train engineer in the face of chronic sexual harrassment.
- Marries a doctor, quits her job, has five kids, and gets left by the doctor for a younger woman.
What about a woman who
- Overcomes racism and sexism to succeed in high school.
- Becomes valedictorian of her class.
- Is told by her parents that she cannot go to college because she is undocumented and was adopted illegally from a foreign country. She can't get a drivers license either, or fly in an airplane, or leave the country.
Or a 24 year old woman who
- Works her way into the WNBA as one of the incoming class of professional basketball players.
- Is convicted of sexual misconduct with a minor because she messed around with a precocious 16 year old girl, and the girl's parents want to prosecute her as revenge.
- She gets sentenced to seventeen years in prison.
Damn, you have to be dura to be a woman in this world. It just beats you down.
