May 20, 2011

• #58 Barbara Everett Heintz – Marriage, according to how I was brought up, included, “Keeping house,”  “Serving your man,” “Coming to know your neighbors,” and make certain that you took every suggestion which your mother-in-law had to offer, because by doing these things, you were automatically became a good wife.  I kept getting called back to The American Society of International Law, because they had not found a suitable replacement, and I worried about money. Oh how I worried about money, because there was always this gnawing fear that I would be without it again and I did not know how to ask my husband for help, but he did kindly and voluntarily paid off my two hundred dollar student loan which I so worried about on my wedding day. In my heart, I was caught between a new order where women were expected to have a career and the old model of the wife as homemaker. Most of my Appalachian sisters were not faced with that dilemma yet;  But I was in D.C. and I knew that something more was expected of me.

   

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