The Clothesline Project is an organization that was developed to help women who are victims of domestic violence. Women can go to the website and create a t-shirt to help voice their emotions and then they add their t-shirt to a “clothesline” so that other women in similar situations can view their creation and hopefully find some healing from it. I think this is a great outlet for abused women to come to, I think it will help them see that they are not alone, and hopefully they will be able to vent about what they are going through and achieve some peace of mind.
When I read “The Trials of Girlhood” by Harriett Jacobs, I was really saddened by it. One of the quotes that I really found shocking was, “I was compelled to live under the same roof with him--where I saw a man forty years my senior daily violating the most sacred commandments of nature. He told me I was his property; that I must be subject to his will in all things.” This quote really disgusted me, I just felt terrible for her, nobody should have to go through that, and be called someone’s property. I felt really sorry for her and how disrespectful she had been treated. She was a human being, not an animal; therefore, she should be no ones property.
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