Vivie's Commonplace Book

Vivie Warren:

Seeing this photo reminds me of when I found out about my mother’s job and how she was hiding so much of her life from me.I didn’t know what to do or how to feel. I felt like my life was a lie. All that time, I was trying to become my own person. I didn’t want to be tied down by a man. That’s why I always got irritated when my mother kept asking me about Frank. I pride my education and how hard I worked to become an educated, young woman. To find out that my mother has been a prostitute my whole life was absurd. I have been trying to defy gender stereotypes, that women…

Vivie Warren: 

I love reading and educating myself with every opportunity I can get. I read the newspaper every single day when I get it. When I read the newspaper this morning, I was so disappointed. It’s not that I was shocked, because this is how women have been treated. It is ridiculous that we can not even wear the things that we want to put on our bodies. We have men making the rules for what is “acceptable to wear” and I am NOT standing for that. Us women should be able to make our own decisions of what we want to wear and what we feel comfortable in. Don’t…

Vivie Warren:

I love that our society is standing up for equal pay and rights for women! It is completely and utterly unfair for women to be working just as hard, most of the time harder, then men and we get paid significantly less! I went to school and got a great education so that I could work to the best of my abilities and get the best job I could so that I can make more money. Even though it is “wrong” for me to speak up and support women, I am going anyway because I want to break those stereotypes of us being weak and only looked at for our beauty. Women are finally getting…