Standing Up for Your Choices — A Lesson from History

Standing up to disapproving family members isn’t easy, but it made one woman an empress.

Leigh Victoria Fisher, MS

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Standing up to disapproving family members to defend your relationship choices isn’t easy, but women have been standing up for what they want for hundreds of years — even in China in 170 CE. During the Eastern Han dynasty, a…

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Leigh Victoria Fisher, MS

Brooklyn-based writer and poet. Designer in NYC. Drinks books and loves coffee. Has an MS from NYU in Integrated Design & Media. Working on an MFA in Fiction.