Meanwhile his extraordinarily gifted sister, let us suppose, remained at home. She was as adventurous, as imaginative, as
agog to see the world as he was. But she was not sent to school. She had no chance of learning grammar and logic, let alone
of reading Horace and Virgil. She picked up a book now and then, one of her brother's perhaps, and read a few pages. But then
her parents came in and told her to mend the stockings or mind the stew and not moon about with books and papers. They
would have spoken sharply but kindly, for they were substantial people who knew the conditions of life for a woman and loved
their daughter-indeed, more likely than not she was the apple of her father's eye. Perhaps she scribbled some pages up in an
apple loft on the sly, but was careful to hide them or set fire to them.
Make a text-to-self connection to the passage. For example, describe a time in which you felt pressured to act according to
your gender role rather than your preference.