THREE STAGES OF A WOMAN'S LIFE

In "feminist" writing, it was a sad commentary that there were only three stages in a woman's life because women did not have their own identities as they were always dependent on a male for their own identities. The three stages are:

1. SOMEBODY'S DAUGHTER
2. SOMEBODY'S WIFE
3. SOMEBODY'S MOTHER

The saying didn't hit home, until one day, in talking to a teenager, she asked, in awe, "Wow, you mean that you're Neil Shirkey's AUNT?"