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Thanks For Being Here - PT's Essay "To Be A Woman"

Thanks For Being Here - PT's Essay "To Be A Woman"

Update: 2025-11-16

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In 1974, a suburban housewife named Pat Tiehel (aka PT), submitted an essay to a women's magazine about being angry at a system that gave her education and aspirations, then kept her pinned up at home. The magazine rejected it. One year later, everything changed. This is the essay PT's daughters found tucked away in their mom's papers after she died—a document of wanting more...and what happened next.

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