Blog 10: From The road from Coorain / Jill Ker Conway

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 Blog 10: From The road from Coorain / Jill Ker Conway

    

"The Road from Coorain" by Jill Ker Conway was very inspiring to read. I felt like I was able to get a lot out of learning about her life and the impact she was able to have on others' lives. Knowing how hard it was for women to first be able to attain an education and how much it was able to help women succeed in this world. Learning about how she was able to overcome these challenges and not only survive, but advance further than any other woman was able to before her. Something that I found especially interesting about this was how she had always had a love for education and she was able to take the love she had and turn it into something amazing. It was sad to learn about her rough patches but it made it even more inspiring that she was able to overcome them. I also thought it was interesting how when she had to move around, her relationship with her mother was also fragile. I wonder if this helped her with leaning into her education and using it as a cushion for her. Learning about Jill in "The Road from Coorain" makes me realize that women are able to do anything that they want. Even if no one has done it before you, you can break barriers and do anything you want in life. I think that I a lot of people, even if it is not to this extent, are able to relate to feeling like they want to break away from their parents whether that means their expectations or relations, which relates to Jill Ker Conway and her mother's relationship feeling like she needed to break away. 

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