From an Online paper by Miriam Claude Meijer, Ph.D. 03/01/05
Nancy Jenison, M.D. had a vision about what was possible for her. She had to go up against everything everybody else thought about what women like her should be doing. She followed her own inclinations, and, thereby in so doing, she pushed history forward. The independence and determination, which had enabled her to become one of the nation?s few female physicians, served her to the end.
In her retirement she was motivated to turn her efforts to civil rights. She had learned about her great, great-grandfather owning slaves; she took responsibility for her family and she paid it back. She took a wrong and made it right.
Nancy Jenison fulfilled maternal urges without herself having babies. She experienced joy and honor in finding ways of being a woman other than in having babies or even in being a mother. She did not make motherhood the end-all of being female. She nurtured, educated, and cared for (many) others beyond her personal home. Her femininity was channeled into a multitude of directions and she touched the lives of many people.
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