Wise Women Friday: Ruth Benedict

This is a new feature.  It is based on the theory that, while on Monday we need our goddesses to sustain us,  on Fridays we need words of wisdom to help us relax into the weekend.  So, this weekend, heed the call of Ruth Benedict, who said:

Go!  Live the life you covet for your child.*

*Ruth Benedict wrote this is in her journal when she found out that she was infertile.  She never had children.  But, like many mothers, she wanted more for her (imagined) children than she did for herself.  Childless, she gave herself permission to achieve her greatest ambitions and dreams.  And she did.  She went on to become one of the century's greatest anthropologists.  What dreams have you put on hold?  Is it time to reclaim them?