1800? Simple pleasures, virgin nature, inner and outer harmony – sounds romantic.
However, I wouldn’t want to live in 1800 and be a woman.
I wouldn’t want to be a woman with limited freedom or its complete absence, a young but exhausted mother to 6 children, a woman who lost her husband in the war with Great Britain, a woman who was trapped in poverty with the hope that some farmer would marry me and become a father for my children. I wouldn’t want to be a cleaning woman, a versatile worker, a laundress, who in return receives neither love, nor tenderness, nor care, nor kind words.
I know that our time has many shortcomings, but being an integrated, independent personality with the ability to build my life, to love and be loved is more important for me.
So, being a woman and living in 1800? No thanks. I’d rather live and be a woman in 2020.