Taking Everything into Consideration
The problems of a working girl
Are more than meet the naked eye;
And life becomes a dizzy whirl
At times—and dizzy, too, am I.
I have not found the answer yet,
And this is just a working plan:
I shove along and do not fret,
Nor yet depend on any man.
To be a mother and a wife,
I'm often urged by all my kith
And kin—but as for husbands, life
Is easier without than with.
Copyright Credit: Margaret Fishback, "Taking Everything into Consideration" from I Feel Better Now. Copyright © 1932 by Margaret Fishback. Reprinted by permission of Anthony Antolini.
Source: I Feel Better Now (E. P. Dutton, 1932)