Thank you for that! What a remarkable life. Although I am a passionate feminist (in the old sense--wanting equal rights, not all the new issues recently incorporated into the movement) I think being a woman was the least of her difficulties. She was lucky to be alive at all. The odds of losing her in childhood or after (given her dangerous foraging exploits) were quite high.

Wow. I always appreciate my good fortune in life, but reading that bio really makes me pause and appreciate just how lucky I am.