As I spoke with Kathleen Molitor Lively, I learned a great deal about her, but also about myself along the way. My mother has always been an inspiration to me in my current life, but after interviewing her about her past, I absorbed a lot from her that inspired me even more. I wanted to investigate her life and how she felt as a girl growing up, but what I enjoyed most was hearing how she grew up and how she was raised, which led to how she raised her children, including me . Here is the story of Kathleen Molitor Lively, who grows from a girl, becomes a woman and a mother. “I didn't know the difference between boys and girls. We were all friends. When I asked my mother about her life as a girl, she hesitated to answer because of the emphasis: "It was always embarrassing when it came to paying for a date because I knew a man's sense of pride, and I guess it was his ability to pay. The dating thing, I guess, is the idea that it supports you because it supports you in later life, but I thought it was stupid to make a guy pay all the time. I thought it was a stupid rule, but I didn't want to counter the system and I always felt confused about when I should cure or I should pay. This was a forward-thinking and progressive idea that my mother had. Most of the time the man should pay, but I really liked that my mother thought of wanting to pay or give the man a date I continued on the topic of her adulthood and explored her thoughts on the biggest challenges women face. She reacted: “Balancing family and career… I think it really is Like this. It's out of balance. When I was growing up, it was all about women's expectations and men's expectations. Housework, family and children are mothers' tasks. Dad's job is to go to work. But school fees increased so both parents had to work. We started thinking that we need to send our daughters to college to contribute to society and achieve humanity's goals. So, this led to renegotiating the work around the house. So the woman did everything. Working part-time was a luxury or not working until the children were in school. But women had to work in addition to remaining the primary housekeepers and caregivers