The story of Francoise and Julie is a fantastic story. What really caught my eye was in the beginning, Francoise and Julie seemed to be friends and partners, but in the second paragraph, it says that Francoise found Julie's health repulsed her. This made me a little uncomfortable. As I kept reading, I saw that Francoise was able to accept Julie's physical and mental health. She was able to look beyond that, and find a good friend in Julie. I always try to see the best in people, and not try to judge a book by it's cover. It's hard though. We are all human and we all make judgement calls within the first minutes or even seconds of meeting someone new. But, as Francoise and Julie's story shows, if you look beyond mental and physical disabilities, then you could form great friendships with people, and I think that's really beautiful.
" That spirituality was grounded in the notion that opportunities for women should not be limited to the two options traditional at the time: sexually active marriage with the family and social responsibilities that marriage implies, or virginal monastic life detatched from the world and generally hidden behind cloister walls."I could not imagine living in a world today where we have to pick either living a life where I have to have children and a husband and "responsibilities that marriage implies" (whatever that might mean...) or be a virgin and hidden away from the world. Why would they make you choose one or the other? I just don't understand why people back in the 15th 16th 17th centuries would think that this was the way to live. Imagine if those were the rules in today's society....Are you kidding?? We would all go crazy.
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