Miriam, an immigrant from Russia, decides to break her parents’ old-world tradition and goes to college against their wishes:
No, my parents did not want me to go to college at all. They felt that college was not necessary for a girl at all. A girl was going to get married and have kids, and so on, and if I hadn’t lived in New York City, and been able to go to a City University, I would never have been able to go to college, because they didn’t have the money, and even if they had, they wouldn’t have spent it. They wouldn’t have thought it was important.
