Ode to Aletta Jacobs | I am eternally grateful to you

Dear Aletta

You were already motivated to become a doctor when you were little and you

did not give up. Your father taught you Greek and Latin

and then you sent a letter to Thorbecke and he got you

admitted to the university. Where you were the only girl and

still you endured respect for that. Then it

succeeded and you got your doctor's degree then you could go

work as a general practitioner. And you even went to the Jordaan to help people.

free although your practice was not even in the Jordaan this just

just proves that you were and actually are a very nice person.

are. It went very well then because women would much rather go to a

female doctor than a male doctor I would myself

much rather go to a female than a male. But then

you also found that it was not fair that men could

vote and women could not so you continued to fight for the rights

for women such as voting, working and studying and continued

persuading people and so a 100 years later women were allowed

to vote so I am eternally grateful to you for all that you

done without you we wouldn't be able to vote, work and

study.

Greetings, Eloise from Saint Jan school 7b. Thanks for everything!