Isabel

Men bring up children differently than women.

I mean, my dad didn't teach me to ride horseback.

He just threw me on a horse and told me to go.

You know, a woman wouldn't do that, you know.

Not likely.

My father was quite fond of me, actually.

How far did you go in school?

Just grade nine.

I took grade nine by correspondence.

No.

Yeah, school was an important thing to me because I felt that's how you'd make your living.

But I remember when I was through school, my stepmother looking in the paper and she found a dishwashing job for me.

She thought that all I was capable of was washing dishes in some restaurant.

I felt very insulted.

It always surprised me when kids didn't want to get all the education they possibly could.

There's only so far you can go in basketball.

I always felt your education was more important.

But as a kid, sometimes you don't see that.

I knew I tried to teach her to be self-sufficient because I knew that she'd only have herself to depend upon.

Not much of anything that I can remember.