Writing Women's History: starting with your mother

In 2004 Marilyn Norry sent a challenge to women actors in Vancouver Canada: write the facts of your mother's life, just the facts, from beginning to end.

It was the start of My Mother's Story, now a worldwide campaign to empower both women and men to see their mothers as women in their times -- accomplishing goals, witnessing history, surviving as well as they could. These are the extraordinary stories of ordinary women that tell the truth of how women of the 20th century truly lived. Writin...