Abstract
Wider opportunities have been opened for blind women by the various civil rights movements of the past two decades. By acceding to the limited roles traditionally imposed on them by parents, teachers, and other authority figures, blind females have perpetuated beliefs in their essential helplessness and dependency. This image must now be overturned. Preparation, persistence, and performance are the keys to achieving the needed reversal.
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