The history of your mother, aunt, grandmother or the woman who helped raise you is important. When you ask her questions about her life, you can often learn information about your own history. Maybe you will be allowed to borrow a photo of her and bring it to school to share with other students and your teacher. Interview a woman who is important in your life.

1. Where were you born? When?
2. Did you have sisters and brothers? What kind of relationship did you have with them? What kinds of things did you have to do when you were young?
3. What are the happiest memories of your childhood? The saddest?
4. What stories were told to you about the lives of your mother and grandmothers?
5. Where did you go to school? How long did you go? What did you like the best and the least about school? Did you have a best friend or a lot of friends? What was special about them?
6. What did you do on a typical day when you were ten years old? In what ways were your experiences similar to or different from those of other children?
7. Did you marry? How old were you? Did you have children? Was being a wife (and mother) as you had expected it to be? In what ways?
8. What sort of paid work have you done? For how long? Were you paid fairly? What was your money needed for? Was it enough?
9. What experiences or accomplishments in your life are you most proud of?
10. What women have had the greatest influence on your life?
11. Which historical events had a strong influence on your life?
12. What were the major problems you have had to overcome in your life?
13. How have ideas about women and women's roles changed since you were a child? What do you think of these changes?
14. If you had your life to live over, what would you do differently? What would you not want to change?

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