As soon as you bring up money, I notice, conversation gets sociological, then political, then moral.
The one thing ... maybe no family could tolerate was things coming out into the open.
Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.
There weren't too many books by women that were taught in school, so I read those on my own, and the books I read were as accessible as the ones we were reading in school.
People with good intentions never give up!
Like most of the educated, I do harbor a fondness for the sins of my ignorant past.