Katti Anker Møller | 
pickWhat a woman!
Katti (1868-1945) was born into one of the richest families in Norway, even if her dad lost his money. In her youth she was praised for her beauty and her dancing cards were always full. She could have lived a comfortable life
Instead she was in her teens when she started noticing how the numerous pregnancies were effecting her mother‘s health. She wasn‘t much older when she started noticing how the unmarried maids would disappear
AnneCecilie once they got pregnant. Despite proclaiming she would never get married, she married her cousin when she was 20 and had 3 kids. Before they got married, her fiancé had to find a priest that would marry them without including the text about how a woman should obey her husband. Her mother‘s situation and the maids, would be her guiding stars in the work she set out to do. Improving women‘s situation and to give them control over their own body. In (edited) 4w
AnneCecilie many of her ideas, she was decades ahead of her time, like a women‘s right to choose to have an abortion. Katti said on numerous occasions that a woman wasn‘t free until she could choose over her own body. She played a huge part in the children‘s laws that was passed in 1915 giving children born inside and outside of marriage equal rights and making it possible to punish men who didn‘t support their kids. She founded several mother‘s home and 4w
AnneCecilie wanted to change the stigma surrounding unmarried mothers. She would travel the country and give speeches about this, but soon learned that she wouldn‘t find support in the Women‘s Right Movement, but in the labor movement. Always thinking about the women, the first thing she did when the Nazis invaded Norway, was to burn the registry of all the women who had been in contact with the mother‘s home for prevention and all the letters she had (edited) 4w
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AnneCecilie received, knowing full well what the Nazis meant on motherhood. And as the book drew to a close, it also had me thinking about her husband Kai and what a remarkable man he must have been, standing by his wife‘s side as âeveryoneâ was against her opinions. Their oldest daughter continued her work. (edited) 4w
Dilara Wow! What a woman. I don't think I'd ever heard of her. Also, good on the Swedish government for passing the children's laws you mention. I think those were only passed in the 1980s in France... 4w
AnneCecilie @Dilara I know. I‘m not sure that many in Norway knew about her either. Hopefully this biography will change that. This was a library book and the waiting list has been long (edited) 4w
