True womanhood

"That's not how a lady behaves."
"Why are you so boyish? Can't you wear something more girly?"
"What have you just said? Those are not words a girl should utter!"
"Oh, do it more gently. You're a girl after all."
She stood there in a gaze. All those people correcting the way she acts. Correcting her. As if she couldn't do things, the way she wanted.
The voices constantly judging whatever she did. Even her career.
"You want to be an engineer? A woman? Isn't that for boys?"
"A woman's way of life is solely up to her," she whispered.