Momma was smart and alert, but taught to be the proper submissive southern daughter.
Here is one almost identical to Harou's spur-winning addition: My Great Grandmother could remember her father coming home from the Civil War. She lived to be almost 101 and was in her garden hoeing in a sunbonnet after her 100th. She was the oldest citizen in Easley, SC, known affectionately as "Aunt Melissa" Williams. Never a rich or pushy woman, but full of wisdom.
On day at Grandaddy's house she asked my father why women were treated so badly in Jesus' day.
Daddy slid over close to her and asked, "Do you really want me to tell you the truth?" "Yes," she replied.
"Well, Mrs. Williams, in Jesus' day women were just another piece of property for the Jewish man. If it came to a good donkey or a good woman, the man was just a likely to pick a donkey over a woman as not!"
Great Grandmomma gave him a shoulder slap as she declared, "Aw, Claude, that can't be true!" Daddy and Harou are both on target. Traditionalists had to have someone submissive to them to feel better about themselves---and that's not a good approach to human relationships when God made us all!