Just as significant as Blankers-Koen's medals were the cultural barriers she hurdled, the barriers that said women should not compete in anything as vigorous and sweaty as track and field, that they were unwomanly if they did, that they would not be able to have children or would not succeed in sports as mothers, that their careers would be or should be washed up long before the age of 30.
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Instead, Peg pretends she is dying, and as Petruchio runs for a doctor, she reveals she is fine, and declares " you have taught me what'tis to be a Wife, and I shall make it my Study to be obliging and obedient, " to which Manly replies " My best Peg, we will exchange Kindness, and be each others Servants . " After the play has finished, the actress playing Peg steps forward and speaks directly to the audience as herself; " Well, I must own, it wounds me to the Heart / To play, unwomanly, so mean a Part . / What to submit, so tamely so contented, / Thank Heav'n!
