As women we strive for success, wanting to prove to men that we are more than just a pretty face. That women can do whatever they can, plus plenty more. We are raised to be ladies, to aim for marriage, to have ambition, and acquiescent to men. While women sometimes do the providing for their family, the cooking, and the cleaning, Laura Keene instead went out for her dreams. Laura Keene came to America before the civil war as an English Immigrant, looking to get her feet wet, she joins the leg show, and became one of the audience favorite’s (Ashby 108). Although Keene marriage did not last to her vagabond husband, she still had to provide for to kids (Ashby 108). So Keene was done with acting and altered her career by jumping into theater