Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Ta goyi bayan tashin hankali na 1863
, kuma bayan 'yan shekaru ya auri wani mai fafutuka na tawayen, Laurynas Žymantas. Sun hadu ne a gidan, inda su duka suke aiki. Shekaru ashirin da suka biyo baya, Žemaitė ta yi aiki a gonarsu, ta yi renon yaransu, kuma ta yi yaƙi da talauci. A shekara ta 1883, iyalin suka ƙaura zuwa wani ƙauye kusa da Užventis. Ta yi hulɗa da Povilas Višinskis wanda ya ba ta wasu mujallu na Lithuania ("Aušra", "Varpas", da "Apžvalga"), kuma ya ƙarfafa ta ta rubuta da kuma shiga cikin farkawar Lithuania. An buga aikinta na farko, "Autumn Evening" (Lithuanian: "Rudens vakaras"), a cikin kalandar a 1895 lokacin da ta wuce shekaru 40. Višinskis da Jonas Jablonskis sun taimaka mata kuma sun shirya ayyukanta kuma sun ba ta shawara, kuma ta haka ne aka farka da baiwa.