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this is from a real diary by a 13-year-old girl in 1870. teenage girls are awesome and they’ve always been that way.
Read this - oh my goodness, this girl was wonderful.
Where can I read this in full?
It’s from
Real American Girls Tell Their Own Stories, and that particular section is by Martha Carey Thomas who grew up to be a suffragist, linguist and renowned educator, as well as a badass lesbian.
whoa i’ve seen this post a million times but i didn’t know the author had such a cool later life
M. Carey Thomas was also the first female president of Bryn Mawr College! Her ashes are interred on the campus and she’s a very important part of the school’s legacy. However like all historical figures, she is complex, and it would be ignorant to talk about her being a brilliant woman, a feminist, and a lesbian without acknowledging her well-documented racism and antisemitism (see 1916 section of this page). This doesn’t make her any less important to the school’s history, but it’s crucial to keep in mind that she was still a product of her time in many respects.
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