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“women in between,” one might say; those who were neither upper-class, letter-writing society women nor union-organizing, working-class women.
“Just when had I become so self-absorbed? I was a form of self-preservation, I realized now; I had resolved that...I could survive Colonel Wood's cruelty if my heart, my mind, had shrunk to a size designed to absorb my own troubles only.”
― The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb
― The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb
“Never before had I imagined leaving home, but that wasn't because of lack of desire, only lack of possibility.”
― The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb
― The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb
“The final picture in the album was of Aunt Lovey and Uncle Stash, their black-and-white wedding photo. I hated that their picture came last, because it felt like they were saying goodbye.”
― The Girls
― The Girls
“...'it's not that you are too small, my little chick,but rather that the world is too big.”
― The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb
― The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb
“On the farm, in our first-floor bedroom, my sister and I were sheltered in the essence of normal. We were not hidden, but unseen. The orange farmhouse was our castle, our kingdom the fields around, and the shallow creek that bisected our property the sea we crossed to find adventure.”
― The Girls
― The Girls
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