- “First, no woman should say, ‘I am but a woman!’ But a woman! What more can you ask to be? Born a woman - born with the average brain of humanity - born with more than the average heart - if you are mortal, what higher destiny could you have? No matter where you are nor what you are, you are a power - your influence is incalculable; personal influence is always underrated by the person. We are all centres of spheres - we see the portions of the sphere above us, and we see how little we affect it. We forget the part of the sphere around and before us - it extends just as far every way.”
-From Maria Mitchell in Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals, comp. Phebe Mitchell Kendall#I love Maria Mitchell #In 3rd grade we did a wax museum project #and we were all assigned a person to research and prepare a speech about #and we had a wax museum night where we dressed up as our people #and stood/sat there frozen until someone pressed a button #and then we said our speeches #and I was Maria Mitchell and she was awesome #what a BAMFin’ first female American astronomer
first of all, that sounds like the coolest project every and why didn’t I do that in elementary school
and second of all
SARAH YOU AND ME
YOU AND ME WILL USHER IN A NEW DAY OF APPRECIATION OF AWESOME WOMEN IN HISTORY, INCLUDING MARIA MITCHELL AND LOLA MONTEZ
WE SHOULD MAKE A SEPARATE BLOG THAT HAS THE SOLE PURPOSE OF APPRECIATING AWESOME WOMEN IN HISTORY. AND MARIA MITCHELL AND LOLA MONTEZ WILL BE OUR FIRST TWO POSTS.
ok there are already a few of them. but they are not us and therefore the internet is missing out on something awesome. we should do it.
I was just thinking that I’d like a new blog to post all my feminism related stuff. I’m reading this awesome history of American women (SERIOUSLY IT IS SO GOOD SARAH YOU SHOULD READ IT) and so I have a whoooooooooole lot of resource for that (is mostly primary sources so yissssssss). and yes ok. i want to do this
Source: lusilly
