Happy birthday to Gemma Doyle!
If my calculations are correct, she would’ve been 132 today.
“And what, pray, have you done to better the lot of others? You call each other sisters, but are we all not sisters? The seamstress ruining her eyesight to keep her children in porridge? The suffragists fighting for the vote? The girls younger than I who would ask for a living wage, whose working conditions are so deplorable they were locked in a burning factory? They could make use of your precious help. It is daunting to be a woman in any world. What good does our power do us when it must be kept secret?”
The Sweet Far Thing, Libba Bray. (via butiloveyouinyourfuck-mepumps)
Possible reference to the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire? Honestly, Libba is part of the reason I’m a feminist.
(Source: hersunkendream)
The Order Reborn
“We’re alive with our new secret, with the way we belong to each other and to something other than the dull passing of hours with nothing to look forward to besides our routines. It makes me feel even more powerful than the whiskey, and I want it to go on forever.”
