theghostofsomethingorother:

emmawriter:

lauraroselam:

rhube:

prairie-homo-companion:

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.

“oh yeah i got bored so i fucked around learned a foreign language and sewed a pair of slippers thatll probably last forever” how can i channel my energy this efficiently