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
i'll apple your turnover 