I do love school stories.

[slemslempike]

Okay, birthday CDs and a good book later (and having attacked the incipient spot and got the satisfyingly rubber nastiness out), I feel a little better. This is the last paragraph of the book that has cheered me up:

"But presently, when Anne is a surgeon with calm eyes and a steady hand, and Pamela perhaps a head-mistress, and Susan a member of Parliament, and Margaret a leisured lady, and Veronica a great psychologist - then it will be Anne and Veronica who share a flat and come home to each other with tales of their day's work, because of that odd knowledge of each other which they have and which both had the courage to follow in spite of the differences between them."

Josephine Elder, Thomasina Toddy 1927.

Comments

[alicamel.livejournal.com]

Glad you feel better hon. :) Yay books!

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

Thanks. Yay books indeed.

[jekesta]

oh, lovely last paragraph of cheer yes:) ::dances you::

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

Friendship! And careers!

[oursin.livejournal.com]

Awwww, bless! - and one or other of them will write a helpful book on the potential benefits of meaningful friendships in women's lives.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

It's so nice to have a book where the ideal future is spelt out and doesn't specify marriage and children, but does include high profile careers and female friendships.

[yiskah.livejournal.com]

Aww, that's a lovely final paragraph!

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

Isn't it? The whole book's rather nice, and focused on friendships.