I am a 23 year old university student in my 5th year of a Women’s Studies/Religious Studies double major. I have a passion for history and books and learning. My plan at the moment is to gt my PhD and become a professor (we’ll see how well that works out).
top five historical lady badasses: marquise émilie du châtelet (france, 1706-1749AD)
“This combination of beauty and genius, of lover and philosopher in a female body, never ceased to amaze Voltaire and his friends. He bragged that Du Châtelet was ‘unique’; she went through Pope’s Essay on Man with greater facility that he, and algebra as if it were a novel. She was a woman led by the lights of reason who… had ‘retired from the bubbles and stunning noise of Paris to cultivate in the country the great and amiable genius she is born with.’ (J. Zinsser)
(via backfromthedeadred)
