A book that makes me happy.

Right now I'm writing an essay on the role of women in Canada throughout the 20th Century (it's for school... no, I don't just randomly write essays.) I went and got a couple books from the library to research it... and I seriously have fallen in love with one of them. It's called In Times Like These by Nellie McClung (she was a feminist who lived during the late 1800s-early 20th century.) She's really sarcastic and funny in the book, but she also very intelligently lays out a pretty decent argument for equality between the sexes, not only that, but also for all kinds of justice that is needed throughout the world. It's an old book, but it makes me want to get up and do something good. Here's a blurb or two...

"We have been travelling below our priviledges. There is enough for everyone, if we would get at it. There is food and raiment, a chance to live, and love and labor - for everyone; these things are included in our ticket, only some of us have not known it, and some others have reached out and taken more than their share, and try to excuse their 'hoggishness' by declaring that God did not intend all to travel on the same terms, but you and I know God better than that."

"Years ago people broke every law of sanitation and when plagues came they were resigned and piously looked heavenward, and blamed God for the whole thing. 'Thy will be done,' they said, and now we know it was not God's will at all. It is never God's will that any should perish! People were resigned when they should have been cleaning up! 'Thy will be done!' should ever be the prayer of our hearts, but it does not let us out of any resposibility. It is not a weak acceptance of misfortune, or sickness, or injustice or wrong, for these things are not God's will."