Gail Carriger Quotes
Alexia had found pregnancy relatively manageable, up to a point. That point having been some three weeks ago, at which juncture her natural reserves of control gave way to sentimentality. Only yesterday she had ended breakfast sobbing over the fried eggs because they looked at her funny. The pack had spent a good half hour trying to find a way to pacify her. Her husband was so worried he looked to start crying himself.
Carriger, Gail. Heartless. Orbit, 2011.
Berman was referring to a letter Mink had written to Hubert Humphrey asking him to have Berman removed from the Commission on Party Structure and Delegate Selection of the Democratic Party. That letter stemmed from an incident that occurred at a Committee on National Priorities of the Democratic Policy Council meeting in April, 1970, in which Berman and Mink had gotten into a spat over the role of women. Berman had insulted Mink by claiming that women should not hold presidential and decision-making positions because of “hormonal influences.”
Gail Carriger is the pen name of Tofa Borregaard, an author of steampunk fiction and an American archaeologist. She was born in Bolinas, an unincorporated community in Marin County, California, and attended high school at Marin Academy. She received her undergraduate degree from Oberlin College, a masters of science in archaeological materials at England's University of Nottingham in 2000, and a master of arts in anthropology (with a focus on archaeology) at the University of California Santa Cruz in 2008. She is a 2010 recipient of the Alex Awards.
