Author: Bonnie Garmus
I saw recommendations for this book dropping in many unexpected places and felt compelled to put it on my reading list. The storyline is pretty simple. Elizabeth Zott is a brilliant chemist that is struggling to be taken seriously in the male dominated scientific establishment of the 1960s. Live throws all kind of curve balls at her, but she holds on to her beliefs and just marches forward. The book takes us through what life would be like for a woman living in the US in the sixties, and even just a few decades later it seems quite shocking to comprehend and internalize.
Some memorable quotes from the book are:
- You can’t fix it because the world doesn’t work that way. Life isn’t fair.
- when one is raised on a steady diet of sorrow, it’s hard to imagine that others might have had an even larger serving.
Overall, this is a quick and required read for anyone who wants to appreciate the huge distance that women have covered since the 1960s.
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