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I really like Irene and Judith, but I just can't get into Martha. Maybe it's because of Martha Stewart or Martha White flour or the story of Mary and Martha, Lazarus' sisters, from the Bible (Mary sits at Jesus feet when he comes to visit while Martha bustles around the house trying to make it clean and be a good hostess, if I haven't got it backwards) but for me Martha is inextricably tied up with a sort of hopeless domesticity. Not that domesticity is bad, it's just not the image I prefer to get when hearing a name.