From Jone Johnson Lewis,
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1836: Elizabeth Garrett Anderson born (physician, mayor, sister of Dame)

1843: Bertha von Suttner born (writer, pacifist, Nobel Peace Prize winner)

1865: Helen Marot born (reformer, librarian, labor organizer, public official, writer)

1876: George Sand died (French novelist)

1970: Anna Mae Hayes (Nurse Corps), Elizabeth P. Hoisington (Women's Army Corps) become first U.S. women to be promoted to brigadier general.
(related article: " Of feminism and foxholes")

1983: Margaret Thatcher elected to a second term as Prime Minister ( story)

Quote for Today

Labor union men are like other men: they are not eager to trust office-holding to women. Labor union women are like other women; they lack the courage and determination to overcome the prevailing attitude that women are unfit to assume executive responsibility. It is the lack of the executive representation of women rather than lack of membership in the unions that endows the labor movement with a masculine point of view and limits it to masculine ability.

-- Helen Marot, 1914

The mind has no sex.

-- George Sand

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