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December 18

From Jone Johnson Lewis,
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This Day in Women's History

    1807: Phoebe Worrall Palmer born (religious writer, evangelist: Holiness movement)

    1814: Josephine White Griffing born (reformer: women's rights, anti-slavery, freedman's relief)

    1862: Barbara Frietschie died (see December 3)

    1934: Mary Harriman Rumsey, head of the Consumers' Division of the National Emergency Council (United States), died of complications after a fox hunting accident

    18-19, 1981: First United States National Collegiate women's Volleyball championships held

Quote for Today

    If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it's because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that's the most revolutionary insight of all.

    — Erica Jong

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