1850: Mary Murfree born (author)
1857: Kate Harwood Waller born
1862: Edith Wharton born
1888: Neysa McMein born
1925: Maria Tallchief born
1968: Mary Lou Retton born
1985: Penny Harrington becomes the first woman police chief in a US major city (Portland, Oregon).
Quote for Today
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We are human beings first, with minor differences from men that apply largely to the act of reproduction. We share the dreams, capabilities, and weaknesses of all human beings, but our occasional pregnancies and other visible differences have been used -- even more pervasively, if less brutally, than radical differences have been -- to mark us for an elaborate division of labor that may once have been practical but has since become cruel and false.
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