1470/74: Angela Merici born (founded Ursuline order, canonized May 24, 1807)
1617: Pocahontas (Mataoka) buried (born about 1595, dies March 1617)
1857: Alice Henry born (author: The Trade Union Woman )
1866: Antonia Maury born
1905: Phyllis McGinley born
1943: Cornelia Ford, military pilot, died when another plane on the same air ferry mission clipped her plane's wing, crashing her plane.
1972: Equal Rights Amendment sent by Congress to the States for ratification.
Quote for Today
An archaeologist is the best husband any woman can have: The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
You’d better compile a collection
Of words that another has wrote.
It’s the shears and the glue
Which will compensate you
And fashion a person of note.
For poets have common companions,
Their fame is a wraith in the mist,
But the critics all quarrel
To garland with laurel
The brow of the anthologist, my son,
The brow of the anthologist!
To be a housewife is … a difficult, a wrenching, sometimes an ungrateful job if it is looked on only as a job. Regarded as a profession, it is the noblest as it is the most ancient of the catalogue. Let none persuade us differently or the world is lost indeed.
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