1492: Marguerite of Navarre (Marguerite of Angoulême) born (Queen of Navarre, Renaissance writer, humanist patroness)
1864: Lizzie Plummer Bliss born
1865: Mary White Ovington born
Quote for Today
We want rights. The flour-merchant, the house-builder, and the postman charge us no less on account of our sex; but when we endeavor to earn money to pay all these, then, indeed, we find the difference.
-- Lucy Stone
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