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May 23

This Day in Women's History

By Jone Johnson Lewis, About.com

    1810: Margaret Fuller born (writer, reformer, journalist)

    1826: Frances Fuller Victor born (writer, historian)

    1846: Arabella Mansfield born (lawyer, educator, suffragist; first woman admitted to the bar in the United States)

    1875: Kate Barnard born (prison reformer)

    1910: Margaret Wise Brown born (children's writer: Goodnight Moon and others)

    1926: Aileen Hernandez born (women's rights activist)

Quote for Today

    The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.

    -- Margaret Fuller

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