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.
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