1792: Julia Evelina Smith born (suffragist)
1818: Amelia Jenks Bloomer born (writer, editor, dress reformer)
1819: Julia Ward Howe born (writer, reformer, clubwoman)
1844: May Wright Sewall born (educator, reformer)
1849: Alzina Parsons Stevens born (journalist, labor leader, Hull House settlement worker)
1861: Victoria Earle Matthews born (writer, reformer, clubwoman, social worker)
1907: Rachel Carson born (writer, biologist, reformer)
Quote for Today
Arise then, women of this day!
If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children, I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life.
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