1793: Sarah Bradford Ripley born (educated woman, Transcendentalist; married an uncle of Ralph Waldo Emerson)
1811: Jane Currie Blaikie Hoge born (relief worker, volunteer nurse; Sanitary Commission)
1816: Lydia Moss Bradley born (philanthropist)
1831: Sarah J. Smith Thompson Garnet born (educator)
1833: Amelia Stone Quinton born (reformer: Native American rights)
1858: Marion Talbot born (educator)
1860: Mary Vaux Walcott born (artist, naturalist)
1861: Helen Barrett Montgomery born (reformer, clubwoman, writer, church leader)
1939: Eleanor Smeal born (women's rights activist)
1951: Evonne Goolagong Cawley born (tennis player, 1971 Wimbledon winner)
Quote for Today
When her last child is off to school, we don't want the talented woman wasting her time in work far below her capacity. We want her to come out running.
-- Mary Ingraham Bunting, 1961
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