1815: Anna Ella Carroll born (political writer)
1824: Eliza Allen Starr born (religious writer)
1829: Abigail Jemima Hutchinson Patton born (singer, reformer)
1848: Sarah Barnwell Elliott born (writer, suffragist)
1857: Mary Garrett Hay born (suffrage and temperance reformer, Republican; lived with Carrie Chapman Catt)
1880: Elisabeth Irwin born (educator)
1915: Ingrid Bergman born (actress)
1945: Wyomia Tyus born (athlete)
Quote for Today
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Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.
-- Hannah Arendt
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