1849: Lucy Rider Meyer born (physician, social worker, educator, Methodist deaconess)
1868: Mary Hunter Austin born (writer)
1878: Adelaide Crapsey born (poet)
1903: Phyllis Whitney born (children's writer)
1914: Marjorie Lee Browne born (pioneer African American woman mathematician)
Quote for Today
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Power is strength and the ability to see yourself through your own eyes and not through the eyes of another. It is being able to place a circle of power at your own feet and not take power from someone else's circle.
— Agnes Whistling Elk
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