1856: Mabel Loomis Todd born: writer, editor
1893: Mabel Normand born: actor
1914: Daisy Lee Gatson Bates born: civil rights activist
1963: Maria Goeppert-Mayer won Nobel Prize for Physics - the first American woman and second woman to win that prize
1992: Church of England voted to ordain women (the first women priests were ordained March 11, 1994)
Quote for Today
Women need to know the myths which have determined both how we see ourselves and how society regards us.
— Carolyne Larrington
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