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November 10

This Day in Women's History

By Jone Johnson Lewis, About.com

    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

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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