11-01-1994 Women of Achievement and Herstory

     "One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of

fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them."

     --Virginia Woolf

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E. 11-01-00000, All Hallows Day according to the "old religions."

All Saints Day according to the Roman Catholic Church.

B. 11-01-1811, Frances Miriam Berry Whitcher, author, primarily of

humorous insights into the village life of her time.

Event 11-01-1848, Boston Female Medical School, opened its doors as the

first all-woman medical school in the US; now a part of Boston

University School of Medicine.

B. 11-01-1858, Mary Adelaide Nutting, instrumental in raising the

standards of nursing education and requirements, as well as

accomplishing significant breakthroughs in hospital administration,

public health, and home economics.

B. 11-01-1872, Helen Fuller Orton, author of more than 35 historically

accurate books which sold more than a million copies for children.

Event 11-01-1921, the American Birth Control League is founded by

Margaret Sanger.  Dissemination of birth control information was a

jailable offense in the United States at the time although men in the

army were given condoms bought with tax dollars as "disease

preventers."

B. 11-01-1928, Irene Stuber author and compiler of Women of

Achievement and Herstory.

E.  11-01-1961, an estimated 50,000 women demonstrate world-wide in

Women Strike for Peace in opposition to nuclear weapons.

Quote du jour -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

     "Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win."--Bernadette

Devlin

     "Age is not a handicap. Age is nothing but a number. It is how

you use it."      --Ethel Payne

     "I shall not grow conservative with age."  --Elizabeth Cady Stanton

     "I'd rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be

seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV."   -- Janis Joplin

     "The old woman I shall become will be quite different from the

woman I am now. Another "I" is beginning, and so far I have not had

to complain of her."  --George Sand in Isadora

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     "Get it right, I'm not a humanitarian. I'm a hell-raiser."

     -- Mother Jones

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(C) 1994 Irene Stuber, PO Box 6185, Hot Springs National Park, AR

71902, irenestuber@delphi.com. Distribute verbatim copies freely with

copyright notice for non-profit use. Don't let anyone tell you there

weren't notable and effective women throughout history.  They were

always there, but historians failed to note them in our histories so that

each generation of women has had to reinvent themselves.