Women's Birthdays & Milestones

August 18



Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit b. 1900-Indian independence activist, politician, ambassador, Pres. UN General Assembly

Shelley Winters b. 1922-actor

Elaine Boosler b. 1952-comic




Quote for the Day

"No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother."

~ Margaret Sanger

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ANNUAL EVENTS & CONFERENCES FOR AUGUST

Women's Equality Day, commemorates US women's suffrage, 1920: August 26


Reprinted from The WomanSource Catalog & Review's, "women's perpetual calendar"