Women's Birthdays & Milestones

December 29

Madame de Pompadour b. 1721-influential French courtesan

Mary Tyler Moore b. 1936-actor, comedian

Marianne Faithful b. 1946-British singer, songwriter

Quote for the Day

"There are questions of real power and then there are questions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authority to begin to fight the real questions of power."

~ Karen Nussbaum

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ANNUAL EVENTS & CONFERENCES FOR DECEMBER

World AIDS Day: December 1

Asian Women's Center annual fund-raiser: 212-732-5230

Celebration of Craftswomen, juried crafts fair, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco: 415-361-0700

Contemporary Women Poets of the Americas Symposium: fax 219-631-8209

International Women in Leadership Conference, Perth, Australia: (09) 273-8143

Midwinter MiniFest, annual music & arts event, Chicago, IL: 709-584-1255

Raising Women's Voices, a student-run annual conference on gender issues: 609-258-5565

Women in Communications annual meeting of women journalists: 703-359-9000

Women, War & Peace Conference, women's peace movement, Israel: (2) 718-597; (2) 259-626

Women's Classical Caucus, American Philological Association: 914-698-8798

Women's Caucus, Modern Language Association annual meeting: 215-895-1820

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