Women's Birthdays & Milestones

August 26



Peggy Guggenheim b. 1898-art collector

Geraldine Ferraro b. 1935-1st woman US vice-presidential candidate

1920: US 19th Amendment ratified, woman suffrage

Women's Equality Day, US




Quote for the Day

"Let women be provided with living strength of their own. Let them have the means to attack the world and wrest from it their own subsistence, and their dependence will be abolished--that of man also."

~ Simone de Beauvoir

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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"