Women's Birthdays & Milestones
December 16
Jane Austen b. 1775-novelist
Margaret Mead b. 1901-anthropologist
Helen Vaughn Michel b. 1932-chemist
Liv Ullmann b. 1939-Norwegian actor
Day of Sapientia, Roman Goddess of Wisdom
Quote for the Day
"Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really frightening."
~Gertrude Stein
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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"
