Women's Birthdays & Milestones

August 20



Christina Stead b. 1902-Australian writer

Phyllis Diller b. 1917-comedian

Hannah Senesh b. 1921-heroine of Israel, diarist

Phoebe Snow b. 1950-singer

Amaterasu-Omikami, Shinto Procession for Sun Goddess Amaterasu, China




Quote for the Day

"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing. "

~ Agatha Christie

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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"