Women's Birthdays & Milestones

May 18



Gertrude Käsebier b. 1852-1st professional woman portrait photographer

Margot Fonteyn b. 1919-ballerina

1953: Jaqueline Cochran is 1st woman to break sound barrier




Quote for the Day

"'As a woman I have no country ... As a woman my country is the whole world."

~ Virginia Woolf

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ANNUAL EVENTS & CONFERENCES FOR MAY

Asian Heritage Month
National Feminist Bookstore Week: May 13-20
May Day, International Workers Day: May 1
Mother's Day: 2nd Sunday
World YWCA Day: last Wednesday


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