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You Go, Girls
On this date in 1848, a convention for Women’s Rights got underway in Seneca Falls, N.Y., calling for religious, economic and political equality. The media response was swift and furious. From the Philadelphia Public Ledger and Daily Transcript: “A woman is nobody. A wife is everything.”
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Here, here. And we keep showing them. I am thinking of Sally Ride today.
Sally Ride had such an amazing life. She really packed it into those 61 years. What an inspiration!