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Thursday, August 17, 2006

"I never realized until lately that
women were supposed to be the
inferior sex."
~Katharine Hepburn

Charlotte Forte Grimke, born this day
in 1837. In keeping journals of her daily
life-she gave the world a snapshot of the
life a free African Amercian in antebellum
North. A member of the Salem Female
Anti-slavery Society, a poet and educator.
Teaching in South Carolina during the 1860's
inspired her essays, "Life on the Sea Island"
published in The Atlantic Monthly. Later Ms.
Grimke was appointed clerk of the U.S.
Treasury Department.

Hazel Gladys Bishop, born this day in 1906.
A chemist and inventor, she was the first
woman to appear on the cover of Business
Week in 1951. Best known for inventing
non-smear lipstick. "Stays on you, not on him."
Kissproof lipstick launched her company
Hazel Bishop, Inc. making ten million in the first
years.