Thursday, July 20, 2006

"Become the change you want to see-
those are the words I live by."
~Oprah Winfrey

Born this day in 1872 one of the stars of
Texas- Hortense Sparks Ward. The
first woman to pass the Bar in Texas
to become a lawyer for change in equals rights for
women-reformer of the "married women's
property rights of 1913".

Janet Reno was born this day in 1938; to become the
first woman U. S. General Attorney.

And on this in 1960, Sirimavo Bandaranaike was elected
Prime Minster of Ceylon--the first woman prime minster in
history.