Fabulous Female Fact: Margaret Fuller 1810 – 1850
What were we born to do? How shall we do it? Great Thinker, Journalist, Teacher, Book Reviewer, First Woman Allowed To Use The Library at Harvard Like Mary Wollstonecraft, Frances Wright, Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and countless others – Sarah Margaret Fuller believed that women were intellectually equal to men and spent her life […]
Fabulous Female Fact: Lucretia Mott
“I have no idea of submitting tamely to injustice inflicted either on me or on the slave. I will oppose it with all the moral powers with which I am endowed. I am no advocate of passivity.” Lucretia Coffin Mott did a lot; of vindicating of women’s rights. Born one year after Mary Wollstonecraft’s radical […]
Fabulous Female Fact: Frances (Fanny) Kemble
“To Be Or Not To – HEY! That Should NOT Be!!!!” Breadwinner, Actress, Wife, Mother, Poet, Author, Playwright, Divorcee, Family Savior, Abolitionist, Bloomer-Wearing Trendsetter…. Beautiful, talented British Fanny Kemble of the famous English theatrical family, was keen on acting but when her father was facing bankruptcy, she took to the Covent Garden stage playing […]
Fabulous Female Fact: Elizabeth Cady Stanton
“make the puddings and carry the baby while I ply the pen” (What she said to unmarried, non-mom and best gal pal Susan B. Anthony) Elizabeth Cady Stanton, super smart, greatly gifted and tremendously talented, was raised with privilege, education, and the knowledge that she would NEVER be treated equally because of her gender. Her […]
Fabulous Female Fact: Lucy Stone
“…women suffer taxation, and yet have no representation, which is not only unjust to one half of the adult population, but is contrary to our theory of government.” Lucy Stone 1818-1893 I’m A Lucy Stoner. Are you? She was the first gal to get hitched and keep her own name. From then on, any gal […]
Fabulous Female Fact: Prudence Crandall
Another great gal goes to jail. Her crime? Educating black girls. Prudence Crandall 1803-1890 A lucky educated Quaker teacher who wanted to share the gift of schooling, dear Prudence opened a private school for girls; The Canterbury Female Boarding School in 1831, in Connecticut. It was a gutsy move. Historically, education was denied to females, […]
Fabulous Female Fact: Julia Ward Howe
“Any religion which sacrifices women to the brutality of men is no religion” Julia Ward Howe (1819 -1910) Poet, Writer, Activist and Mother of six, was the recipient of many awesome honors including being on a postage stamp. Raised religiously to fight against slavery and for women’s rights, this busy, busy mom was the very […]
Fabulous Female Fact: Anne Hutchinson
“We do not mean to discourse with those of your sex” Mother Of The First Amendment ANNE MARBURY HUTCHINSON (1591-1643) Nurse, Midwife, Pioneer, Mother – of twelve or fifteen with nine or eleven surviving – (sources differ) was not your average, quiet, submissive housewife and mother of the Colonial period. The daughter of a […]
Fabulous Female Fact: Seneca Falls Convention – 1848
Waterloo, New York – A sleepy little suburb in upstate New York where timing, geography and a tea party brought a bunch of ovary acting mamas together to make history. Hostess Jane Hunt, MaryAnn McClintock, Martha Coffin Wright – sister of the visiting Lucretia Mott – considered the Mother of the women’s movement – whose […]
Fabulous Female Fact: Bella Abzug
Big mouthed funny hat wearing New Yorker who grew up working in her family’s store – “The Live and Let Live Meat Market”. Ran for congress at the age of fifty with the campaign slogan: “A Woman’s Place IS In The House”. She meant The House of Representatives. Ever hear of the Pentagon Papers? They […]
Fabulous Female Fact: Augusta Ada Byron, Lady Lovelace
Noble English mom and math whiz, she was the daughter of Lord Byron (who she never knew but is buried next to). She showed signs of her genius as a child. Her mother, a big math fan herself, had a huge influence on Ada’s life and the direction it took. Married briefly to the nomadic, […]
Fabulous Female Fact: Jeanette Rankin
Politician, Pacifist, Reformer. Jeanette Rankin became the first woman elected to the United States House of Representatives and the first female member of Congress on April 2, 1917. First order of business (after having a “Ladies Room” installed) was suffrage (the right to vote), which she got for women in her home state of Montana […]
Fabulous Female Facts: Victoria Woodhull
Wow what a story! What a life! What a shame! That no one knows who she is. She was…. the FIRST WOMAN TO RUN FOR PRESIDENT. Yes, in 1872, this often-married thirty-four-year-old mother of two (one with special needs) who eloped at the age of fifteen – ran (against Ulysses S. Grant) for president. Victoria […]
Fabulous Female Fact: Frances Wright
Frances, or Franny Wright, 1795-1853 is the first woman on record to speak in public – to both men and women! And she took a lot of heat for it. An orphaned Scottish heiress who lost her parents at the age of two or three (sources vary), Frances led a most fascinating life – full […]
Fabulous Female Fact: Lilly Ledbetter
She’s seventy, she’s a grandmother and she danced with the president at his Inaugural Ball! What an honor. For both of them. She’s Lilly Ledbetter of Alabama. Finally, after TEN YEARS, in January 2009, the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act became the first bill our hero, President Obama, signed into law. And she was […]

What Happened in October 2013?

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What happened in October 2013?

Well, aside from the government shutting down, fabulous females have been working hard to to enlighten our youth.

Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teenager shot by the Taliban for wanting an education AND the youngest person nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize – addressed the United Nations on October 11th – International Day of the Girl Child. Read all about it her “I Am Malala” book and campaign: http://www.malalafund.org

I am continuing my own share of enlightening! On Saturday November 9th I performed SHE’S HISTORY! for GIRLTOPIA – the Girl Scouts Teen Summit at The Los Angeles Convention Center.

I was and am SO inspired by Jennifer Lee’s amazing moving important documentary FEMINIST STORIES FROM WOMEN’S LIBERATION. http://www.feministstories.com Our girls – and boys – do not know what the Equal Rights Amendment is, so I told the lovely girls at the show ALL about the ERA EDUCATION PROJECT (http://eraeducationproject.com) and then turned them on to Alice Paul – who wrote it in 1921.

They THOUGHT they knew what feminism is (defined by Merriam-Webster as the belief that men and women should have equal rights and opportunities; organized activity in support of women’s rights and interests), so I showed ’em what a Feminist looks like:

But some of them knew about Sojourner Truth and Malala Yousafzai and it was so very cool chatting after with a bunch of young excited feminists! They really give me hope. One of the girls is dead set on becoming President. Here is what she wrote in my Comments Book:

Thank you for inspiring me! I hope to see you at my inauguration parade!

Guess which Girl Scout said it?

This is why I do this!

Who knew there were the Veteran Feminists of America? http://www.vfa.us I didn’t until I went to the conference here in Los Angeles. My good friend and colleague and uber Fabulous Female Paula Caplan wrote about it here…

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/science-isnt-golden/201309/much-needed-women-and-media-conference-energizes-inspires

So check out what some MORE of my colleagues are doing!

http://www.bravegirlswant.com/brave-girls-take-back-media.html

http://www.womenactionmedia.org

http://www.sheheroes.org

Listen to Fabulous Female Facts every THURSDAY at 8:20AM PST (or podcast anytime) on my fabulous female friend Nicole Sandler’s Radioornot.com.

And of course, as always, visit sheshistory.com.

Amy Simon Cultural Herstorian/Playwright/Performer
(310) 308-0947

She’s History! The Most Dangerous Women In America…Then And Now is a play and school program about women who make and made history.

Today’s Fabulous Female Fact: “I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.” Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) After suffering from “mental hunger and domestic drudgery” this privileged activist mother of seven demanded the right to vote in 1848 at the first Women’s Convention (that she called for and made happen).

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