Quote of the day
You must have no dependence on your own genius. If you have great talents, industry will improve them; if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency.
Alix Kates Shulman

Born: August 17, 1932 (age 92)
Bio: Alix Kates Shulman is an American writer of fiction, memoirs, and essays, as well as one of the early radical activists of second-wave feminism.
Known for:
- Memoirs of an ex-prom queen (1972)
- Drinking the rain (1995)
- To Love What Is (2008)
- A good enough daughter (1999)
- Burning Questions: A Novel (1978)