Quote of the day
Here I am, in Quaker surroundings, whose restful simplicity is most congenial to me. I feel here the earnest desire for genuine growth and culture which founds a slow but sure success. I am confirmed in my division of human energies. Ambitious people climb, but faithful people build.
Carrie Chapman Catt
Born: January 9, 1859
Died: March 9, 1947 (aged 88)
Bio: Carrie Chapman Catt was an American women's suffrage leader who campaigned for the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which gave U.S. women the right to vote in 1920.
Known for:
- Woman suffrage and politics (1923)
- The Ballot and the Bullet