Quote of the day
I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
Born: May 28, 1941
Died: January 2, 2007 (aged 65)
Bio: Elizabeth Ann Fox-Genovese was a feminist American historian particularly known for her writing about women and society in the Antebellum South. She became a primary voice of the conservative women's movement. She was awarded the National Humanities Medal in 2003.
Known for:
- Within the plantation household (1988)
- Feminism is not the story of my life (1996)
- Slavery in White and Black