Quote of the day
With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not — they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.
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