Quote of the day
No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.
Flora Tristan
Born: April 7, 1803
Died: November 14, 1844 (aged 41)
Bio: Flora Tristan was a socialist writer and activist. She made important contributions to early feminist theory, and argued that the progress of women's rights was directly related with the progress of the working class.
Known for:
- The worker's union
- Pereginaciones de Una Paria
- Peregrinations of a pariah
- Promenades dans Londres (1840)