Quote of the day
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
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)