Quote of the day
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
Gabriela Mistral
Born: April 7, 1889
Died: January 10, 1957 (aged 67)
Bio: Gabriela Mistral was the pseudonym of Lucila Godoy y Alcayaga, a Chilean poet-diplomat, educator and humanist.
Known for:
- Selected prose and prose-poems
- Lecturas para mujeres (1923)
- Invitación a Gabriela Mistral
- This America of ours
- Motivos: The Life of St. Francis