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
Mary Robinson
Born: May 21, 1944 (age 80)
Bio: Mary Therese Winifred Robinson served as the seventh, and first female, President of Ireland from 1990 to 1997, and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, from 1997 to 2002.
Known for:
- A Voice for Human Rights
- Memoirs of Mary Robinson, Perdita
- Beaux and Belles of England
- Poems, 1791
- You Are a Success! (1991)