Quote of the day
The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).
Matilda Joslyn Gage
Born: March 24, 1826
Died: March 18, 1898 (aged 71)
Bio: Matilda Electa Gage was a suffragist, a Native American rights activist, an abolitionist, a freethinker, and a prolific author, who was "born with a hatred of oppression".