Quote of the day
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
Rickie Solinger

Born: 1947 (age 78)
Bio: Rickie Solinger is an independent historian, curator, and lecturer whose work focuses on reproductive politics, welfare politics, politics of incarceration, race and class, and motherhood.
Known for:
- Pregnancy and power (2005)
- The abortionist (1994)