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Maya Angelou
Hannah Arendt
Karen Armstrong

Bettina von Arnim
Daisy Ashford

Maya Angelou
b. 4-4-1928; Missouri

"Here on the pulse of this new day
You may have the grace to look up and out
And into your sister's eyes, into
Your brother's face, your country
And say simply
Very simply
With hope
Good morning."
On the Pulse of Morning

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Hannah Arendt
b. 10-14-1906; Hanover, Germany
d. 12-4-1975; New York

Hannah Arendt, who described herself as a political theorist and not a philosopher, dealt with the nature of power, and the subjects of politics, authority, and totalitarianism. In addition to publishing numerous books, she reported on the Eichmann trial, and taught at the university level.

Hannah Arendt quotes ~
• “Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.”
• “Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence.”
• “Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.”
• “Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.”
• “The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.”

Karen Armstrong
b. 11-14-1944; England

Karen Armstrong, author of A History of God, is a former Catholic nun.

Karen Armstrong quotes ~
• “Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants to wipe out religion.”
• “Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States.”
• “There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too.”
• “Now I think one of the reasons why religion developed in the way that it did over the centuries was precisely to curb this murderous bent that we have as human beings.”
• “Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death.”

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Bettina von Arnim,
German Writer
b. 4-4-1785; Frankfurt
d. 1-20-1859; Berlin

Though best known for her friendships with famous men such as Goethe, Schumann, Liszt, and Brahms, Bettina von Arnim was a writer, musician, and artist exemplifing the Romantic era. It is possible she was the “Immortal Beloved” of Beethoven.

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Daisy Ashford
née Margaret Mary Julia Ashford
b. 4-7-1881; England
d. 1-15-1972

Daisy Ashford is most remembered for her The Young Visiters (sic), written when she was nine years old. The story, about upper-class, late 19th century society in Victorian England, was published in 1919 after she found the notebook tucked away in a drawer. ... FYI - Miss Ashford had dictated her first story to her father when she was four.

Margot Asquith
b. 2-4-1864; Scotland
d. 7-28-1945

Margot Asquith, (née Emma Alice Margaret Tennant), second wife of H H Asquith (British PM 1908), Married 1894

Margot Asquith quote:
• "Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life. "

Mary Astell
b. 11-12-1666; Newcastle upon Tyne, England
d. 5-11-1731; breast cancer

Considered the first English feminist, author Mary Astell advocated an education for women that would extend their choices beyond being only either a mother, or a nun.

Astell's best known books, A Serious Proposal to the Ladies, for the Advancement of Their True and Greatest Interest (1694) and A Serious Proposal, Part II (1697), were outlines of a new type of institution, a protected environment, for women to assist in providing women with both religious and secular education.

Mary Astell quotes ~
• “If all Men are born free, how is it that all Women are born Slaves?”
• “Women are not so well united as to form an Insurrection. They are for the most part wise enough to love their chains, and to discern how becomingly they fit.”