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'The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity..You can act to change and control your life.. the procedure, the process is its own reward'. Amelia Earhart, 1st woman to make a nonstop solo transatlantic flight @admirablewomen.bsky.social @womeninamerica.bsky.social 'Liberty is the equal right and heritage of every child of man, without distinction of race, colour or sex': Emily Hobhouse #BOTD 1860, humanitarian, pacifist, defied the British Empire to expose horrors of concentration camps during Anglo-Boer War @womenwarriors.com @admirablewomen.bsky.social 'I... learned how to reach and hold my audience—softly, with feeling.' #OTD in 1970 actor/singer/songwriter Peggy Lee won a Grammy for her song 'Is That All There is?' Wrote or co-wrote more than 270 songs & had a cocktail named after her: the margarita @singersongwriter.bsky.social #jazz #Grammys 'We make a gaudy havoc of our life/
And live a thousand ages in an hour' - remembering poet, actor, and bohemian Iris Tree, #BOTD in 1897. Studied at the Slade, published three volumes of verse and appeared in Fellini's La Dolce Vita @poetrysociety.org.uk @womenwritersnet.bsky.social '... the only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it' Remembering writer & designer Edith Wharton, #BOTD 1862, 1st woman to win Pulitzer Prize. Awarded Légion d'honneur for her war work in Paris in WWI & reported from front line @womenwriters.bsky.social @lrb.co.uk @nybooks.com #OTD in 1999, the #UN General Assembly designated 25 November as the annual International Day to Eliminate Violence Against Women. Just one example: years 898 female victims of domestic homicide in UK over the past 10 years. Still a long way to go... @unwomen.bsky.social @whiteribbonuk.bsky.social Remembering Indian freedom fighter and social activist Ramadevi Choudhury, #BOTD in 1899. Met Gandhi in 1921, following which she & her husband joined Non Cooperation Movement. Campaigned for abolition of untouchable status and, post independence, for land reform #womeninhistory @womenwarriors.com 'I can't afford the luxury of despair or pessimism. We still have to hope. We're a timeless people...' Remembering poet, artist and political activist Oodgeroo Noonuccal, #BOTD in 1920, the first Aboriginal Australian to publish a book of poetry @womenwritersnet.bsky.social @poetrysociety.org.uk 
