Women's Equality Day

Join the Nation in Celebrating Women's Equality Day, August 26, 2006

Voting is the foundation of our democracy. In this election year with the Voting Rights Act stalled in Congress, we are reminded that barriers to voting can still exist.

Women's Equality Day, August 26th is an opportunity to celebrate the vote and also an opportunity to remind others, especially our children, about the importance of voting.

Women's Equality Day, August 26, 2006, honors the 86th anniversary of women in the United States winning the right to vote.
To win the right to vote, women conducted a 72-year political campaign.
This political campaign began at the first women's rights convention at Seneca Falls in July of 1848 and ended with the passage of the 19th Amendment on August 26, 1920.
When you vote, you are taking action to support this democracy and to recognize the unrelenting tenacity and spirit of women who worked to secure the vote for women in the United States

Dorothy Parker

Belated HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DOROTHY PARKER (8/22/1893- 6/7/1967)

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Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
A medley of extemporanea;
And love is a thing that can never go wrong;
And I am Marie of Roumania.

And my favorite:

The Flaw in Paganism

Drink and dance and laugh and lie,
Love, the reeling midnight through,
For tomorrow we shall die!
(But, alas, we never do.)

Epitaphe D'Un Chat

From Epitaphe D'Un Chat

For three days now I have lost
My well-being, my pleasure, all my love.
My heart is almost breaking in me
When I speak or when I write
For Belaud my small grey cat
Belaud who was, by chance,
Nature's most beautiful work
Thus made, as cats are made,
Belaud whose beauty was such
That she is worthy to be immortal.

-Joachim Du Bellay