“Most men are ignorant — they don’t really understand. And so women have to just keep on with their determination and be relentless. We have to not relent.” 991: Bette Nesmith Graham Invented Liquid Paper (Wite Out was Her Knockoff Competitor) Born: 23 March 1924, Dallas, Texas, United States of America Died: 12 May 1980,…
“The law imprinted in all men’s hearts is to love one another. I will look to the whole world as my Country and all men as my brothers. We are made for cooperation and to act against one another is to act contrary to nature.” 983: Thea Christiansen Foss Founder of Foss Launch Company, Arguably…
“I wake up thinking about how we can be relevant, meaningful and prepared for the next opportunity or the next technological breakthrough.” 965: Andra Rush Founder of Rush Trucking (Now Known as Rush Group LLC) Birth Date Unknown, Most Likely Detroit, Michigan, United States of America Rush Group LLC is one of the largest Native…
963: Nell Donnelly Reed Founder of Nelly Don, an American Women’s Clothing Line Born: 6 March 1889, Parsons, Kansas, United States of America Died: 8 September 1991, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America Original Name: Ellen Quinlan Nell started sewing as a child to repair her family’s clothes. To say her family was large…
“Often I am the only woman in a crowd of two hundred or more horse dealers…Sometimes people come out to the stockyards to see in me a new curiosity, and there are a few who try to flirt or make sport of me. I just walk up to a group of such men and, looking…
938: Fereshteh Forough Founder, CEO, & President of Code to Inspire Born: 1985, Iran* Code to Inspire is the first school to teach girls coding in Afghanistan. Fereshteh is an education advocate for gender equality and women’s empowerment in developing countries. Fereshteh is one of eight children. Her family left Afghanistan after the Soviet Invasion…
“In my imagination I walk through our Dayton home, looking for [Orville] and all the dear family things that made my home. But I never find [Orville], and I have lost my old home forever, I fear.” 912: Katharine Wright Haskell Most Known for Being the Sister of Orville and Wilbur Wright Born: 19 August…
“She would also not waiver from her rules to appease her white customers in face of lost revenue; she demanded that employers treated her laborers with dignity” -Carrie’s son, Melvin 895: Carrie Crawford Smith Now This is How You Help the Unemployed Born: 1877, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America Died: 1954, Evanston, Illinois, United…
892: Olga Erteszek The Queen of Ladies’ Lingerie Born: 15 June 1916, Krakow, Poland Died: 15 September 1989, Brentwood, California, United States of America Olga had several patents (Wikipedia claims twenty-eight) for women’s undergarments–including the first nightgown with a built-in bra, the seamless bra, and her first product, a lacy garter belt (ooh la la)….
“That first loaf should have been sent to the Smithsonian Institution as a sample of bread from the Stone Age for it was hard as a rock and about one inch high.” 886: Margaret Rudkin Pepperidge Farm Remembers Born: 14 September 1897, Manhattan, New York, United States of America Died: 1 June 1967, New Haven,…