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Clarence & Lilly Pickett
Harold Pinter

Christine de Pizan
Beatrix Potter

Clarence & Lilly Pickett
b. 10-19-1884; Cissna Park, IL (raised in Kansas)
d. 1965

Quaker Clarence Pickett, who “represented the oppressed, the persecuted, the disadvantaged, the underdog of every color, race, religion, and nation”, served as the executive secretary of the American Friends Service Committee from 1929-1950.

Harold Pinter
b. 10-10-1930; London
d. 12-24-2008

Playwright, screenwriter, poet, director, actor and political activist Harold Pinter was the 2005 Nobel Prize for Literature recipient for “who in his plays uncovers the precipice under everyday prattle and forces entry into oppression's closed rooms.”

Pinter was married to biographer Antonia Fraser.

Harold Pinter quotes ~
• “Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.”
• “I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?”
• “I think it is the responsibility of a citizen of any country to say what he thinks.”

Christine de Pizan
b. c.1362; Venice, Italy
d. c.1431

Christine de Pizan was a feminist philosopher and first professional women writer in the medieval era. Her first works as a writer was to provide for her family after the death of her husband. She then became a critic of Jean de Meun who slandered women in his Romance of the Rose.

The illustration for the presentation frontispiece of Christine de Pizan presenting her Collected Works to Queen Isabeau of France consists solely of females.

Christine de Pizan quotes ~
• “Just as women’s bodies are softer than men’s, so their understanding is sharper.”
• “This woman in love with scholarship intends, to be sure, that woman should acquire learning: but it must be for the purpose of developing her intelligence, or raising her heart to serious things, not of widening her field of ambitions, dethroning man.”
• “I say it to thee again, and doubt never the contrary, that if it were the custom to put the little maidens to the school, and they were made to learn the sciences as they do to the men-children, that they should learn as perfectly, and they should be.”

Beatrix Potter
b. 7-28-1866; London
d. 12-22-1943

Beatrix Potter, best remembered as creator of Peter Rabbit, played an important role in protecting some of England's most beautiful landscapes from Hill Top, her beloved Lake District farmhouse.

Beatrix Potter quote ~
• “I hate publicity, and I have contrived to survive to be an old woman without it, except in the homey atmosphere of Agricultural Shows.” [1939 interview]

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Helen Prejean, CSJ
b. 4-21-1939; Baton Rouge, LA

Sr. Helen Prejean is an advocate for ending capital punishment. She came to the general public's attention with her autobiography Dead Men Walking.

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
b. 1-15-1809; France
d. 1-19-1865

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon was mutualist philosopher and socialist who espoused a peaceful social revolution of workers' associations or co-operatives, and individual worker/peasant possession, over private ownership or the nationalization of land and workplaces.