TITL: 15 Great Women in History
COMP: National Women's History Project
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NOTE: This quiz will hopefully pique your curiosity about these fifteen incredible women and inspire you to learn more about their lives. This quiz was submitted by the kind folks at the National Women's History Project. Check it out on the web at www.nwhp.org.
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Chien-Shiung Wu
Clara Barton
Dolores Huerta
Eleanor Roosevelt
Harriet Tubman
Jane Addams
Jovita Idar
Madam C.J. Walker
Maria Tallchief
Marian Anderson
Mary Harris "Mother" Jones
Mary Katherine Goddard
Queen Liliuokalani
Rachel Carson
Sarah Winnemucca
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'Achievements
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She came to the U.S. when she was a teenager to study science and stayed to become "the world's foremost female experimental physicist." Her most famous experiment disproved what had been thought to be a fundamental scientific law. Who is this outstanding scientist?
Chien-Shiung Wu
?Chien-Shiung Wu (1912 - 1997) received both the National Science Medal and the internationally respected Wolf prize for her scientific research. Her most famous experiment proved that the Law of Parity is not conserved in beta decay.

In 1944, she was invited to join the Manhattan Project team at Columbia University in New York City. In support of the US' secret development of the atomic bomb, she developed better instruments to detect radiation.
Chien-Shiung Wu
?Wu's innovations allowed her team to monitor "beta decay" (nuclear radioactive emissions) and to separate out the fissionable isotope of uranium (U-235) from its more stable counterpart (U-238).

She was the first female instructor in the physics department of Princeton University as well as the first woman to receive an honorary doctorate from Princeton.
Chien-Shiung Wu

Upon learning that no provisions had been made for taking care of Union soldiers, she advertised in newspapers for donated supplies and took them directly onto battlegrounds to get food, bandages, and medical supplies to the wounded. 
Clara Barton
?Clara Barton (1821 - 1912) was known as the "Angel of the Battlefield".

She has been called the first missing persons specialist, helping to document the 22,000 men killed or missing in the Civil War so their families could be notified.
Clara Barton

Directed by her doctor to go to Europe for some rest, she arrived and soon found herself in the midst of the Franco-Prussian conflict, working with the International Red Cross to distribute supplies in France and Germany. Upon returning to America, she almost single-handedly waged the campaign that began the American chapter of the Red Cross, of which she became the first president.
Clara Barton

She wrote the "American Amendment" to the Red Cross constitution, which provided for disaster relief during peace time as well as war. 
Clara Barton

After teaching grammar school, she left her job because in her words, "I couldn’t stand seeing kids come to class hungry and needing shoes. I thought I could do more by organizing farm workers than by trying to teach their hungry children."
Dolores Huerta

She was instrumental in passage of legislation allowing voters the right to vote in Spanish, and the right of individuals to take the driver’s license examination in their native language.
Dolores Huerta

She was instrumental in securing Aid For Dependent Families ("AFDC"), for the unemployed and underemployed, and disability insurance for farm workers in the State of California.
Dolores Huerta

Along with Cesar Chavez, she co-founded the United Farm Workers union in 1962.
Dolores Huerta
?Dolores Huerta (b. 1930), a long-time Chicana labor activist, co-founded the United Farm Workers union in 1962. She served for over two decades as the union's vice-president and chief lobbyist, savvy labor contract negotiator, and nationwide speaker.

Robert F. Kennedy acknowledged her help in winning the 1968 California Democratic Presidential Primary moments before he was shot in Los Angeles.
Dolores Huerta

She spearheaded legislation granting amnesty for farm workers that had lived, worked, and paid taxes in the United States for many years but were unable to enjoy the privileges of citizenship. This resulted in the Immigration Act of 1985.
Dolores Huerta

She took her job as "First Lady" seriously, traveling the country and the world to gather information about the problems and concerns of workers, children, minorities, and the poor. She wrote a daily newspaper column and made frequent radio broadcasts. Who was this active wife of a president?
Eleanor Roosevelt
?Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) was America's First Lady for 12 years.

Along with two female business partners, she opened a furniture factory as well as a girls seminary where she taught history and government.
Eleanor Roosevelt

She defied segregation laws when she sat between whites and blacks at the Southern Conference for Human Welfare in Birmingham, Alabama.
Eleanor Roosevelt

She was elected as the chairperson of the United Nations' Commission on Human Rights, which drafted the historic Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Eleanor Roosevelt
?The eight-member drafting committee prepared the preliminary text of the Universal Declaration and then revised the draft declaration in light of replies from Member States. The draft was submitted it to the General Assembly, which scrutinized the document, with the 58 Member States voting a total of 1,400 times on practically every word and every clause of the text. On December 10, 1948, the United Nations General Assembly unanimously adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, with 8 abstentions. Since then, December 10th is celebrated every year worldwide as Human Rights Day.

John F. Kennedy appointed her as chair of the President's Commission on the Status of Women.
Eleanor Roosevelt

During the Civil War, one of the most important Union spies and scouts was a Black woman who had escaped from slavery. Can you name her?
Harriet Tubman
?Harriet Tubman (1820-1913).  After her escape from slavery, she returned nineteen times to the South, leading over 300 people in their escape from slavery via the system of safe-houses known as the Underground Railroad.

Sara Bradford wrote a book about her in which she was referred to in the title as "The Moses of Her People".
Harriet Tubman
?Like Moses, she was able to lead her people to an escape from slavery.

She opened "Hull House" in a run-down Chicago neighborhood, a community center to improve conditions for poor immigrants.  The program of English-language classes, childcare, health education and recreational opportunities soon inspired hundreds of other settlement houses throughout the country.
Jane Addams
?Jane Addams (1860-1935).  One of the first generation of female college graduates at a time when the world was not yet ready to give educated women positions of responsibility, she found her own way to lead an extremely productive life.

She was the first American Woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.
Jane Addams
?An active reformer throughout her career and a leader in the woman's suffrage and pacifist movements, she was awarded the 1931 Nobel Peace Prize for her lifetime dedication to the cause of international peace.

When the Mexican Revolution of 1910 reached the Texas border, she and her friends organized La Cruz Blanca, The White Cross, to take care of the wounded.  They nursed people from both sides of the fighting.
Jovita Idar
?Jovita Idar (1885-1946) lived in Laredo, Texas.  As a journalist, she wrote articles for Spanish-language newspapers like El Progreso and El Heraldo Cristiano, criticizing anti-Mexican discrimination, lynching, and poor social conditions.

The line of beauty products she created for African-American people made her the first Black woman millionaire in the United States.
Madam C.J. Walker
?In 1905, Madam C.J. Walker (1867-1919) began developing an effective hair lotion, and then a special comb to straighten curly hair. She eventually employed 3,000 people, mostly Black women, to work in her factories and sell her line of products.  Some sources also cite her as the first self-made American woman millionaire.

She encouraged Black Americans to support the cause of World War I and worked to have Black veterans granted full respect.
Madam C.J. Walker

In 1918 she was the keynote speaker at many National Association for the Advancement of Colored People fund raisers for the antilynching effort throughout the Midwest and East.
Madam C.J. Walker
?She donated large sums of money to the NAACP's antilynching campaign and later in her life revised her will to support Black schools, organizations, individuals, orphanages, retirement homes, YWCA's and YMCA's.

She is regarded as the greatest ballerina born in America.  Her father was the Chief of the Osage Indians. Can you name her?
Maria Tallchief
?Maria Tallchief (b. 1925), gained international stardom as prima ballerina of the New York City Ballet in a career that spanned 23 years. In 1980, she and her sister, Marjorie, founded the Chicago City Ballet.

Her 1939 Easter Sunday concert on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial drew a crowd of 75,000 and was a triumph over bigotry for this international star.
Marian Anderson
?In 1939, when the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) refused to allow Marian Anderson (1897–1993) to perform at Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C., Eleanor Roosevelt resigned her DAR membership in protest and sponsored Anderson’s concert at the Lincoln Memorial.

She was the first African American to be named a permanent member of the Metropolitan Opera Company, as well as the first to perform at the White House.
Marian Anderson

She led a 125–mile march of child workers all the way from the mills of Pennsylvania to President Theodore Roosevelt’s vacation home on Long Island.
Mary Harris "Mother" Jones
?The feisty labor organizer, Mary Harris Jones (1830–1930), did just that in 1903. Called "Mother" Jones by everyone, her goal for the march was to bring the evils of child labor to the attention of the president and the national press.

One of the founders of the Social Democratic party (1898) and the Industrial Workers of the World (1905), she was active in organizing miners, garment workers, and streetcar workers.
Mary Harris "Mother" Jones

In 1914, her graphic description of the massacre of 20 people by machine-gun fire during a Ludlow, Colorado, miner’s strike convinced President Wilson to try to mediate the dispute.
Mary Harris "Mother" Jones

Who printed the first copy of the Declaration of Independence that included the signers' names?
Mary Katherine Goddard
?Mary Katherine Goddard (1738-1816), newspaper publisher, had such a strong reputation in the colonies that when Congress fled to Baltimore in 1776 they trusted her with the revolutionary task of printing their treasonous document.  Goddard risked arrest by the British when she included her own name as printer.

She was most likely the first American woman postmaster.
Mary Katherine Goddard
?In 1775, Mary Goddard was appointed postmaster in Baltimore.  She remained at this post until a new postmaster general replaced her with another appointee in 1789.  She appealed directly to President George Washington to intercede on her behalf, but he refused to interfere.  She went on to unsuccessfully appeal for reinstatement and payment of a claim against the United States in both the Senate and House of Representatives.  Following this, she ran a bookshop in Baltimore for the next twenty years.

She was the last reigning monarch of the Hawaiian Islands, deposed when American business and military interests wanted to annex Hawaii to the U.S.
Queen Liliuokalani
?Queen Liliuokalani (1838–1917).  Upon the death of her brother, King Kalakauam, Queen Liliuokalani ascended the throne of Hawaii in January 1891.  Queen Liliuokalani sought to empower herself and Hawaiians through a new constitution which she herself had drawn up, but she was deposed by the advocates of a Republic for Hawaii, who established a provisional government in 1893.  In 1898, Hawaii was annexed to the United States through a joint resolution of the U. S. Congress and Queen Liliuokalani was forced to give up her throne.

Among her lasting legacies: she composed over 200 songs, including "Aloha Oe".
Queen Liliuokalani

She is considered the mother of the modern environmental movement.
Rachel Carson
?Rachel Carson (1907-1964).  Before there even was an environmental movement, her book "Silent Spring" became a runaway best seller and nearly 40 years later, it is still regarded as the cornerstone of the new environmentalism.

After being the first woman to take and pass the civil service test, the Bureau of Fisheries hired her as a full-time junior biologist, and over the next 15 years, she rose in the ranks until she was the chief editor of all publications for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Rachel Carson
?She resigned from her government position in 1952 in order to devote all her time to writing.

In 1992, a panel of distinguished Americans declared her book the most influential book of the past 50 years.
Rachel Carson
?The book was Carson's "Silent Spring".  Published in 1962, "Silent Spring" touched off an international controversy about the environmental effects of pesticides.  The book became a best-seller and the foundation of modern ecological awareness.  President Kennedy read the book and it influenced him to call for testing of the chemicals mentioned in the book.

Daughter and granddaughter of Paiute Indian chiefs from Nevada, she lobbied Congress, wrote extensively, and traveled across country during the late 1800s, giving more than 400 speeches lecturing on the hardships brought upon Native Americans by the U.S. Government.
Sarah Winnemucca
?Sarah Winnemucca (1844–1891), daughter of Chief Winnemucca, she was later named a chief in her own right. Her autobiography, Life Among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims, was one of the first books by a Native American.

She established Nevada's first school for Native Americans in 1884.
Sarah Winnemucca
?Her brother Natchez organized construction of the building and through the support of Elizabeth Peabody and Mary Peabody Mann, she opened a school for Indian children called "Peabody's Institute" near Lovelock, Nevada.

She offered her services to the Army as an interpreter and scout and she used these skills to save her father, whose lodge had been surrounded by hostile Indians.
Sarah Winnemucca
?She came to her father's rescue by traveling without sleep over 200 miles in 48 hours over treacherous Idaho terrain.

Hers was the first book ever published that was written by a Native American woman.
Sarah Winnemucca
?Writing in a language that was not her own, she reaches out to readers with a deeply personal appeal for understanding, recording a portion of the history of the far west from the Native American perspective.

'Quotes
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Name the woman to whom this quote is attributed to:[CR][CR]"I don’t know how long it has been since my ear has been free from the roll of a drum. It is the music I sleep by, and I love it . . . I shall remain here while anyone remains, and do whatever comes to my hand. I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them."
Clara Barton
?In an 1861 letter to her father.

Name the woman to whom this quote is attributed to:[CR][CR]"You must never so much as think whether you like it or not, whether it is bearable or not; you must never think of anything except the need, and how to meet it."
Clara Barton

Name the woman to whom this quote is attributed to:[CR][CR]"Long ago I added to the true old adage of 'What is everybody’s business is nobody’s business,' another clause which, I think, more than any other principle has served to influence my actions in life. That is, 'What is nobody’s business is my business.'"
Clara Barton
?In a letter dated March 7, 1888, written to orator Robert G. Ingersoll (1833-1899), urging him to speak on behalf of the residents of Mount Vernon, Illinois, whose town had been ravaged by a tornado the month before.

Name the woman to whom this quote is attributed to:[CR][CR]"Although its growth may seem to have been slow, it is to be remembered that it is not a shrub, or plant, to shoot up in the summer and wither in the frosts. The Red Cross is a part of us—it has come to stay—and like the sturdy oak, its spreading branches shall yet encompass and shelter the relief of the nation."
Clara Barton
?From her parting message, delivered on May 14, 1904, as she retired from the Presidency of the American Red Cross.

Name the woman to whom this quote is attributed to:[CR][CR]"I think we brought to the world, the United States anyway, the whole idea of boycotting as a nonviolent tactic. I think we showed the world that nonviolence can work to make social change."
Dolores Huerta

Name the woman to whom this quote is attributed to:[CR][CR]"Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life."
Eleanor Roosevelt
?Taken from the Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt.

Name the woman to whom this quote is attributed to:[CR][CR]"I have never believed that war settled anything satisfactorily, but I am not entirely sure that some times there are certain situations in the world such as we have in actuality when a country is worse off when it does not go to war for its principles than if it went to war."
Eleanor Roosevelt
?Written on January 2, 1938. Roosevelt was abandoning her earlier pacifism in the face of the fascist threat.

Name the woman to whom this quote is attributed to:[CR][CR]"... criticism ... makes very little dent upon me, unless I think there is some real justification and something should be done."
Eleanor Roosevelt
?In a letter to feminist Carrie Chapman Catt dated April 18, 1936. As First Lady (1933-1945), Roosevelt was constantly criticized (as well as admired) for her highly visible, substantive, independent political activities and writings.

Name the woman to whom this quote is attributed to:[CR][CR]"I’m so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!"
Eleanor Roosevelt
?As quoted in Eleanor: The Years Alone, ch. 2, by Joseph P. Lash (1972). Said in 1946, the year after the death of her husband, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945).

Name the woman to whom this quote is attributed to:[CR][CR]"... it is a rather curious thing to have to divide one’s life into personal and official compartments and temporarily put the personal side into its hidden compartment to be taken out again when one’s official duties are at an end."
Eleanor Roosevelt
?Written on October 17, 1940, as her husband, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, approached his third Presidential election, which he won.

Name the woman to whom this quote is attributed to:[CR][CR]"My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths."
Eleanor Roosevelt
?In a letter to Pauline Emmet, dated January 11, 1939.

Name the woman to whom this quote is attributed to:[CR][CR]"... there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty, or death; if I could not have one, I would take de oder; for no man should take me alive; I should fight for my liberty as long as my strength lasted, and when de time came for me to go, de Lord would let dem take me."
Harriet Tubman
?As quoted in Harriet, the Moses of Her People, by Sarah Bradford (1869).  Here, Tubman was remembering her determination to flee the South after the death of her master.

Name the woman to whom this quote is attributed to:[CR][CR]"I had crossed de line of which I had so long been dreaming. I was free; but dere was no one to welcome me to de land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land, and my home after all was down in de old cabin quarter, wid de ole folks, and my brudders and sisters. But to dis solemn resolution I came; I was free, and dey should be free also; I would make a home for dem in de North, and de Lord helping me, I would bring dem all dere."
Harriet Tubman
?As quoted in Harriet, the Moses of Her People, by Sarah Bradford (1869).  Here, Tubman was remembering what she thought when, as a fugitive slave, she finally reached free soil.

Name the woman to whom this quote is attributed to:[CR][CR]"I looked at my hands, to see if I was de same person now I was free. Dere was such a glory ober eberything, de sun came like gold trou de trees, and ober de fields, and I felt like I was in heaven."
Harriet Tubman
?As quoted in Harriet, the Moses of Her People, by Sarah Bradford (1869).  Here, Tubman was remembering how she felt when, as a fugitive slave, she finally reached free soil.

Name the woman to whom this quote is attributed to:[CR][CR]"I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can’t say—I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger."
Harriet Tubman
?As quoted in Divided Houses, ch. 7, by Lyde Cullen Sizer (1992).  Of her experience as slave-liberator via the secret network of safe houses known metaphorically as the Underground Railroad.

Name the woman to whom this quote is attributed to:[CR][CR]"We saw the lightning and that was the guns; and then we heard the thunder and that was the big guns; and then we heard the rain falling and that was the blood falling; and when we came to get in the crops, it was dead men that we reaped."
Harriet Tubman
?As quoted in Divided Houses, ch. 7, by Lyde Cullen Sizer (1992).  Of the Civil War, during which she acted as a spy for the Union.

Name the woman to whom this quote is attributed to:[CR][CR]"A Settlement is above all a place for enthusiasms, a spot to which those who have a passion for the equalization of human joys and opportunities are early attracted."
Jane Addams
?Twenty Years at Hull-House, ch. 9 (1910).  Addams was the founding director of Hull-House, a pioneer “settlement house” in a poor, largely immigrant, Chicago neighborhood.

Name the woman to whom this quote is attributed to:[CR][CR]"... this dream that men shall cease to waste strength in competition and shall come to pool their powers of production is coming to pass all over the earth."
Jane Addams
?Twenty Years at Hull-House, ch. 7 (1910).

Name the woman to whom this quote is attributed to:[CR][CR]"... social advance depends quite as much upon an increase in moral sensibility as it does upon a sense of duty ..."
Jane Addams
?Twenty Years at Hull-House, ch. 15 (1910).

Name the woman to whom this quote is attributed to:[CR][CR]"We fatuously hoped that we might pluck from the human tragedy itself a consciousness of a common destiny which should bring its own healing, that we might extract from life’s very misfortunes a power of cooperation which should be effective against them."
Jane Addams
?Twenty Years at Hull-House, ch. 7 (1910).  Here she was recalling her and her colleagues’ idealistic, naive early expectations.

Name the woman to whom this quote is attributed to:[CR][CR]"[The Settlement House] must be grounded in a philosophy whose foundation is on the solidarity of the human race, a philosophy which will not waver when the race happens to be represented by a drunken woman or an idiot boy."
Jane Addams
?Twenty Years at Hull-House, ch. 6 (1910).  From a lecture, “The Subjective Necessity for Social Settlements,” delivered in 1892 at a summer school run by the Ethical Culture Society. Addams was the founding director of Hull-House, a pioneer “settlement house” in a poor, largely immigrant, Chicago neighborhood.

Name the woman to whom this quote is attributed to:[CR][CR]"... of all the aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment ..."
Jane Addams
?Twenty Years at Hull-House, ch. 10 (1910).

Name the woman to whom this quote is attributed to:[CR][CR]"I got myself a start by giving myself a start."
Madam C.J. Walker
?New York Times Magazine, November 4, 1917.

Name the woman to whom this quote is attributed to:[CR][CR]"Sometimes you’re overwhelmed when a thing comes, and you do not realize the magnitude of the affair at that moment. When you get away from it, you wonder, did it really happen to you."
Marian Anderson
?As quoted in I Dream a World, by Brian Lanker (1989).  After racial discrimination denied her the major operatic career many feel her talent surely waranted, in 1955, Marian Anderson finally became the first African American soloist to sing at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City.  Here, she was remembering that experience.

Name the woman to whom this quote is attributed to:[CR][CR]"There are many persons ready to do what is right because in their hearts they know it is right. But they hesitate, waiting for the other fellow to make the first move—and he, in turn, waits for you. The minute a person whose word means a great deal dares to take the open- hearted and courageous way, many others follow. Not everyone can be turned aside from meanness and hatred, but the great majority of Americans is heading in that direction. I have a great belief in the future of my people and my country."
Marian Anderson
?My Lord, What a Morning, ch. 28 (1956).  When she wrote this, the civil rights movement was just getting underway.

Name the woman to whom this quote is attributed to:[CR][CR]"In spite of oppressors, in spite of false leaders, in spite of labor's own lack of understanding of its needs, the cause of the worker continues onward. Slowly his hours are shortened, giving him leisure to read and to think. Slowly his standard of living rises to include some of the good and beautiful things of the world. Slowly the cause of his children becomes the cause of all. His boy is taken from the breaker, his girl from the mill. slowly those who create the wealth of the world are permitted to share it. The future is in labor's strong, rough hands."
Mary Harris "Mother" Jones

Name the woman to whom this quote is attributed to:[CR][CR]"I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people. I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false. But this knowledge does not outweigh the fact that my class, the working class, is exploited, driven, fought back with the weapon of starvation, with guns and with venal courts whenever they strike for conditions more human, more civilized for their children, and for their children's children."
Mary Harris "Mother" Jones

Name the woman to whom this quote is attributed to:[CR][CR]"... if it is a question of strike or you go into slavery, then I say strike until the last one of us drop into our graves."
Mary Harris "Mother" Jones
?1913, Speaking to the convention of District 15, UMWA, Trinidad Colorado

Name the woman to whom this quote is attributed to:[CR][CR]"Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living!"
Mary Harris "Mother" Jones

Name the woman to whom this quote is attributed to:[CR][CR]"If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in."
Rachel Carson
?The Sense of Wonder, Harper & Row (1965).

Name the woman to whom this quote is attributed to:[CR][CR]"Over increasingly large areas of the United States, spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early mornings are strangely silent where once they were filled with the beauty of bird song."
Rachel Carson
?On the effect of chemical insecticides and fertilizers, Silent Spring Houghton Mifflin (1962).

Name the woman to whom this quote is attributed to:[CR][CR]"As crude a weapon as a cave man’s club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life."
Rachel Carson
?On the effect of chemical insecticides and fertilizers, Silent Spring Houghton Mifflin (1962).

Name the woman to whom this quote is attributed to:[CR][CR]"The 'control of nature' is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and the convenience of man."
Rachel Carson
?The Silent Spring, ch. 17 (1962).

Name the woman to whom this quote is attributed to:[CR][CR]"If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children, I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life."
Rachel Carson
?The Last Word, ed. Carolyn Warner, ch. 19 (1992).

Name the woman to whom this quote is attributed to:[CR][CR]"A child’s world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of us that clear-eyed vision, that true instinct for what is beautiful and awe-inspiring, is dimmed and even lost before we reach adulthood."
Rachel Carson
?The Last Word, ed. Carolyn Warner, ch. 28 (1992).

Name the woman to whom this quote is attributed to:[CR][CR]"The more I learned about the use of pesticides, the more appalled I became.  I realized that here was the material for a book.  What I discovered was that everything which meant most to me as a naturalist was being threatened, and that nothing I could do would be more important."
Rachel Carson