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“how a person treats their waitress is a great indication of their character.” Amy Poehler, American actress, comedian, director, producer, and writer. Co-founded the Chicago-based improvisational-comedy troupe Upright Citizens Brigade.

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'You matter because you are you, you matter to the last moment of your life' - remembering Dame Cicely Saunders, founder of the hospice movement and a significant contributor to the discipliner of medical ethics, BOTD in 1918

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'The most violent element in society is ignorance' Emma Goldman, (1869-1940) anarchist, political activist, writer. We could do with her now to help stop the madmen wrecking our country

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Honouring Pearl Witherington, SOE agent parachuted into France in 1943. She led a network of 1,500 Maquis fighters who took on the German army during the D-Day landings and presided over the surrender of 18,000 troops

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'The saddest illusion of the revolutionary is that revolution itself will transform the nature of human beings.' Shirley Williams, leader of Lib Dems in the Lords, appointed to Order of the Companions of Honour for 'services to political and public life'

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“Whatever you do, be different – that was the advice my mother gave me, and I can’t think of better advice for an entrepreneur. If you’re different, you will stand out.” Dame Anita Roddick (1942 - 2007) founder of The Body Shop.

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'There's an earthiness and bawdiness in my voice'. Birthday greetings to Pat Barker CBE, writer and novelist, winner of numerous awards for her works about memory, trauma, survival and recovery.

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Saluting Mary Harris Thompson, 1st female surgeon in the US, founder of the Chicago Hospital for Women and Children and of the Women's Hospital Medical College & vice president of AMA born OTD in 1829. She also invented several surgical instruments

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Daisy Ashford, author of 'The Young Visiters' when she was only 9 years old, BOTD 1881. A hard hitting portrayal of upper class society in late 19th C England through the eyes of a child. A masterpiece

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Grace Chisolm Young BOTD 1868, English analytical mathematician and algebraic geometer. Educated at home then Girton College, Cambridge and Göttingen University in Germany becoming the first woman to receive a doctorate in any field in that country.

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