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Into The Spotlight
"It called out to my inner child hidden backstage to come to the center."
In the Spotlight: George Sand, b. 1804
This week it's romantic novelist and artist Amantine Lucile Dudevant (George Sand) under the spotlight.
In the Spotlight: Frida Kahlo b. 1907
“I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy to be alive as long as I can paint.”
In the Spotlight: Emmeline Pankhurst, b. 1859
"We are here, not because we are law-breakers; we are here in our efforts to become law-makers."
In the Spotlight: Valentina Tereshkova b. 1937
On the 16th June 1963, at 26 years of age, Tereshkova was launched into space. She spent 2 days, 23 hours and 12 minutes alone in a capsule with...
In the Spotlight: Margaret Atwood, b. 1939
Margaret Atwood is a Canadian novelist, critic, essayist and activist. Her career began right after her graduation from Victoria College of the University of Toronto in 1961, when she...