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Marjorie Pay Hinckley - “I don't want to drive up to the pearly gates in a shiny sports car, wearing beautifully, tailored clothes, my hair expertly coiffed, and with long, perfectly manicured fingernails. I want to drive up in a station wagon that has mud on the wheels from taking kids to scout camp. I want to be there with a smudge of peanut butter on my shirt from making sandwiches for a sick neighbors children. I want to be there with a little dirt under my fingernails from helping to weed someone's garden. I want to be there with children's sticky kisses on my cheeks and the tears of a friend on my shoulder. I want the Lord to know I was really here and that I really lived.”
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Anne Hutchinson--Champion of Religious Liberty
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The Unsinkable Molly Brown: Margaret Brown was a socialite and activist, born in 1867, who became famous for surviving the sinking of the Titanic. Her nickname after her death was The Unsinkable Molly Brown, but in life Molly was not the nickname her friends used. They called her Maggie.
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First Lady: Lucretia Garfield. Born in Garrettsville, Ohio on April 19, 1832, Lucretia was the eldest of four children. Her family was a religious one, being active members in the Disciples of Christ church. Lucretia was of medium height and had brown hair and eyes and never considered herself to be attractive. She was however extremely intelligent and had a lively curiosity which led her to study many subjects including journalism, French, algebra and Latin. She also enjoyed acting and painting and was an excellent writer.
Blessed Teresa of Calcutta, also known as Mother Teresa, was born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in 1910, in Albania (now Kosovo). She is profiled here as an historic homemaker, but her life’s work made her so much more than that title might suggest. Yet, she would be the first to humbly decline the honor, preferring to focus attention on the need to assist others. To many, she is the enduring face of selfless, modern-day charity.
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The Trapp family story has been made famous through the world due in part because of the movie “The Sound of Music.” How much of that is based on fact? Who is Maria von Trapp? Did her and her family really climb over mountains to escape the Nazis? As I write this article the phrase “the hills are alive with the sound of music” keeps playing through my head. How could it not, with how many times I have watched the movie? Still there is much more depth to Maria herself and the whole von Trapp family than is what portrayed in the movie. They were living, breathing humans. I am once again reminded that Hollywood is about profit not necessarily the facts.
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Louisa May Alcott is best known and loved for “Little Women,” a book loosely based on her own childhood. Behind the story of homemaking and the struggles of growing up during the Victorian time, lived a troubled woman who lived a double life. Few people knew her true side. It was only years after her death, when her other writings where found, that her real life became known.
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Mother Goose’s maiden name was Elizabeth Foster. She was born in 1635 in Charlestown, Massachusetts. She married the widower Isaac Goose of Boston who had ten children. She immediately embraced the role of mother and had an additional six children.
Jane Addams: Along with the founding of Hull House, Jane found and gave voice to those she served by lobbying the state of Illinois for changes to child labor laws, for safer factory work conditions, better schools for children and for a better juvenile justice system. She also supported the cause of womens' suffrage and supported various peace and labor movements. For all these efforts, she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931.
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Historic Homemaker: Barbara Bush. Several things mark Barbara Bush as a historic homemaker, even in the young days of her marriage. Of course, she was First Lady as the wife of the 41st President George H. W. Bush. "At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent." Barbara Bush
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Abigail Adams: “Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.” “I hate to complain...No one is without difficulties, whether in high or low life, and every person knows best where their own shoe pinches.”
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Dolley Madison "It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people's business."
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Nancy Raegan “I have been very happy with my homes, but homes really are no more than the people who live in them.” “I think a woman gets more if she acts feminine.”
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Lisa Ann When I was in jr. high her house was on my regular walk :) Very cool!
Shiloah Baker of the Homemaking Cottage That is cool!