Bertha Von Suttner

Bertha Felicitas Sophie Freifrau von Suttner (Baroness Bertha von Suttner, Gräfin (Countess) Kinsky von Wchinitz und Tettau; 9 June 1843 – 21 June 1914) was an Austrian novelist, radical (organizational) pacifist, and the first woman to be a Nobel Peace Prize laureate.

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    Reputation is not of enough value to sacrifice character for it.
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    Experiments are mediators between nature and idea.
    —Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)