Mary Robinson/career in Seanad %c3%a9ireann

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    The largest business in American handled by a woman is the Money Order Department of the Pittsburgh Post-office; Mary Steel has it in charge.
    Lydia Hoyt Farmer (1842–1903)

    Dark, marvelous, and inscrutable he moved on
    Till down the fiery distance he was gone,
    —Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)

    I doubt that I would have taken so many leaps in my own writing or been as clear about my feminist and political commitments if I had not been anointed as early as I was. Some major form of recognition seems to have to mark a woman’s career for her to be able to go out on a limb without having her credentials questioned.
    Ruth Behar (b. 1956)