Bette Midler:
I'm working my way toward divinity.

DID YOU KNOW ...

... that in 1670, Aphra Behn became the first woman to make her living as a playwright?

Aphra Behn lived from 1640 to 1689. After John Dryden, she was the most prolific dramatist of the Restoration, but it is for her pioneering work in prose narrative that she achieved her place in literary history.

"All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn, which is, most scandalously but rather appropriately, in Westminster Abbey, for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds. It is she--shady and amorous as she was--who makes it not quite fantastic for me to say to you tonight: Earn five hundred a year by your wits."

-- Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own

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