| Distinguished Women of Past and Present |
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| "In agreement with the generally accepted theory that women were responsible for the development of agriculture, as an extension of their food-gathering activities, there were female deities everywhere who were credited with this gift to civilization." --Merlin Stone in When God Was a Woman |
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| "Native women were America's first farmers. They owned the fields they cultivated, as well as the proceeds therefrom, and passed them on to their daughters. They were also America's first geneticists, experimenting with different strains of plants, domesticating the wild weeds that they came upon in their early hunter-gatherer days, developing them into plants such as corn, beans, squash, potatoes, peanuts, peppers, sunflowers and tomatoes." --Diana Steer in Native American Women |
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