Marie Popelin
/Overview
Marie Popelin born Schaerbeek, Brussels September 17, 1846 (d. 1913). First Belgian feminist; educator who founded Alliance of Women for Peace through Education 1898; first Belgian woman lawyer 1888; organized International Feminist Conference Brussels 1897.
Quotations
On the goal of her school: "To create, not a free woman, such as in the disordered imagination of some delirious clerics, but a liberated woman, honorably liberated, by work, by talent and by science." (Eliane Gubin, Dictionnaire des Femmes Belges, p. 461, 2006; photo nl.Wikipedia)