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Eleanor Brackenridge

“Foolish modesty lags behind while brazen impudence goes forth and eats the pudding.”
- Eleanor Brackenridge,
- in Mary Beth Rogers, ed., Texas Women, a Celebration of History (1981)

Eleanor Brackenridge, U.S. suffragist, women's rights advocate, first female member of a Texas university board of regents

(1837 - 1924)

Full name: Mary Eleanor Brackenridge.