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Have you ever heated up a frozen pizza or nibbled from a bag of potato chips?

Played a board game or blues guitar?

Loaded cans in a paper bag or dishes in a dishwasher?

All of these are possible because a woman in history had the spirit and grit to take an idea and run with it.

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Spirit and Grit! tells the fascinating stories of more than one hundred remarkable women in history who were the earliest "entrepreneurs," willing to take a risk to establish a business of their own. 

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Next time you open a refrigerator, choose a lipstick, try Creole cooking, clean a toilet, play in a marching band, enter a house with solar heat, or consider a career on Wall Street, think of the women who struck out on their own and blazed a trail to make our lives easier, efficient, and fun!