Rose Bird - Death and Tributes

Death and Tributes

Bird died on December 4, 1999, at Stanford University Medical Center from complications of breast cancer (which she had fought on and off since 1976) at the age of 63. The California Public Defender's Association established an award in her honor, as did the California Women Lawyers.

Read more about this topic:  Rose Bird

Famous quotes containing the words death and/or tributes:

    “They are girls. Green girls.
    Death and life is their daily work.
    Death seams up and down the leaf.
    I call the leaves my death girls.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them.”
    —Jean Genet (1910–1986)