The Resume

(November 8, 1897-November 29, 1980)
Born in Brooklyn, New York
Anarchist turned Catholic social activist
Founded the Catholic Worker movement (1933)
Wrote 'Houses of Hospitality' (1939), 'The Long Loneliness' (1952), 'Loaves and Fishes' (1963) and 'On Pilgrimage: The Sixties' (1972)

Why she might be annoying:

She had an abortion.
She attempted suicide.
He common-law marriage to an atheist anarchist ended when she had their daughter baptized as a Catholic.
Her continued pacifism after Pearl Harbor was so unpopular, it led to fifteen Catholic Worker houses of hospitality closing.
She wrote passionately about free love in her youth, but denounced the sexual revolution of the 60s.
She is the subject of a canonization campaign, which is ironic given that she said, 'Don't call me a saint. I don't want to be dismissed so easily.'

Why she might not be annoying:

She was arrested for protesting in front of the White House for women's suffrage (1917).
She founded dozens of Houses of Hospitality to provide shelter, food and clothing for the poor.
She founded the Committee of Catholics to Fight Anti-Semitism.
She received the Pacem im Terris (Peace on Earth) Award (1971).
She was last arrested at age 75, when she was jailed for picketing in support of the United Farm Workers.
She said, 'You only love God as much as you love the person you love the least.'

Credit: C. Fishel

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• Born in Brooklyn, New York
• C. Fishel's Profiles [Series 16]
• College Drop Outs
• Day and Night
• I Attempted Suicide and Screwed it Up
• I Attended University of Illinois [Urbana, Champaign]
• I Converted to Catholicism
• I Died in 1980 (Ranked: 83)
• I Lived on Staten Island
• I Went on a Hunger Strike
• Look at Me, I'm with the Cops
• National Women's Hall of Fame (Ranked: 2001)
• Nobody Told Me I'm Old
• Profiles 24251-24500 (Ranked: 24432)
• Suffragettes
• White Women Loved by Blacks
• Women Who had Abortions

Year In Review:

In 2023, Out of 10 Votes: 80.0% Annoying
In 2022, Out of 6 Votes: 16.67% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 9 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
In 2020, Out of 9 Votes: 55.56% Annoying
In 2019, Out of 6 Votes: 16.67% Annoying
In 2018, Out of 20 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2017, Out of 6 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
In 2016, Out of 3 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
In 2015, Out of 11 Votes: 36.36% Annoying
In 2014, Out of 13 Votes: 38.46% Annoying
In 2013, Out of 23 Votes: 65.22% Annoying
In 2012, Out of 19 Votes: 63.16% Annoying
In 2011, Out of 16 Votes: 68.75% Annoying
In 2010, Out of 27 Votes: 70.37% Annoying
In 2009, Out of 42 Votes: 47.62% Annoying
In 2008, Out of 32 Votes: 34.38% Annoying