THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT
Dr. Ida Fisher Davidoff
August 30, 1903 – May 11, 2001
“We do not grow old. We become old by not growing.”
Family therapy pioneer. Marriage counselor, Therapist, Expert on Aging, Author. A Founder of Women’s Place in Fairfield County, CT.
Photo. Left to right: Dr. Ida Davidoff, Mary Eastwood and Sonia Pressman Fuentes at a Veteran Feminists of America event held at the Sewall-Belmont House & Museum in May 1994.
More About Ida:
- Obituary, The Herald News
- Sonia Pressman Fuentes on Ida Davidoff, May 2023
- A Grandmother’s Gift of Generational Giving, Dr. Ida Davidoff continues to make an impact for Fairfield County women through her legacy of planned giving. December 2022
- Ida Fisher Davidoff Memoir. Radcliffe College Archives, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University.
- Woman’s Place: Home to an Idea, 1977
- Cited in Barbara Love’s book, Feminists Who Changed America 1963-1975, page 109
