Inspiring women

Why only women, you might ask? Because Ginger Rogers danced every step as did Fred Astaire, but backwards and on high heels. And he's the famous dancer. It's harder to be a woman.

Who's on your list?


ARTS/MOVIES/LITERATURE

Margaret Atwood
Judy Blume
Pearl Buck
Ellen DeGeneres
Judy Densch
Isak Dinesen
M.K. Fisher
Hannah Gadsby
Sally Hawkins
Lillian Hellman
Ursula K. Le Guin
Bette Midler
Helen Mirren
Maggie Smith
Anna Deavere Smith
Meryl Streep
Betty White
Oprah Winfrey
Virginia Woolf

WORLD TRAVEL/DISCOVERY

Alexandra David-Neal
Madame Blavatsky

POLITICS/LEADERSHIP

Angela Merkel
Catherine the Great
Rita Colwell
Eleanor Roosevelt
Hillary Clinton
​Elizabeth Warren

ACADEMICS/RESEARCH

Karen Horney
Jane Goodall
Margaret Mead
Stephanie Coontz
Virginia Valian