Sappho
She and Homer founded Western literature. But Homer never wrote like this:
By the cool water the breeze murmurs, rustling
Through apple branches, while from quivering leaves
Streams down deep slumber.
Joan of Arc
Led an army, saved a people, died stoically, sainted rightfully.
Maud Gonne
Inspired this:
Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
—William Butler Yeats, 1899
Eleanor Roosevelt
Co-president of the United States, 1933-1945.
One half of Hepburn and Tracy, and that alone would be enough. But there's also Hepburn and Bogart, Hepburn and Grant, Hepburn and Poitier — in all, sixty-two years of the most intelligent acting ever to grace the big screen.
Marilyn Monroe
Not "Marilyn Monroe." The other one, the scared, honest one — the one in The Misfits.
Janis Joplin
Passion trumps beauty.
Joan Jett
"I Love Rock 'n Roll" changed the way we thought about music — especially how we thought about women making rock music.
Princess Diana
Regardless of who she married, she still deserved to be called a princess.
First female secretary of state. Looked great in blue.
Jessica Rabbit
Betty Boop didn't even come close.
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