Lifestyle of a Dream Walker: Power to the Ladies

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Power to the Ladies

Some of the greatest women in history

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.

Led a people, saved a nation, governed wisely, respected globally.

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.

Katharine Hepburn
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.