Phenomenal Women

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Janet Reno- 1st Woman Attorney General

Janet Reno (1938- ), the first female Attorney General of the United States, has had a life filled with "firsts."

Background
Reno grad...

Lauren Huxley

This beautiful young woman recently turned 21, and every moment is worth celebrating. At 18, Lauren Huxley was not expected to survive an ho...

Elizabeth Blackwell - Resources for Botanical Art Lovers

Elizabeth Blackwell was the first British woman to produce a herbal and the first woman to engrave as well as draw plants. She compiled and ...

Hanne Blank

For a long time plus size women had to rely on erotica laced with slim chicks. Then in walked Hanne Blank, curvy, intelligent and full of er...

Brenda Ladun - Heroine In The Search For The Cure of Breast Cancer

Brenda Ladun is the 6pm/10pm Anchor on the ABC TV affiliate in Birmingham, Alabama. That is how I first "met" her. I watched her grow as a...

Emily Dickinson, Private Poetess

During her quiet, reserved life, Emily Dickinson privately wrote some of the most important and persevering poetry in all of American histor...

Tsultrim Allione and Tara Mandala

Tsultrim Allione has a masters in Buddhism/Womens Studies from Antioch University. She is one of the first Western women to be ordained as a...

Revolutionary Heroes: Women As Homestead Warriors

"With ladies on our side, we can make every Tory tremble."These words from the Sons of Liberty made a powerful statement. They were speaki...

Mary Cassatt - Resources for Art Lovers

This lens is about Mary Cassatt - the artist and Impressionist painter. It provides links to where you can:
- find out more about Mary Cass...

Annie Besant, teacher, lecturer, secularist and theosophist...

Minister's wife, student of medicine, raised a prophet, reformer, secularist and more. Annie Besant (1847-1933) was many things in her life...

Women with the Blues Video Showcase

When listing the great blues musicians, the seminal artists of the genre, most often only men come to mind. Women, however, have been gettin...

Sally Ride

In 1983, Sally Ride became the first American woman in space. She was a mission specialist on the Challenger, the seventh space shuttle flig...

Stella Gibbons

On January 5, 1902, in Hampstead, London, England, Stella Dorothea Gibbons was born. Gibbons career as an author would span forty years, and...

Sophie Kinsella

Sophie Kinsella (born December 12, 1969) is the pen name of British author Madeleine Wickham.

As Sophie Kinsella she has become well-know...

Amelia Earhart Lady Aviator

 

Amelia Earhart is soon to be portrayed on the big screen by Hilary Swank. This lens is about Amelia's life and her fly...

Poker Diva Liz Lieu

Liz Lieu is a professional poker player born on August 2, 1974 in Vietnam and raised in Colorado. Chilipoker signed an exclusive contract wi...

Pleasingly Plump Pipes

In this day and age when so much attention is paid to "beautiful" babes belting out bawdy ballads, it's a real treat to see unconventiona...

Angela Lansbury

Angela Brigid Lansbury is an English actress who has had a great career and had a long running television hit, Murder She Wrote, which r...

Goldie Hawn Actress - Writer - Philanthropist

Goldie Hawn was born in 1945 and graduated from high school in Silver Spring, MD. She started dancing at the age of 3. She has had two husba...

Doctor Virginia Apgar

Virginia Apgar (1909 - 1974), was a brilliant physician and humanitarian. She is best known for her development of the Apgar Score in 1952, ...

Queen Rania Al Abdullah

Her Majesty Queen Rania al Abdullah of Jordan is famous around the world for her beauty and her philanthropic work.

Chrissie Hynde

Chrissie Hynde is from my hometown, and even attended the same college I did.  How could I not be interested in and follow her career?&...

Strong Biblical Women

Many young women think that they have to choose men as strong role models. But the Bible has many women who are strong role models. Sara, th...

Strength out of suffering - France Pastorelli

France Pastorelli tells her moving story: that of a mother, a musician, whose life turned to deep suffering because of heart problems. She t...

Growing Up in Pendleton SC in 1950's and 60's

Pendleton SC Town Council woman Sandra Gantt was asked to speak to the Leadership Pendleton Class of 2009. She was asked to tell how it was ...

Harper Lee

Carrie Fisher

In Star Wars, we first see Princess Leia wearing a hairstyle since described by spoofers as a Danish on each ear. But despite what could've...

Caroline Kennedy: The Quiet Super Hero

Caroline Kennedy (Schlossberg) has been called the Scion of Public Service by The AARP Magazine

Kennedy (she uses that name) has raised m...

Helen Mirren - Queen of Acting?

Helen Mirren is one of the finest British actresses.She has had a long and distinguished career (her filmography is so long I've put it at ...

Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell- 1st American Woman Physician

In 1849, Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell (1821 - 1910) was the first woman to receive an M.D. degree from an American medical school.

Elizabeth B...

Frances Perkins- 1st Woman US Cabinet Member

In 1932 Frances Perkins (1880-1965) was the first woman to a hold a cabinet post in American history. She was appointed The Secretary of Lab...

Secretary of State: Woman's Work?

I grew up in the 1950's where sex roles were pretty rigid. However, my parents were different. They owned small town newspapers under .Arr...

Princess Diana

I was deeply-saddened that night in August 1997, along with millions of others, when we received the news of Princess Diana's death.  ...

Dr. Margarita Pereyda - inspiring achievement and giving

Dr. Pereyda is originally from Arizona, where she grew up within an impoverished community that did not expect students to succeed. However,...

Joy Nash

It seems like more and more people are becoming famous because of You Tube. Earlier this year a friend sent me a link to this video called A...

Ethel Waters

Background information:
Born October 31, 1896(1896-10-31) Chester, Pennsylvania, USADied September 1, 1977 (aged 80)Chatsworth, California,...

Grace Darling - the heroine of Longford Light

The daughter of a lighthouse keeper, Grace and her father went down in history for their daring rescue of the survivors of SS Forfarshire in...

Tale of Grace O'Malley, Warrior Woman & Pirate Queen !

The tale of my fellow O'Malley clanswoman Gráinne Ni Mháille, known as Granuaile (pronounced Granya Wale) or more simply, Gra...

The Unsinkable Molly Brown

Molly Brown was a poor girl from an abolitionist family, adventurous seeker of her fortune in a rough and tumble silver boomtown, early acti...

My great-great grandmother - women I admire

I never met this woman, she died 1 year after my mother was born. I would never have known about her if not for the family history research ...

Jan Schakowsky - Representative For Illinois' 9th Congressional District

Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky has represented Illinois' 9th district since 1998, and is one of Congress' most popular members.

Barbara Lee

California Representative Barbara Lee is one of the most outspoken and progressive members of Congress. Since her election in 1998, she has ...

Jane Austen

In 1795, Jane Austen was a feisty 20 year old emerging writer. Jane saw the world differently than most people at the time, and wished t...

Babe Didrikson Zaharias

Babe Didrikson Zaharias, American athlete, who dominated a number of sports at the highest levels in an era that offered limited athletic op...

Jill Taylor M.D.

Jill Bolte Taylor M.D. is a Harvard-trained brain scientist. Suddenly, unexpectedly on a December morning in 1996 when she was 37-years-old ...

Amy Jaffe Barzach

Amy Jaffe Barzach is the founder of Boundless Playgrounds, an organization created to develop barrier-free, developmentally advantageous pla...

Jackie (Jacqueline) Cochran

During her aviation career, Jackie Cochran set more speed and altitude records than any of her contemporaries, male or female. In 1953, she ...

Ellis Peters

I am a big fan of her books! I own most of them and return them again and again for entertainment and escape.

I especially love the Broth...

Ekography: EelKat's Lensography

I joined Squidoo in April of 2007. At the time of Ekography's last edit I had 313 lenses and 23 groups. I make new ones all the time, ...

Benazir Bhutto

When Benazir Bhutto was first elected Prime Minister of Pakistan at 35, she became the youngest chief executive in the world and the first w...

Marie Antoinette

Who was Marie Antoinette? To many, she is one of the most famous historical examples of a child being turned prematurely in to an adult by b...

Quest to a 1000; Coach Pat Summitt

Through the years, Summitt has reached numerous goals and worn many hats at the University of Tennessee as a student, an educator and a coac...

Shirley MacLaine Actor and Author

Shirley MacLaine has been featured in the following movies: Steel Magnolias, Terms of Endearment, Being There, Ant Bully, Rumor Has It, Bewi...

Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf

Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf made history in 2005 when she was voted the first female president of an African country - Liberia. Ellen was born in ...

Inspirational Women

Women can change the world as we know it. We are intelligent, compassionate, capable of massive multi-tasking, and have no boundaries when i...

Patricia B. McConnell

Patricia McConnell, Ph.D., a Certified Applied Animal Behaviorist, has made a lifelong commitment to improving the relationship between peop...

Thea Slatyer

Thea Slatyer is one interesting young lady. Not only is she a sporting superstar, playing soccer for Australia, but she also has some useful...

Viritual Concert - Kristen Chenoweth

Kristen Chenoweth, born Kristi Dawn Chenoweth, is primarily known for her work in musicals and opera. She became known to youth all over the...

Yoko Ono

Yoko Ono is perhaps best known as being the widow of Beatle legend, John Lennon, with whom she became synonymous with the expression "Give ...

Kirsten Gillibrand

Kristen Gillibrand has been appointed to fill the New York State Senate seat of now Secretary of State Hilary Rodham Clinton. Read more abou...

Julie Christie

An iconic figure of the 1960s, Julie Christie is an Academy Award-winning actress who appeared in a small, but substantial number of classic...

Jordan Cavanaugh

Jordan Cavanaugh works for the Boston Medical Examiner's Office.  Well, she does now anyway - this is her most recent job.  You s...

Annette Obrestad

Annette Obrestad is the real name behind the "machine" known as Annette_15. Of course anybody that knows anything about online poker knows...

Super Hero - Sue Byrnes

When your doctor hands you a paper with the word lymphangioleiomyomatosis on it and tells you that is what you have, the first reaction is d...

Sarah ban Breathnach and Simple Abundance

Sarah ban Breathnach (pronounced ban brannock) is a self-help author whose works, especially Simple Abundance, have had a large impact ...

Victoria Westcott

Victoria Westcott is the owner of Classroom Canada, a teaching agency dedicated to helping Canadian teachers make a smooth transition to tea...

Lisa Madigan: IL Attorney General

Learn more about Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan. Elected in 2003, she is the first female attorney general for Illinois. She is a De...

Amy Goodman

Amy Goodman is a journalist, syndicated columnist and author.

Kay Yow Triumphant

December 14, 2008 will mark Kay Yow's 1000th game coaching the North Carolina State University Wolfpack Women. She has won almost 700 of th...

Strong Biblical Women 4 -- Ruth's Devotion

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When Ruth's husband, brother-in-law and father-in-law all died suddenly, Ruth stayed with her mother-in-law Naomi even as her siste...

Doris Day, America's Sweetheart

This talented cutie pie, girl next door actress/singer of yesteryear stole the hearts of Americans when she first debuted in Romance on the ...

Sophie Tucker

Birth name Sonia Kalish
Born January 13, 1884
Origin Czarist Russia
Died February 9, 1966
Genre(s) Jazz vaudeville
Occupation(s) S...

Strong Biblical Women, Part 2

Rivka (Rebecca) was raised by a man who was a liar and a cheater but she was kind enough to bring water for Eliezer and his donkey.

Angelina Jolie

Angelina Jolie is one of the most closely watched celebrities in the world.  She juggles a busy movie career and humanitarian work whil...

Judith Simmer-Brown Buddhist Scholar

Judith Simmer-Brown has been on the faculty of Naropa University for 27 years and is currently the Chair of the Religious Studies Department...

Petra Nemcova -- Supermodel with Personality

Petra Nemcova is the fashion supermodel from the Czech Republic whose star has been rising over the past few years! Why did I write this len...

Laura Caldwell

Laura Caldwell is an author and a former lawyer. Her first book Burning the Map was considered one of the best books of 2002.This lens i...

Deanna Mascle

I know you really want to read every word that I've ever written but I'm not about to put the full text of my novels on line and cannot ge...

Jennifer Harman

At tournaments. In Vegas. On the road. Check out exclusive pictures of Jennifer Harman playing poker all over the globe.

Jennifer Harman ...

Strong Biblical Women, Part 3

B"HThere are three Patriarchs and four Matriarchs in the Bible. That's because Yaakov (Jacob) had two wives.

Kate Salley Palmer

I remember the first time I met Kate Salley Palmer. It was in the early 70's and we had a mutual friend. Both of these women were way ahead...

Helen Mirren

Helen Mirren's Best Actress Academy Award win for The Queen crowns a 42 year career as a talented, versatile, and chameleonic act...

Beth Moore Connection

Books, DVDs, Bible Studies, CDs, and the list goes on; this lady from Texas is marching strongly the path God has laid before her. Here you...

Dawn Staley: Athlete, Entrepreneur/Philanthropist, Mentor

Dawn Staley was a high school basketball player of the year, a three time gold metal Olympian who was elected to carry the flag in the 2004 ...

The Celebration of Margaret Elizabeth Kings 100th Birthday

The year was 1909, the place Varnamo, Sweden, and Ruth Anna (Karlson) and Thure Josephson welcomed their first child, Margaret, into the wor...

Debbie Macomber Has Sold Over Sixty Million Books.

The message of this book is DON'T BE AFRAID TO DREAM. Debbie shares her own stories of heartache, frustration, and triumph as she encourage...

Marianne Williamson - Superhero, Spiritual Activist

Marianne Williamson is a best-selling author, lecturer, a Spiritual Activist and the Founder of the Peace Alliance, a citizen action organiz...

Barbara Sher

Barbara Sher is a speaker, career/lifestyle coach, and best-selling author of seven books on goal achievement. Her books have sold millions ...

Tilda Swinton

Tilda Swinton began her acting career with British filmmaker Derek Jarman.  You may recognize her as the gender-fluid title character i...

Strong Biblical Women -- Tamar, Mother of Kings

When her father-in-law broke his promise to her, Tamar took matters into her own hands and, in the process, became the mother of kings.

Frida Kahlo: The Woman, The Wife, The Artist

Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) was a Mexican painter, who has achieved great international popularity. She painted using vibrant colors in a style ...

Susan Jacoby

Susan Jacoby, who began her writing career as a reporter for THE WASHINGTON POST, is the author of five books, including WILD JUSTICE, a Pul...

Kirsty MacColl: Humor, Tragedy, and Song

From her witty satires to her songs of longing, Kirsty MacColl was a consummate singer and songwriter.  Her voice, creativity, and sens...

Molly Pitcher - Revolutionary War Heroine

"Molly Pitcher" was a nickname given by Revolutionary War soldiers to the women, often wives of the soldiers or camp followers, who brough...

Emma Goldman

Emma Goldman biography and anarchist thoughts.

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Evelyn Ng

Birthday: September 14, 1975
Birth Place: Toronto, Canada
Raised in: Toronto, Canada
Resides in: Las Vegas, Neveda, USA
Marital Status...

Bernadette Peters

Being a huge musical theater buff, of course I have my favorite stars.  Bernadette Peters is my all-time favorite.  She's one of ...

Zora Neale Hurston

As an African American folklorist and writer, Zora's work was well before it's time. Much of her work was created during the Harlem Renais...

Rumiko Takahashi

Rumiko Takahashi is my favorite female author. I love her books. I love the characters she creates. I love the shows and movies based on her...

Jennifer Crusie

Yep, I said Temptation, OH.  The title of the book is "Welcome To Temptation" and it is supposed to be in Ohio and it is an a...

Phenomenal Women Headquarters

"Phenomenal Women" is a group about women who have made a significant difference in the world. These women are the ultimate role models ...

Vivienne Westwood

Vivienne Westwood got her start in the Kings Road, designing clothes for punk rockers back in the 1970s.  Over the decades she moved fr...

Ada Lovelace: The First Programmer

Ada Lovelace was a woman of high class in the early 1800s. Her work on Charles Babbage's mechanical machine, which was essentially an early...

Mitchell Baker

Mitchell Baker is the CEO of Mozilla Corporation, part of the company behind the open source Firefox web browser and Thunderbird email progr...

Karen Pryor

When my Mum first adopted me, she wanted to make sure that I was a happy, healthy pup. One of the ways to get there was to show me the 'rop...

Strong Biblical Women6 -- Yocheved, Moses's Mother

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Yocheved was the Mother of Miriam, Aharon (Aaron) and Moshe (Moses) making her the Mother of Priests and Kings.

Louise Hay

Louise Hay (b. 1926) is a motivational author and the founder of Hay House publishing company. She has authored several self-help and New Th...

SARK- A Succulent Wild Woman

SARK is the acronym of self-help/inspirational author  Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy, whose works have had a large impact on my life...

Kate Loving Shenk

I first met Kate Loving Shenk at Pat O'Bryan's Portable Empire University. Since that time, she has become one of my dearest on-line frien...

Cristina Fernández De Kirchner

Cristina Fernández De Kirchner is Argentina's current president. Formerly, she was the first lady of Argentina when her husband, N&e...

Lilly Ledbetter?

I married at 20, quit college and went to work to put my husband through school. It was a common practice in those days, 1968. I went to wor...

Dara Torres

Dara Torres is a 41 year old American swimmer who will be competing in her 5th Olympics this summer in Beijing, China.

Jane Byrne: 50th Mayor of Chicago

Learn about Jane Byrne, the 50th Mayor of Chicago! Elected in 1979, Jane Byrne was the first and so far only female Mayor of the city of Chi...

Corrie Woods and The Woman's Field Guide to Exceptional Living

If you've been living day to day and feel like your life is boring and even without purpose, it's time to shake things up. There's no rea...

Margaret Anstee

Dame Margaret Anstee worked for the United Nations from 1952 to 1993, leaving the organization at the highest rank under the Secretary-Gener...

International Womens Day

First proposed by German political Clara Zetkin in 1910, International Women's Day was officially adopted in 1911.

Celebrated on March 8...

Charly Leetham

I am happy to introduce you to Charly Leetham. Charly is an expert in all things related to computers, the internet and internet marketing. ...

A Rose by any other name would still be a hero

Every charitible cause that comes along has a reason for being. Special needs are able to be met, dreams realized and awareness raised throu...

Should Obama Pick Oprah for Vice President?

Since Oprah endorsed Obama before the Iowa primaries, it has been the source of many rumors about who would be the vice president nomination...

Sara Feigenholtz: Illinois State Representative

Sara Feigenholtz is a Democratic member of the Illinois House of Representatives, representing the 12th District since 1995. Feigenholtz liv...

Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson, The Most Learned Woman in America

Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson was considered "The Most Learned Woman in America" by her contemporaries and by a later biographer. Reknowned f...

Nicole C. Mullen

After seeing Nicole C. Mullen at the Women of Faith Conference in Denver, CO, I knew I had to create a lens about her. She is so full of lif...

Athina: The Dark Side Of Victory WHY SHOULD WOMEN AND GIRLS WORSHIP A MALE GOD?

I wrote Athina: The Dark Side Of Victory, the first in a series of historical novels (historical facts with fictional twists) dealing with s...

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Visions of Patti
Rolling Stone, 27 July 1978.
Cover photo by Annie Leibovitz.

Background information:
Birth name Patricia Lee Sm...

Dr. Uma Gupta

Dr. Uma Gupta serves as an inspiring role model to women on the journey to pursuing careers in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathemat...

Edith Wharton - Intriguing Insights into the American Experience

Edith Wharton (1862-1937) was born into a tightly controlled society known as "Old New York" at a time when women were discouraged from ac...

Annie Duke

Recently, Duke endorsed The ESPN Poker Club product line which offers poker aficionados premium quality poker products of unmatched quality,...

Melissa Etheridge

Born May 29, 1961, in Leavenworth, KS, Melissa is a Mom, accomplished singer-songwriter, Gay Right Activist, Grammy and Oscar winner,environ...