I've added a few more quotes from Coco Chanel to the collection. Enjoy!

When I think of the prototypical "mom" of the 1950s and 1960s, June Lockhart is one who comes to mind. In this extended interview with June Lockhart, she reflects ... Read More

NPR's Morning Edition features Alice Walker talking about her discovery of author Zora Neale Hurston, and how she helped bring Hurston's work back to public attention. Also includes links to ... Read More

Born as Josephine Esther Mentzer, Estee Lauder's marketing techniques helped build one of the most successful cosmetic companies in the world. A biography and voter registration records date her ... Read More

A recent PBS documentary highlights the role that Albert Einstein's first wife, Mileva Maric, may have played in the development of his theories of relativity, quantum physics, and Brownian motion. ... Read More

The Lion in Winter is a literary retelling of the relationship between Eleanor of Aquitaine and Henry II of England. Historical facts: Eleanor led their sons in rebellion against ... Read More

Filmmakers David Baxter and Gretchen Somerfeld have won financial backing to make two films about women scientists: Rosalind Franklin (who was on the team that discovered how DNA works) and ... Read More

What a sad day -- just over a year after suffering a "stroke-like event" that kept her from writing, Mary McGrory, Washington Post opinion columnist, died last night in Washington. Mary ... Read More

The Washington Post's book critic, Jonathan Yardley, reviews the 1938 Daphne du Maurier Gothic novel, Rebecca in this March 2004 article. He draws parallels between Charlotte Bronte and du ... Read More

Hilary Mantel reviews four books in the London Review of Books, tied together with a common theme: young women who fasted to the point of physical suffering, in the name ... Read More

Read about ancient queens and other women, all famous for fighting battles and leading troops. The list includes the Amazons, Queen Artemisia, Queen Boudicca, Queen Samsi, Queen Tomyris, Trung Sisters, Queen ... Read More

She's not as well known as her sister, Lucretia Mott, but Martha Coffin Wright was an abolitionist (her daughter married the son of abolitionist leader William Lloyd Garrison) and an ... Read More

PBS will air a new movie about Emma Goldman ("Red Emma") today in most markets. They have supplemented this presentation with a website that will contain a transcript, and ... Read More

Selected quotes from Clare Boothe Luce, a socialite, member of the US Congress (1942-46) and ambassador to Italy -- as well as a writer and speaker who was noted for ... Read More

In March and April, American military and civilian leaders in the Bush and Clinton administrations testified before the 9-11 Commission in public hearings. Among those testifying were Madeleine K. ... Read More

The Pritzger Prize has been described as the equivalent of the Nobel Prize for architecture -- and for the first time in the award's history, it has been awarded to ... Read More

An exhibition in China that opens later this month focuses on Nushu, a language of, by, and for women only. The language is believed to have originated almost 1700 ... Read More