“Once upon a time there was an old woman who loved to knit. She lived with her Old Man in the middle of a woods in a curious one-room schoolhouse which was rather untidy, and full of wool.” If you enjoy knitting, then you’ve no doubt heard of Elizabeth Zimmermann, …
She lived 95 years, as many years as necessary to complete the work she felt called to do. And the FBI maintained a file on her up until the end. Educator. Newspaper publisher. Civil rights activist. Housing and labor rights advocate. Outspoken critic of police violence. Vice presidential candidate. Charlotta …
Karura Forest sits in the northern corner of Nairobi, Kenya, an oasis of more than 1,000 hectares of native trees, waterfalls and nature trails surrounded by a modern city of more than 3 million people. It’s one of the largest urban forests in the world, and it wouldn’t exist without …
Julia Child mastered French cuisine, but before Paris she lived in Sri Lanka and China working for the US government.
One of the most glamorous actresses of the 1930s and 1940s, Hedy Lamarr was promoted as “the world’s most beautiful woman.” She co-starred with the likes of Clark Gable, Jimmy Stewart and Spencer Tracy. She dated Howard Hughes. She produced movies at a time when, particularly for a woman, that …
The first American woman to become a self-made millionaire started out with a simple wish: to earn enough money to give her only daughter the formal education she herself never received. What she did instead was prove the ability of women to succeed on their own terms. Madam C.J. Walker’s …
