The mother of modern dance chafed under what she saw as the rigid restrictions of classical forms and replaced them with free, expansive, expressive…
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Sanger founded the American Birth Control League, which became Planned Parenthood. The sixth of 11 children — she felt that frequent pregnancies…
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Rendered blind and deaf by a childhood illness, Keller was freed from her isolation by the extraordinary efforts of her dedicated teacher, Anne Sullivan…
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She's known not just for being an important and inventive novelist, but for reminding us, in A Room of One's Own, of what remarkable…
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Her personal life was complicated, her design credo simple and elegant: "Fashion fades; only style remains the same," she said. Merci for the little…
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FDR's helpmate, national reassurer during WWII, friend to working women and the downtrodden, battler against injustice, Eleanor Roosevelt overcame…
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With a life that was just as captivating as her art, O'Keeffe broke the all rules for female artists of her time.
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