| Summary: |
n this luminous volume, New York Times bestselling writer Julia Pierpont and artist Manjit Thapp match short, vibrant, and surprising biographies with stunning full-color portraits of secular female "saints": champions of strength and progress. These women broke ground, broke ceilings, and broke molds-including: Maya Angelou · Jane Austen · Ruby Bridges · Rachel Carson · Shirley Chisholm · Marie Curie & Irène Joliot Curie · Isadora Duncan · Amelia Earhart · Artemisia Gentileschi · Grace Hopper · Dolores Huerta · Frida Kahlo · Billie Jean King · Audre Lorde · Wilma Mankiller · Toni Morrison · Michelle Obama · Sandra Day O'Connor · Sally Ride · Eleanor Roosevelt · Margaret Sanger · Sappho · Nina Simone · Gloria Steinem · Kanno Sugako · Harriet Tubman · Mae West · Virginia Woolf · Malala Yousafzai. |
