Sorry but I’d hardly put Baba WaWa in that august company.

All of these women so belong on this list - each a stand-out in her own way, all to be applauded for being in the forefront of increasingly visible role of women in our world today.  Remember that commercial of old:  "You’ve come a long way, baby"??? There may have been potholes along the road, some deeper than others, but these women have broken new ground ahead, and made it so much smoother for the rest of us.  WOW!

Nice piece, wOw — Thank you. And thanks for the link to Dulcinea. That Hetty Green sure was a character. I wonder how she would tell her own story — guess we’ll never know. 

I once did a paper on Dulcinea, Don Quixote’s fictional muse. All these women featured are certainly Dulcinea’s in their own right and there are hundreds more. For all of the women who braved the onslaughts , had the courage to follow their dreams, and erected their own wind mills, our accolades go out along with a great debt of gratitude.  

Great work WOW!  Love it.

What a tribute to some great women!  And, I think of Golda Meir, the 4th Prime Minister of Israel, born in Russia, raised in Wisconsin and a great mediator.  Helen Keller showed all of us what courage is.  And, who can forget Helen Hayes, who was one of our greatest actresses.  Oh, and please remember Althea Gibson.  Born in 1927 in S. Carolina to black sharecroppers, she became the first black woman on the world tennis tour and won the Grand Slam back in 1956. 

Thank you, wow.

Thank you for this terrific feature.  It should inspire any woman who reads it.   And thank you as well for findingDulcinea - what a fantastic site, I’ll be visiting it often.  Such a trove of credible information, which is not easy to find on the Internet.

 Sally Ride

To discover a woman who cared and DARED, but who has sadly been denied her rightful place in history for her activism for civil rights, look up the story of Juliette Hampton Morgan. She was a priveleged white contemporary of Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks, and a native of Montgomery, Alabama.  She risked (and ultimately lost) her place in southern white society by standing up for what was right. Her story is both tragic and compelling, but the biggest injustice ever done to her is that she has been forgotten by history. Miss Morgan was, in fact, the FIRST person who pulled a cord and stopped city Montgomery city busses because of the way black riders were being treated!

Loved them all. Mean Hetty Green lived in Vermont.