Today’s question of the day reminded me of the following …

At a performance of Pirandello’s "Enrico IV," some years ago, we spontaneously invited several people we happened to know in the audience (Washington D.C. is a very small town if you are a native) to come home with us afterwards for scrambled eggs, prosecco and a continuation of our intermission conversation, taken from the theme of the play: Whose life would you choose to live? The idea was pleasure, not glory, so you wouldn’t say, for example, Joan of Arc or Abraham Lincoln. In this random assortment of people from a variety of professions, the men all chose different historical figures, but every one of the women chose the SAME woman.

Can you guess who we chose? I’ll give you two hints: Literary. Pioneer. Tell me who you think she was; and check back tomorrow to see if you were correct.