My choices: Molly Ivins for her incisive wit, warmth and wisdom; Susan B. Anthony for recognizing the power implicit in women’s suffrage;Harriet Tubman for her death-defying courage and commitment to freedom; and Jo March of Little Women for her long-time, long-term positive, “feminist” influence on young readers

Welcome to my world! How intriguing to find a gathering place for women who seem to be vital, intelligent, passionate, committed…. and who’ve been around long enough to have some experience and wisdom. I’m right there with you! Thanks for creating the space/place in your busy lives. I’ll be back. (Laurie J. Macdonald)

Hillary Clinton, Whoopi Goldberg, Barbara Walters and Ingrid Bergman - Joyce Enderle - e-mail - muzzyenderle@cox.net

As I read down the list of names offered. I see some of my own favorites like Queen Victoria, Lady Thatcher,Amelia Earhart and a famous woman hero known as Tahirih. I know that the story of Tahirih might not be familiar with the print media but her famous has echoed around the planet. In the U.S. you will find the Tahirih Justice Centers to help battered women. In the class room of schools across America teachers are finding young girls named after Tahirih popping up everywhere. Shoghi Effendi referred to her as “the first woman suffrage martyr.” Tahirih outstanding women who serve as models or paradigms of this “new womanhood.”

1) Golda Meir ( Golda lived in Milwaukee for 15 years. During that time, her father became a US citizen, so she may have been a naturalized US citizen) 2) Tina Turner 3) Barbara Walters 4) Dolly Parton

Well, I struggled with this, but here are my 4: Susan B Anthony, Betty Friedan, Eleanor Roosevelt and Oprah Winfrey. What mystifies me is WHY anyone would choose Condoleeza Rice. Better Britney Spears.

I would choose Joan of Arc, Eleanor Roosevelt, Rosa Parks and Marie Curie. Wonderful to have trouble narrowing down the choices!

Kelly Ripa (of course) Eleanor Roosevelt, Lucille Ball and Margaret Chase Smith

I responded before I registered, so here are my picks again: Eleanor Roosevelt, a leading suffragette (Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton), Elizabeth Blackwell (first femal physician) and the first female head of a coed university or founder of a university.

I posted this before Saturday’s launch as well, and I am really startled that so few women have objected to the formulation of your debut question. I would never want to put anyone’s faces on Mt Rushmore because it is a monument to the genocide of the Native Americans and the failure to honor treaties related to the most sacred of locations for the Lakota in the Black Hills. It was a way of taking the gold and the spirit and despoiling nature, so why would I ever want to put some wonderful woman’s face on that? However, to address the heart of your question - who are the world’s most wonderful women, I could imagine a monument to such four fine exemplars as Isadora Duncan, Alice Waters, Hildegard von Bingen and Sojourner Truth. Best of luck on the new endeavor but I really hope you will move away from a 70’s era view of feminism, politics and our current situation. Surely women over 40 are smarter than that! TC

Great Question. I’m taking the tack that they do not have to have been Presidents - otherwise the stone is bare. So - Eleanor Roosevelt, Margaret Sanger, Betty Frieidan, Rosa Parks. But there are so many great women in our past - and in our future. I too would like to see a tally of which names were mentioned the most.

SINCE WHEN HAS CANDACE BERGEN BEEN CEREBRALLY CHALLENGED?

If we had a Mt Rushmore-Texas, I’d love to see Barbara Jordan, Ann Richards, Lady Bird Johnson and Molly Ivins.

Sacagawea; Susan B. Anthony; Amelia Earhart; Eleanor Roosevelt

Off the top of my head, thinking only of formerly-alive Americans: Margaret Sanger, Madame C.J. Walker, Josephine Baker, Gertrude Stein.