(“conferring her own crown of greatness and genius”: Joni Mitchell’s clever self-portrait based on a van Gogh painting)
Ingrid Bergman
Juliette Binoche
Deborah Kerr
Vanessa Redgrave
Elizabeth Taylor
Virginia Woolf
Agatha Christie
Jane Austen
Emily Dickinson
Willa Cather
Alice Munro
Gabrielle Roy
Margaret Laurence
Emily Carr
Camille Claudel
Joan of Arc
Florence Nightingale
Mother Teresa
Helen Keller
Amelia Earhart
Jane Goodall
Rachel Carson
Joan Baez
Janis Ian
Suzanne Vega
Buffy Sainte-Marie
Joni Mitchell
Judy Collins
……………………..
I wonder how many young women out there today would name any of the above, and, if so, which ones and why.
Likewise, which ones, if any, men of various ages would cite.