a partial list, but a major barf alert
If these are the women of the century, women are a pathetic sex.
Actresses, comediennes, and singers: Janis Joplin, Lucille Ball, Carol Burnett, Katharine Hepburn, Oprah Winfrey, Jane Fonda, Madonna, Bette Midler, Rosie O’Donnell, Vivien Leigh, Hattie McDaniel, Jessye Norman, Maria Callas, Marilyn Monroe, Celine Dion, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Marian Anderson, Greta Garbo, Lauren Bacall ...
Artists Georgia O'Keeffe and Frida Kahlo. Photographers Margaret Bourke-White and Dorothea Lange. Dancers Martha Graham and Isadora Duncan. Poet Maya Angelou. Writer Ann Landers.
Sports figures "Babe" Didrickson, Gertrude Ederle, Sonja Henie, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Wilma Rudolph, Billie Jean King, Chris Evert, Nadia Comenici.
Aviator Amelia Earhart and astronaut Lt. Eileen Collins. Scientist Marie Curie. Fashion designer Coco Chanel. Executive Katharine Graham. The created figure of Rosie the Riveter.
Women known for their activism or political involvements: Gloria Steinem, editor of Ms. Magazine, Rosa Parks, Margaret Sanger, Jane Addams, Ann Richards, Alice Paul, Helen Keller, Annie Sullivan, Rachel Carson, Betty Friedan, Phyllis Schlafly, Marian Wright Edelman, Anita Hill (the transcript calls her Anita Thomas at one point!), Mother Teresa, Margaret Mead, Madeleine Albright.
First Ladies Eleanor Roosevelt, Jacqueline Kennedy, Betty Ford and Hillary Rodham Clinton. Princess Diana. Heads of state Indira Gandhi, Golda Meir, and Margaret Thatcher.
And, though she professes embarrassment to be included: Barbara Walters.
yes, Celine Dion... she was at the top of my list :) /s