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Actress Helen Menken was arrested with Mae West, married Humphrey Bogart, and produced the Stage Door Canteen in World War II.

Mary Goldsmith Prag, California educator and mother of the first Jewish Congresswoman, dies.

Natalie Goldstein Heineman was a voice for children at every level of government.

Photographer and animal rights activist Linda Eastman marries Paul McCartney.

Ruth F. Weiss was the last European eyewitness of the Chinese Communist Revolution.

Union organizer Rose Finkelstein Norwood said, "When I saw a detective coming, I’d hide in the coats."

Sally Fox - "I am driven to try to document what women are really doing, so they won't be taken for granted."

Stella Adler premieres Awake and Sing.

Regina Spektor gets "lost in the sounds."

“You have to take risks with vision in mind,” says Naomi Adler, first female CEO of the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia.

Singer Shirley Cohen Steinberg records the beloved Passover song One Morning.

Susan Brownmiller: "My chosen path – to fight against physical harm, specifically the terror of violence against women."

V: "I am proposing that we reconceive the dream."

Judy Blume says, “Those of us who write do it because there are stories inside us burning to get out."

“There are shortcuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them.” - Grand Hotel novelist Vicki Baum

"You never walked away from a conversation with art curator Jeanette Ingberman without having learned something.”

The congregation president wrote of Paula Ackerman, "she is qualified, and we want her.”

Lina Abarbanell's career spanned from Die Fledermaus to Porgy and Bess.

Mary Antin writes, “I was born, I have lived, and I have been made over. Is it not time to write my life’s story?”

“The only rule is that there are no rules. Anything is possible." - Artist Helen Frankenthaler

Ruth Nussbaum preserves a Torah on Kristallnacht.

There are 230 heroines in Caroline Moorehead’s book "A Train in Winter."