To name a few, current and on the road, and one or two imaginary: Billie Holiday, Dorothy Parker, Eleanor Roosevelt, Michaelle Jean, Aung San Suu Kyi, Samantha Power, Ellen Gilchrist, Dorothy Fields, Rosalind Franklin, Barbara Stanwyck, Nina Simone, Margaret Sanger, Betty Comden, Judy Holiday, Rachel Notley, the Boulanger sisters, the Andrews Sisters, Lil Hardin Armstrong, Jill Lepore, Toshiko Akiyoshi, Madame Chiang, Sylvia Plath, Joan of Arc, Gwyneth Paltrow, Marge (Marjorie Henderson Buell), Coco Chanel, Alicia de Larrocha, Jessye Norman, Babe Didrickson Zaharias, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Katie Malloch, Emily Bronte, Emilie-Claire Barlow, Martha Argerich, Ann Reinking, Bebe Neuwirth, Katherine Jefferts Schori, Anne Boleyn, Deborah Eisenberg, Serena Williams, Cyd Charisse, Portland Hoffa, Anna Moffo, Mary Lou Williams, Florence Nightingale, Marjorie Hyams, Teddi King, Joanne Brackeen, Susie Arioli, Jane Withers, Judy Canova, Pansy Yokum, Brenda Starr, Little Lulu, Olive Oyl, Ma Perkins, the Dragon Lady, Mrs. Nussbaum, and, far from least, the long line of strong women that began in Bromsgrove and Bad Axe.
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