Betty White

“All creatures must learn to coexist. That’s why the brown bear and the field mouse can share their lives in harmony. Of course, they can’t mate or the mice would explode.”

Betty White

Actress, comedian & recent host of

Saturday Night Live!

Photo: Jamie McCarthy/WireImage

A Woman In Nashville

“We were soul-weary and body-weary after spending the day clearing out water soaked memories, ruined mementos and dirt caked dreams. Some of us were still covered in the foul mud that crept into our homes and the homes of our neighbors … I felt so grateful for my community. Grateful for the neighbors who banded together when cut off from the rest of the world by raging waters…rescued folks from their front porches by boat...Grateful that we support each other physically and emotionally. We left each other last night...a little more full in the soul than when we had arrived.”
Paige Moore, Bellevue resident, Nashville, Tennessee
Nashville/Middle Tennessee Red Cross

Queen Rania of Jordan

"... education is transformative.
It can rescue a girl from the burdens of adulthood: early marriage and premature pregnancy. It can empower a woman to take control of her life: mind, body, and soul."

Rania Al Adbullah
Queen of Jordan

M.F.K. Fisher

"It seems to me that our three basic needs,
for food and security and love, are so entwined
that we cannot think of one without the other."

M.F.K. Fisher
Author and winner of the 1978 Grande Dame Award
So unlike female-authored cook books of its era (1937),
“Serve It Forth” was thought to be written by a man.

Marian Wright Edelman

"Service is the rent we pay for living."

Marian Wright Edelman

American activist for the rights of children,

founder and president of the

Children's Defense Fund,

now in its fourth decade.

Bobbi Brown

“Beauty isn’t about looking perfect. It’s about celebrating your individuality.”

Bobbi Brown
Makeup artist and CEO of Bobbi Brown Professional Cosmetics
Actively involved with & major financial supporter of
Dress for Success & Jane Addams High School for Academic Careers

Dr. Mae Jemison

“Your life’s work accumulates every day, every second you’re
around.”

—Dr. Mae Jemison

Chemical engineer, scientist, physician, teacher & astronaut who blasted into orbit aboard the space shuttle Endeavor, September 12, 1992