Week 39: Rita Rudner

“I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor’s office was full of portraits by Picasso.”

—Rita Rudner

Comedian, actress & writer

Week 38: Monica Seles

“I stopped dieting and
I started living life. That's how I lost 37 pounds.”

—Monica Seles
Former #1 World Tennis Champion

Week 37: Mary Coyle Chase

“It's quite possible to leave your home for a walk in the early morning air and return a different person—beguiled, enchanted.”

—Mary Coyle Chase

Journalist, playwright and screenwriter,

primarily known for having written the

Broadway play Harvey.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize (drama)

Week 36: Nancy Astor

“Basic beauty lies in the way a woman walks; it is health and an attitude to life.”


—Nancy Astor
First woman to serve
as a Member of Parliament
in the British House of Commons

Week 35: Tina Turner

“The real power behind whatever success I have now was something I found within myself - something that's in all of us, I think, a little piece of God just waiting to be discovered.”

—Tina Turner

Singer & Actress
“The Queen of Rock n’ Roll”

Quote O Magazine (December 2003)

Week 34: Golda Meir

“Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either.”


—Golda Meir

Fourth Prime Minister of the State of Israel

Week 33: Christine Verstraete

"Butter cookies," Lita said. "Any cookies really. They always work on me."

—Christine Verstraete

Author and journalist

Quote from her book:
Searching for a
Starry Night:
A Miniature Art Mystery










"When one woman helps another woman, the world wins." db