Favorite Celebrations ~  Women Writers Webster's Third New International Dictionary

"I am comforted by life's stability, by earth's unchangeableness." ~ Pearl S. Buck

Abigail Adams
Joy Adamson
Louisa May Alcott
Maya Angelou
Hannah Arendt
Margaret Atwood
Jane Austen

Yoshimoto Banana
Katharine Lee Bates
Simone de Beauvoir
Francesca Lia Block
Judy Blume
Nellie Bly
Louise Bogan
Erma Bombeck
Elizabeth Bowen
Gwendolyn Brooks
E. Barrett Browning
Pearl S. Buck

Rachel Carson
Willa Cather
Kate Chopin
Agatha Christie
Colette

Emily Dickinson
Joan Didion
Annie Dillard
Harriet Doerr

George Eliot
Linda Ellerbee
Nora Ephron
Laura Esquivel

Anne Frank
Betty Friedan
Margaret Fuller

Amrita, by Banana Yoshimoto

Zona Gale
Emma Goldman
Ellen Goodman
Sue Grafton

Lorraine Hansberry
Etty Hillesum
Zora Neale Hurston

Erica Jong

Helen Keller
Caroline Kennedy
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Ann Landers
Harper Lee
Madeleine L'Engle
Ursula Le Guin
Doris Lessing
Denise Levertov
Ann Morrow Lindbergh
Audre Lorde
Amy Lowell

Carolyn Mackler
Carson McCullers
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Gabriela Mistral
Margaret Mitchell
Maria Montessori
Marianne Moore
Toni Morrison
Lady Murasaki

Anais Nin

Cynthia Ozick

Dorothy Parker
Sylvia Plath
Emily Post
Beatrix Potter

Anna Quindlen
Ayn Rand
Anne Rice
Christina Rossetti
J.K. Rowling

George Sand
Sappho
May Sarton
Dorothy Sayers
Marie de Sevigne
Anne Sexton
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Dodie Smith
Freya Stark
Gertrude Stein
Martha Stewart
Harriet Beecher Stowe

Amy Tan
St. Teresa of Avilla
Pamela Lyndon Travers
Barbara Tuchman

Brenda Ueland

Alice Walker
Simone Weil
Eudora Welty
Edith Wharton
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Marianne Williamson
Virginia Woolf

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