If they beleive a second rate actress and a traitor is the best Women have to offer over the last 100 years then they need to loose their money on this peice of junk book.

Usually I don't bother reviewing so-so books, but I have to ask: How could they include such women as Lady Di (oh, please), Jiang Qing, Eva Peron, Sonja Henie (Sonja who?), and what appaled me the most, Phyllis Schlafly, in the list? When I saw the book I though it would be about women who had helped to elevate our status and create better conditions for us all, but Schlafly appears here, and I quote "as the woman who helped shot down the Equals Right Amendment(....)" I was mad. Where are the truly deserving women, the ones that did try their best to leave the world a little better that when they found it? Where is Eileen Collins, Gabriela Mistral, Karen Horney, and why not, Audrey Hepburn (isn't she a way more reasonable choice than Jane Fonda?) I'll grant that they compiled a more or less good list of important women, but I'm glad I borrowed this book instead of buying it. I have better plans for my money.

One must suppose that Barbara Walters is correct by stating in the forward on page 8, "Every woman alive today owes an immeasurable debt to the women in this book." Although after having read the book, there are some of the women to whom one, such as I, can not relate.

Some are these women one has read about; while others one has studied about in school. I think one is drawn to those women who have lived during one's lifetime or not too long before. Those who are not among my favorites are Gloria Steinem, Mary Quant, Martha Stewart, Jane Fonda, Madonna, and Helen Gurley Brown. Among those whom I admire the most are Mother Teresa; Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis; Diana, Princess of Wales; Eleanor Roosevelt; Betty Ford; Hillary Rodham Clinton; and Marilyn Monroe.

Hillary Clinton states on page 22, "Our global future depends on the willingness of every nation to invest in its people, especially women and children." Mother Teresa said, "Each of us is merely a small instrument; all of us, after accomplishing our mission, will disappear." -page 53. Eleanor Roosevelt is credited with the statement, "It is better to light a candle that to curse the darkness." - page 46

I highly recommend this book for everyone regardless of gender. Since I have subscribed to LADIES' HOME JOURNAL for many years, I have read about the more recent ladies. As a teenager, I can recall this magazine was always in my parents' home.