Post Assignment #2

So far, I have only assigned one other Post Assignment, and that was a response to the movie "Who Killed the Electric Car". Now that most of you have solid blogs set up, there will be more Post Assigments coming.

Last week we discussed famous men and women. Many of you were surprised to realise that the class wasn't able to come up with many women who were famous for their intelligence. Your assignment is to create a post dedicated to a woman who is famous for her intelligence. Be creative and be sure to explain why this woman is so important. You may also want to comment on why her name may not be famous or why she didn't get very much media attention or why you had never heard of her before.

Here is a list of some famous women. Try picking someone you have never heard of before. I'd like to have all the posts be about different people, so please comment to this post with your choice. If no one else has claimed that person, than you may claim her.

Benazir Bhutto
Jane Addams
Madeleine Albright
Mary McLeod Bethune
Marian Wright Edelman
Indira Gandhi
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Emma Goldman
Anita Hill
Dolores Huerta
Maggie Kuhn
Golda Meir
Rigoberta Menchu
Sandra Day O'Connor
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Rosa Parks
Alice Paul
Frances Perkins
Eva Peron
Jiang Qing
Eleanor Roosevelt
Phyllis Schlafly
Gloria Steinem
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi
Maya Angelou
Hanna Arendt
Rachel Carson
Agatha Christie
Simone de Beauvoir
Anne Frank
Betty Friedan
Ann Landers
Margaret Mitchell
Toni Morrison
Dorothy Parker
Sylvia Plath
Gertrude Stein
Barbara Walters
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Virginia Woolf
Virginia Apgar
Helen Caldicott
Marie Curie
Rosalind Franklin
Jane Goodall
Grace Hopper
Melanie Klein
Mary Leakey
Barbara McClintock
Lise Meitner
Coco Chanel
Julia Child
Elsie de Wolfe
Katharine Graham
Ruth Handler
Estee Lauder
Mary Quant
Marian Anderson
Margaret Bourke-White
Maria Callas
Isadora Duncan
Ella Fitzgerald
Martha Graham
Billie Holiday
Janis Joplin
Frida Kahlo
Dorothea Lange
Georgia O'Keeffe
Mary Pickford
Leni Riefenstahl