an archive of notable childfree women
PEERAGE
H.H. Richardson
Author
b. 1870 d. 1946
Gertrude Abercrombie
Artist
b. 1909 d. 1977
Madeline Kahn
Actor
b. 1942 d. 1999
Thelma Golden
Curator b. 1965
“The privilege I've had as a curator is not just the discovery of new works... but what I've discovered about myself and what I can offer in the space of an exhibition - to talk about beauty, to talk about power, to talk about ourselves, and to talk and speak to each other.”
Anna May Wong
Actor
b. 1905 d. 1961
Hilma af Klint
Artist
b. 1862 d. 1944
Anh Duong
Artist
b. 1965
Shirley Chisholm
Pioneer
b. 1924 d. 2005
“It is not female egotism to say that the future of mankind may very well be ours to determine. It is a fact. The warmth, gentleness, and compassion that are part of the female stereo- type are positive human values, values that are becoming more and more important as the values of our world begin to shatter and fall from our grasp.”
Fleur Cowles
Editor
b. 1908 d. 2009
" A flair for something–I don’t care what it is, but whatever it is, have elegance in it, even if it’s shining shoes. And knowledge–whatever you do, learn more about what you’re doing."
Marilyn McCoo
Singer
b. 1943
George Eliot
Author
b. 1819 d. 1880
Beatrice Bruteau
Author
b. 1930 d. 2014
Renee Zellweger
Actor b. 1969
"Motherhood has never been an ambition. I don't think like that. I never have expectations like 'when I'm 19 I'm going to do this, and by the time I've hit 25 I'm going to do that'. I just take things as they come, each day at a time."
Anita Loos
Screenwriter
b. 1889 d. 1981
Diane Sawyer
Journalist
b. 1945
Jacqueline Bissett
Actor
b. 1944
Anjelica Huston
Actor
b. 1951
Lee Krasner
Artist
b. 1908 d. 1984
Simone de Beauvoir
Author
b. 1908 d. 1986
“The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.”
Louise Lasser
Actor
b. 1939