an archive of notable childfree women
PEERAGE
Jane Austen
Author
b. 1775 d. 1817
Greta Garbo
Actor
b. 1905 d. 1990
Teresa Graves
Actor
b. 1948 d. 2002
Carrie Brownstein
Multi-Hyphenate
b. 1974
Kier Kirby
Musician
b. 1963
Louisa May Alcott
Author
b. 1832 d. 1888
Ava Gardner
Actor
b. 1922 d. 1990
Lillian Gish
Actor
b. 1893 d. 1993
Loie Fuller
Performer
b. 1862 d. 1928
Elaine Stritch
Actor
b. 1925 d. 2014
Dame Helen Mirren
Actor
b. 1945
Norma Kamali
Designer
b. 1945
Gloria Steinem
Icon
b. 1934
“Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.”
Joan Mitchell
Artist
b. 1925 d. 1992
Edith Head
Designer
b. 1897 d. 1981
Betty White
Icon
b. 1922
Florence Scovel Shinn
Philosopher
b. 1871 d. 1940
“Hope looks forward. Faith knows it has already received and acts accordingly.”
Christine McVie
Musician
b. 1943
Virginia Woolf
Author
b. 1882 d. 1941
Eudora Welty
Author
b. 1909 d. 2001
“I am a writer who came of a sheltered life. A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.”