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Put A Woman On A Pedestal
We asked writers to create monologues for Statueworthy Women!

Stella Adler
theater luminary and acting teacher by D. Lee Miller
Bea Arthur
actor, comic and activist by Allison Fradkin
Alice Austen
photography pioneer by Fengar Gael
Luisa Capetillo
activist and labor leader by Magdalena Gomez
Henrietta Vinton Davis
leading theatre performance who took a prominent
role in the Pan African movement by Carolyn Gage

Maria Irene Fornes
playwright and playwriting teacher by Lorca Peress
Eva Le Gallienne
actor and artistic director by Glenda Frank
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
a lawyer for women's rights by Cindy Cooper
Zora Neale Hurston
writer and anthropologist of Black lives by Cheryl L. Davis
Marsha P. Johnson
LGBTQIA and Stonewall-uprising activist by Nicole Ansari
Yuri Kochiyama
civil rights activist by Christine Toy Johnson
Mabel Ping Hua Lee
suffragist by Lucy Wang
Barbara McClintock
scientist and Nobel prize winner by Judith Pratt


They wrote about remarkable women who deserve to be on a pedestal!
Pauli Murray
labor and civil rights organizer by Michael angel Johnson
Antonia Pantoja
educator and founder of the ASPIRA
youth leadership program by Janis Astor del Valle
Dorothy Parker
writer, poet and critic by Bev Thompson
Frances Perkins
Labor Secretary and New Deal architect by Deborah Savadge
Augusta Savage
sculptor who broke barriers by Renee’ Flemings
Clara Lemlich Shavelson
union leader and social justice fighter by Pauline David-Sax
Emma Stebbins
artist and sculptor of the Bethesda Fountain angel in New York's Central Park by Heather Jeanne Violanti
Maria Tallchief
Prima ballerina by Laura Shamas
Lillian Wald
Henry Street Settlement founder by Elisabeth Giffin Speckman
Edith Wharton
prize-winning author and designer by Martha Patterson
Mary Lou Williams
composer and pianist by Martine Sainvil
Women of Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
laborers and activists caught up in a devastating factory fire by Barbara Kahn
 


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