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
