Even after stepping down as a world leader this woman stayed in Parliament and later moved on to the House of Lords

In 1978 she co-hosted People Are Talking in Baltimore but we bet she's the only host who became a multibillionaire

An assistant attorney general in Arizona in 1965 she got a nifty promotion in 1981: Supreme Court justice

Ooh la la! The little black dress first got put on--& put out--by this designer in the 1920s

Her fight against gorilla poachers intensified in 1978 after the killing of Digit one of her favorite animals

Ann Bancroft (not the actress) became the first woman to reach this spot by sled & on foot

This etiquette expert also wrote the 1905 novel Purple and Fine Linen

With husband H.A. Margret Rey fled the Nazis carrying the manuscript for their story about this impish monkey

This ex-Secretary of State wrote Extraordinary Ordinary People about growing up in Birmingham Alabama

She painted herself wearing a necklace of thorns symbolizing the pain in her life