A brave artist, she had the strength to transform suffering into art. Each one of her works is a cry of pride and hope towards life. Frida Kahlo is still today considered one of the most important Mexican painters, a revolutionary and a great experimenter. She was only eighteen when she had a very serious...
Just a month ago she turned 95, her first birthday after eighty years, without the wishes of her beloved husband, Prince Philip married her in 1947. A birthday without celebrations or official portraits. The saddest for the timeless queen, she – vital as few in the world, a silent but ever-present presence – has reached...
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s beloved sister was as talented as he was. However, Maria Anna Mozart soon had to abandon music because she was a woman. Her destiny was to be a wife and not a musician, and so it was that music lessons were replaced by sewing lessons so as to help find a husband....
Valentina Tereškova was twenty-six when in 1963 she accomplished one of the greatest feats ever accomplished by a woman in the 1960s: travelling in space and (re) writing history. Valentina was born in a village about 270 km from Moscow, she was two years old when she was left an orphan by the death of her...
Children more than adults, every day, can make a difference when it comes to the environment, racism, good practices. Greta Thunberg is the clear and striking example, that by actively engaging in something, things can be done. Greta, from an early age, has been committed to saving the planet. She turned 18 on January 3,...
The founder of Feminist Press, Florence Howe, passed away last September at the age of 91. She will be remembered as the mother of women’s studies and the undisputed star of the feminist movement. Florence Howe, historian and writer, began teaching in American universities in the 1950s, when studies on women were still in their...
Revolutionary and legendary figure, Grace O’Malley will remain in Irish history as the woman who did not bow even in the presence of Queen Elizabeth I. A combative and rebellious pirate made room for herself in a male chauvinist world, where women had no space. She spent her life sailing the seas, plundering passing ships...
Deceased less than a month ago, Ruth Bader Ginsburg was the best known (and oldest) US Supreme Court Justice of all time. She has distinguished herself over the years for her battles on equal rights between men and women and in the fight against discrimination. Her passing left a great void in the Supreme Court...
A great little woman, committed throughout her life to transmit values and ideas with commitment and passion. A woman who has always fascinated with her innate elegance and tenacity and who enchanted with her intelligence and wit. Rita Levi Montalcini is still the only Italian woman to have received the Nobel Prize for Medicine and...
Margaret Thatcher marked the history of her country for her extraordinary political flair, she restored to her fellow citizens the pride of belonging to a nation, Great Britain, which seemed to be destined to descending in the sunset. She was one of the greatest stateswomen of the 1900s after Churchill. She fought against statism, finding in private...
