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Gynecology Final
During one of his final exams, Richard Gordon (famed for his series of "Doctor" ...
Bait And Switch?
One day Alexandre Dumas and a few of his friends found themselves discussing the...
Zsa Zsa Gabor: First Thing
A women's magazine once asked a number of famous women: "What is the first thing...
Howe Unfortunate
After trouncing George Washington's depleted forces at White
Plains, Fort Washi...
Niece vs Nurse
As he lay dying, Henry Arthur Jones was asked whether he would prefer his niece ...
Blind Justice
During court one day, Judge Claudia Jordan quietly passed her clerk a note: "Bli...
Battle of the Sexes
"Much of this talk about feminism is nonsense," Beatrice Webb was told one day. ...
Too Much Information
In January 2001, Andrew Lloyd Webber's second wife, the singer Sarah Brightman, ...
Jenna Jameson
Despite her role as an international porn star, Jenna Jameson was hardly the blo...
Discriminating Taste
Thomas Beecham was once asked whether it was true that he preferred not to have ...
Herb Brooks: Amex Card
An American Express card belonging to the wife of legendary "Miracle on Ice" hoc...
Kingsale
As the Victorian representative of a long line of Irish peers (the premier baron...
Yapper
"Hubert Humphrey talks so fast," Barry Goldwater once remarked, "that listening ...
Sex Show
While shooting a film in Japan one year, Joan Collins went out on a date with a ...
Jay Mohr: Zit-Popper, MD
Jay Mohr once recalled a girlfriend who made a hobby of popping zits on his back...
Nellie McClung (long)
"I remember one day when I was leaving for a ten-day lecture tour," the famous f...
Appeal to Vanity
"A traffic problem existed in the narrow, twisted streets of Paris even in the p...
Omar Sharif: Lady-Killer
Omar Sharif was famed for his womanizing ways. "Tell me, Mr. Sharif," a journali...
Model Citizen?
On his eighty-ninth birthday, the French conductor Pierre Monteux was interviewe...
Mary Kay
While working with Stanley Home Products early in her sales career, Mary Kay won...
Real Women
"Betsy Johnson was applauded for designing clothes for 'real women, cellulite an...
Battle of the Sexes
In September 1973, Bobby Riggs (once the world's top-ranked tennis player) chall...
Cosmo Woman
"This year's runner-up in the Cosmopolitan New Journalist of the Year com...
Jennifer Connelly: The Grea...
Early on, Jennifer Connelly - who met one boyfriend (the photographer David Duga...
Phony Excuse?
Dorothy Parker was among a group of celebrated wits who regularly congregated at...
The Change
On March 28, 2001, Jeanie Linders' new musical premiered in Orlando, Florida. "T...
Timeless Question
"A man whom we had never seen before was wished on us for luncheon one day... He...
Laborious Decision?
Shortly after FDR had named Frances Perkins as his secretary of labor (the first...
Smart Girl
"One of Mary Livermore's favorite stories was about the time she and five other ...
She Who Must Be Obeyed?
One day King George V and Queen Mary visited George Cadbury's chocolate factory....
Dave Barry & the Dark Blobs
Dave Barry and his wife were once invited to attend the Hollywood premiere of a ...
Cheeky Fans
After unveiling a model of Brad Pitt in 1999, staffers at Madame Tussaud's (the ...
Wanda Baucus: War of the Ro...
"I stand by her 110 percent and she has my full support," Montana State Senator ...
Jackie Kallen: Colorful Cha...
"I played Jackie Kallen [in Charles Dutton's Against the Ropes (2004)]," ...
Carol Moseley Braun: Patent...
In 2004, former presidential candidate Carol Moseley Braun was asked whether she...
Barbara Bush: President's S...
Former First Lady Barbara Bush once delivered a commencement address at Wellesle...
Herbert Haupt: Deaf & Dumb
During a Parliamentary debate in November 2004, Austrian MP Herbert Haupt compla...
Vagina Monologue
In order to promote a celebrity-studded rally to combat violence against women a...
Uma Straight Up?
Uma Thurman was once interviewed by Jane Magazine's Katy McColl. "You kno...
Baker Street Irregular?
Mystery writer Rex Stout, an ardent fan of Arthur Conan Doyle and his legendary ...
Blood Lust
One day at the height of the Monica Lewinsky scandal, House Majority Leader Dick...
Sheen of Desire?
Charlie Sheen was once asked whether he had a girlfriend. "I had a girlfriend," ...
1670 Marriage Act
In 1670, the British Parliament under Charles II passed the following remarkable...
Berthe Morisot: What a Shame
Though Berthe Morisot and her sister Edma were both exceptionally gifted painter...
Claire's Badge of Honor?
In order to promote a celebrity-studded rally to combat violence against women a...
Augusta Stowe Gullen
After graduating from Victoria College (in Cobourg, Ontario) in 1883, Augusta St...
Escort
When a meeting of the Anti-Slavery Society in New York was broken up by thugs (w...
Apostle Paul
Famed feminist Elizabeth Cady Stanton was once reproached by a married clergyman...
Dime a Dozen
John Steinbeck once found himself talking with a pompous young man on the subjec...
Girdle Golfer
Famed Olympian and golfer Babe Didrikson Zaharias was once asked how she managed...
Southern Methodist?
Greer Garson's multi-million-dollar donatation to endow Southern Methodist Unive...
Prisoner of Ahlden
When the Elector of Hanover became England's George I in 1714, his wife did not ...
Fairweather Friends
In 1803, Mme de Stael published her feminist novel Delphine, in which she...
"Beast" Butler
While serving as commander of the Union forces occupying New Orleans in 1862, Be...
Unisex
For Donna Karan, fashion design became much simpler at the turn of the millenniu...
Lady Doctor (long)
Nineteenth Century conventional wisdom held that intimate knowledge of anatomy a...
Men
Sacha Guitry once held an exhibition of his large collection of artworks. "A spl...
Veiled Insult
While visiting India in 1921, French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau was shown...
Hilbert & Noether
Because she was a woman, the gifted mathematician Emmy Noether found her career ...
Siegfried and Roy: On Women...
"Women and tigers are exactly alike," Roy Horn (of Siegfried and Roy) once remar...
George W. Bush: Definitely ...
"George Bush has marked International Women's Week - by paying tribute to a man,...
Francis Bellamy: Pledge of ...
In August 1892, a magazine called The Youth's Companion commissioned edit...
Willie Nelson & Ray Price
"A wise man, Ray Price, told me recently that there's one thing he's learned in ...
Queen Isabella: Chess Femin...
"Chess was invented in India in the fifth century and was spread by Islamic conq...
Loretta Lynn: Old Question?
During an interview one day, Loretta Lynn was asked to reveal her age. "Between ...
Maria Manakova: Sweet Surre...
Serbian chess grandmaster Maria Manakova fell in love with her ex-husband, Yugos...
Laura Ingalls Wilder: Fiesty
Little House on the Prairie author Laura Ingalls Wilder was a fiercely in...
Jessica Biel: Girls' Night Out
"I was in New York this one time," Jessica Biel once recalled. "I was still on m...
Rita Rudner: White Car
Rita Rudner ("I only like cars because they take me to clothes") was once asked ...
Rita Rudner: White Car
Rita Rudner ("I only like cars because they take me to clothes") was once asked ...
Superior Sex
Nancy Astor devoted much of her career to the battle for women's rights. While s...
Margaret Sanger
In 1917, Margaret Sanger founded her first birth-control clinic. The result? She...
Lamotta's Nose
"[Jake Lamotta's] nose is remarkable. It looks like a mine shaft that hsa collap...
Shajar-al-Durr
When the Egyptian Sultan died during the siege of Cairo, his wife, Shajar-al-Dur...
Burton's Wife
Isabel Arundell, who had long hoped to marry Richard Burton, was naturally overj...
Woman Senator
In 1922, eighty-seven-year-old Georgia Democrat Rebecca Latimer Selton became th...
Slob
Following the success of Pulp Fiction, Quentin Tarantino went to Europe, ...
Kate Beckinsale: Partnerships
"If someone had told me years ago that sharing a sense of humor was so vital to ...
Miss Nasty USA
Kelly Hu started her career as a beauty pageant contestant. "Women will do anyth...
Cheryl Miller
"She got game," Stuff magazine once said of former WNBA star Cheryl Mille...
Amy Alcott: Top Female Jewi...
One day the golfer Amy Alcott told a writer friend that she had just been named ...
After heading the goal which b
After heading the goal which brought a 1-0 victory for Portugal against Holland ...
Tucking In?
Sophie Tucker was once asked about her frugal ways. "From birth to 18 a girl nee...
Kibbutzer?
Duran Duran's Simon Le Bon was once asked about his musical influences. Patti Sm...
Inspector-General
Dr. James Barry became a general in the army of Queen Victoria. Barry entered th...
Big Bouquet
"A woman horsewhipped her husband's mistress and then refused to talk to reporte...
Women's Rights
"The Queen is most anxious to enlist every one who can speak or write to join in...
Common Complaint?
"Stars attract a certain kind of fuckingficial woman," Hugh Grant once remarked....
Susan B. Anthony & the New ...
The famous suffragette Susan B. Anthony once asked Horace Greeley (publisher of ...
Georgia O’Keeffe: Wedding Vows
Though he had once staged a show of her art without her permission (and accident...
Clara Barton: Clara & the C...
One day during the Civil War, Clara Barton visited the office of a colonel in th...
Treatyse of Fysshynge
The first fishing book ever printed in the English language, "A Treatyse of Fyss...
Surprise Symphony
While composing his so-called "Surprise Symphony" (the 94th), Haydn relished the...
'Twixt and Twain
"In a world without women," Mark Twain was once asked, "what would men become?" ...
Sherry Lansing & the Woman'...
In 1980, Sherry Lansing became the first woman in history to run a major studio ...
Gellhorn & Hemingway
"Hemingway pulled a fast one on his wife [Martha Gellhorn] when he offered to co...
Ford Frick
In 1952, a female baseball player named Eleanor Engle was signed to play for the...
Cindy Crawford: Playboy Fem...
"When I did Playboy," Cindy Crawford once recalled, "I got letters from w...
Bonfire of the Vanities
One day Cardinal Mazarin was informed that a violent disagreement had broken out...
Self-Starter
Few automotive inventions are more celebrated by women than by the opposite sex....
Corset
While visiting Constantinople, Lady Montagu lost no opportunity telling Turkish ...
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