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By the time I reached high school my father's grocery store had made our life adequately comfortable and I was able to choose, without any practical encumbrances, the subjects that I wanted to pursue in college.
The woman poet must be either a sexless, reclusive eccentric, with nothing to say specifically to women, or a brilliant, tragic, tortured suicide.
Benjamin Carson, Scientist (1951) |
Pete Cashmore, Businessman (1985) |
Debbi Fields, Businesswoman (1956) |
June Foray, Actress (1917) |
James Gandolfini, Actor (1961) |
Greta Garbo, Actress (1905) |
Samuel Johnson, Author (1709) |
Alexander Bain, Philosopher (1903) |
Leonhard Euler, Mathematician (1783) |
Dag Hammarskjold, Diplomat (1961) |
Gwen John, Artist (1939) |
Corita Kent, Artist (1986) |
John Langdon, Politician (1819) |
Robert N. Lee, Writer (1964) |