This inspiring, beautifully illustrated collection honors one hundred exceptional women throughout history and around the world. A Stylist Must-read Book of 2018. In this luminous volume, New York Times bestselling writer Julia Pierpont and artist Manjit Thapp match short, vibrant, and surprising biographies with stunning full-color portraits of secular female “saints”: champions of strength and progress.
These women broke ground, broke ceilings, and broke molds—including:

• Maya Angelou
• Jane Austen
• Ruby Bridges
• Rachel Carson
• Shirley Chisholm
• Marie Curie & Irène Joliot Curie
• Isadora Duncan
• Amelia Earhart
• Artemisia Gentileschi
• Grace Hopper
• Dolores Huerta
• Frida Kahlo
• Billie Jean King
• Audre Lorde
• Wilma Mankiller
• Toni Morrison
• Michelle Obama
• Sandra Day O’Connor
• Sally Ride
• Eleanor Roosevelt
• Margaret Sanger
• Sappho
• Nina Simone
• Gloria Steinem
• Kanno Sugako
• Harriet Tubman
• Mae West
• Virginia Woolf
• Malala Yousafzai