In the past, the magazine has named a Woman of the Year, honouring a Canadian woman for her achievements in the previous year. Honorees have included Prime Minister Kim Campbell, athlete Chantal Petitclerc, pop singer k.d. lang and Jane Doe, a Toronto woman who waged a successful court battle against the Toronto Police Service after alleging that in 1986 the police force had failed to issue warnings about the Balcony Rapist, who subsequently raped her. One of lang's most famous songs, "Miss Chatelaine", is about her selection as the magazine's Woman of the Year.
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Famous quotes containing the words woman of, woman and/or year:
“Joy, the, ‘well . . . joyfulness of
joy’M’many years
I had not known it,’ the woman of eighty
said, ‘only remembered, till now.’”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)
“A woman with her two children was captured on the steps of the capitol building, whither she had fled for protection, and this, too, while the stars and stripes floated over it.”
—Jane Grey Swisshelm (1815–1884)
“Never read any book that is not a year old.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)