List of U.S. Counties Named After Women

List Of U.S. Counties Named After Women

This is a list of U.S. counties which are named for women. Items may be listed in more than one category.

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Famous quotes containing the words list of, list, named and/or women:

    “The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.”
    —Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841–1935)

    “Thirty—the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.”
    —F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)

    “I sometimes think I was born to live up to my name. How could I be anything else but what I am having been named Madonna? I would either have ended up a nun or this.”
    —Madonna [Madonna Louise Ciccione] (b. 1959)

    “Women have face-lifts in a society in which women without them appear to vanish from sight.”
    —Naomi Wolf (b. 1962)