Famous Women
- Barton County, Kansas: Barton is named for Clara Barton, the pioneering American nurse who organized the American Red Cross.
- Bremer County, Iowa: Bremer is named for Fredrika Bremer, a Swedish novelist.
Read more about this topic: List Of U.S. Counties Named After Women
Famous quotes containing the words famous and/or women:
“In a famous Middletown study of Muncie, Indiana, in 1924, mothers were asked to rank the qualities they most desire in their children. At the top of the list were conformity and strict obedience. More than fifty years later, when the Middletown survey was replicated, mothers placed autonomy and independence first. The healthiest parenting probably promotes a balance of these qualities in children.”
—Richard Louv (20th century)
“What we take for virtue is often but an assemblage of various ambitions and activities that chance, or our own astuteness, have arranged in a certain manner; and it is not always out of courage or purity that men are brave, and women chaste.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)