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)
“I introduced her to Elena, and in that life-quickening atmosphere of a big railway station where everything is something trembling on the brink of something else, thus to be clutched and cherished, the exchange of a few words was enough to enable two totally dissimilar women to start calling each other by their pet names the very next time they met.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)