Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

W omen WE Love

- —Megan O’Neill Melle

We celebrate Women’s History Month with a nod to the inspiring, fearless and famous leading ladies who have helped change the world.

1. Lawyer and former tech exec Meena Harris (her aunt is Vice President Kamala Harris) founded the Phenomenal Woman Action Campaign (a reference to a Maya Angelou poem), which makes statement T-shirts like the Phenomenal

Mother Tee (seen on Jane Fonda, Connie Britton, Padma Lakshmi and others). Proceeds benefit Families Belong Together, a nonprofit working to end family separation at the U.S.-Mexico border. $35, phenomenal­woman.us

2. Dolly Parton isn’t just an iconic singer-songwriter and pandemic hero (whose $1 million donation helped researcher­s develop a vaccine). She’s also a greeting card maker—her Dolly Parton Greeting Cards Collection from American Greetings includes 20 designs. $7 for three, walmart.com

3. “Find something you’re passionate about and keep tremendous­ly interested in it,” said the queen of French cuisine, Julia Child, who graces a marvelous laminated

Hand-Painted Bookmark from Sentimenta­l Favorite. $4.50, etsy.com 4. Build your own Feminist

Women Bookend Set featuring illustrati­ons of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Michelle Obama, Maya Angelou, Gloria Steinem and Kamala Harris. $44 for two, getarchd.com

5. If “neverthele­ss, they persisted” describes your game nights, then grab the Heroic Women Museum Puzzle, a 1,000-piece eye bender of a jigsaw with wellknown figures like Joan of Arc and Malala Yousafzai. $18, uncommongo­ods.com 6. Available on a sticker, mug, tote or art print, the Rainbow

Inaugurati­on Illustrati­on by small-business artist and mom Jennifer Vallez stars Jennifer Lopez, Lady Gaga, National Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman, first lady Jill Biden, VP Kamala Harris and former first lady Michelle Obama. $5–$24, jenniferva­llez.com 7. Through the stories of several longtime flight attendants, author Julia Cooke looks at the gritty and glamorous Mad Men–era glory days of air travel in Come Fly the World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am ( Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) $28, amazon.com 8. From Silk Road Bazaar, Handmade Felt Ornaments (crafted by artisans in Central Asia) like the Suffragett­e and Super Nurse honor the memorable women—past and present—in our lives. $24, etsy.com 9. In When Women Invented Television (March 23, Harper), Jennifer Keishin Armstrong tells of four pioneering women (including a young Betty White) who shaped the early days of TV and the money, politics and sexism that stole the reins. $28, bookshop.org

10. RBG and Greta Thunberg are just two Ceramic Mug muses for Feminist Doodles, an Amherst, Mass., company that merges playful cartoons with important issues for kids and grown-ups alike. $19 each, feministdo­odles.com

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