Still I Rise
The Persistence of Phenomenal Women (Easter gift for teens)
• Feminism is having a major cultural moment and stories of strong women are perfectly timed to ride the zeitgeist
• A movie based on Maya Angelou, “Still I Rise” hits theaters winter 2017; her poem opens the book and a new women-centric poem ends the book.
• Features empowering quotes from strong women and those who refused to be kept down.
• Author Marlene Wegman-Gellar, a teacher and journalist has been featured in many media outlets and she has large network and mailing list of over 22k.
• Women celebrated in the book include Madame C. J. Walker-first female American millionaire, Aung San Suu Kyi-Burma’s first lady of freedom, Betty Shabazz-civil rights activist, Nellie Sachs-Holocaust survivor and Nobel Prize recipient, Selma Lagerlof-first woman Nobel Laureate, Fannie Lou Hamer-American voting rights activist, Bessie Coleman-first African-American female pilot, Wilma Randolph-first woman to win three gold medals, Sonia Sotomayor-first Hispanic Supreme Court justice, Wangari Maathai-Nobel Prize winner, Winnifred Mandela-freedom fighter, , Lois Wilson-founder of Al-Anon, Roxanne Quimby-co-founder of Burt’s Bees
