And as an African-American woman, she would be a ground-breaking choice to lead an agency that has only been led by white men over the course of its 80-year history.
As she accepted the Intellectual Property Owner's Association 's 27th Annual Inventor of the Year award on June 28 for her work in tissue engineering--she is the first individual woman to win the award--her Donna Reed-style hair and her concerned expression made her look like a doctor about to apply a Band-Aid.
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Her lectures at New York University, where she was a professor in the classics department, were virtual one-woman shows as she sought to convey to her students her enthusiasm for Greece.
And in this film, she's playing this woman who is just - she's really just beaten down, and she just wants to, you know, save her son, to do the best for him.
She is a 40-year old woman in a marriage that by all appearances was happy until she gave into a ridiculous impulse, and she was supposedly a respected military intelligence officer.
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"She's so experienced in the government, she's extremely intelligent, she's a woman and she's African-American, " said iReporter Kathi Cordsen from Fullerton, California.
She had no notable experience in international affairs or public diplomacy to speak of before Livni - who insisted that she would only appoint a woman to the post - sent her to Turtle Bay.
She's a one-woman PR machine for Pigeon Forge, and through "Dollywood" is Sevier County's biggest employer.
She was a bone-thin woman with a pretty face, dark eyes, and brown hair that hung down her back.
She is an experienced yachts-woman, having raced with Tracey Edwards on her Jules Verne attempt in 1997 aboard Royal Sun Alliance.
Labour described Ms Champion as a "clean break" candidate following the scandal surrounding Mr MacShane, and she becomes the first-ever woman MP for the seat.
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It's really an example of how she is trying to set herself up as a national leader, and, for example, she's also, on this same trip, going to the Israeli Knesset to give a speech, and she is the highest-ranking woman American official ever to speak to the Israeli Parliament.
Bessie Smith's version of St Louis Blues was even filmed in a kind of predecessor of today's music videos - she acts out the part of a woman knocked to the ground by a two-timing boyfriend, and then moves to a bar to sing the blues.
Of course Diller was not the first woman to do stand-up, but she was perhaps the first solo woman to successfully break into that male bastion and become a household name.
In flashbacks to Hong Kong, cued by security-camera footage, we can see her smiling happily as, after the restaurant dinner, she spends a pleasant, slightly drunken evening in a glittering casino, during which this ordinary, messing-around woman infects virtually everyone she comes into contact with.
Given this scenario, every single one of us -- except the poor young woman herself -- would recognize that she is not herself, that something is very wrong, that she has an illness.
The curator of the conference and the winner of the TED Prize - this woman, she got her wish granted, literally.
When she married Richard Rainwater, one of the country's top investors, she was already the highest-paid woman in banking.
Officers in the helicopter used a thermal imaging camera to spot the 51-year-old woman after she slipped off the footpath.
"I was like, 'That cannot be possible, ' " the 27-year-old Washington woman said of the moment she saw that staggering monthly statement from T-Mobile.
When she won Cynon Valley for Labour in the 1984 by-election she became only Wales's fourth woman MP and the first for a Valleys seat.
You know, I thought she was gonna be this cold, calculating, stuck-up woman, and I was just surprised to see that she really is just like me and you.
Though the European Union placed her under sanctions shortly after that article, the story presented Asma al-Assad as she had worked to be perceived -- as an exceptionally modern woman in the Arab world, Tabler and other experts have said.
She got started with the skeleton as a high-school student in Colorado when she challenged a young woman to a footrace at a rec center.
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Then, in some trick of the light, or because she sagged her chin into her wrinkling neck, or her too short trousers rode up above her ankle socks as she was sitting cross-legged, Ally saw for a moment the old woman she would become, vulnerable and stubborn, cut adrift.
And he also watched as that woman was passed over for promotions simply because she was a woman, but he also saw how she kept getting up -- kept getting up year after year, without complaint or regret.
And he watched as she was passed over for promotions simply because she was a woman, but he also saw how she kept getting up -- kept getting up every day, doing that same job year after year without complaint and without regret.
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"These defendants, two morally depraved individuals, preyed on a physically and mentally ill 101-year-old woman to steal millions of dollars -- dollars that she had intended to go to help the lives of ordinary New Yorkers, " Seidemann said, echoing his closing argument to the jury.
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