But she had never met a musician she felt fully shared her musical point of view until she met Matt Ward.

VOA: special.2010.05.07

Krall says she was influenced to make this album because of a trip she made to Brazil last year.

VOA: special.2009.04.24

After she graduated, a friend suggested she try to establish the first public school in the state of New Jersey.

VOA: special.2009.07.26

She did for a little while. Then she put her shoes back on and put her old stockings into her bag.

VOA: special.2009.09.05

A few days before she left, she gave a small American flag to her friend Jacqueline Cochran, another female pilot.

VOA: special.2010.05.26

Jeannette Cook says she attends four or five jewelry shows a year where she teaches workshops and sells her products.

VOA: special.2009.05.18

She changed her area of study from English to science after she took a biology course that she liked.

VOA: special.2010.03.14

His real name was Theodore. And if there was ever a problem she could not handle, her husband put things right.

VOA: special.2009.05.04

In nineteen eighteen, Madam Walker finally settled in a town near New York City where she built a large, beautiful house.

VOA: special.2010.03.28

For a day or two she walked around in a dreamy state as she thought about her choices.

VOA: special.2009.09.05

Because she was a woman, she could not study at the French Academy of Fine Arts in Paris.

VOA: special.2009.07.12

But by the end of the movie, she has a chance to let her acting skills shine and she becomes a star.

VOA: special.2009.09.20

She was a successful teacher, but the work,she decided, was too difficult for the amount she was paid.

VOA: special.2010.04.25

She was a milkmaid. She had to get up very early every morning and go to the barn to milk the cow.

VOA: special.2010.11.20