Amazing women: Madonna, Kahlo, Solanas

A co-editor of the Dictionary of Women's Biography picks her top 10 entries, and lets you click on the Dictionary entries. Three picks with her comments:
1. Madonna: "For liberating the brassiere. She is largely responsible for modern blatant bra-wearing. Back in the day, perhaps because we were supposed to have burnt them, we would have died of embarrassment if anyone caught a glimpse of so much as a strap. Bras as outerwear and also their straps have been out of the closet ever since Madonna got together with Jean Paul Gaultier et al."
2. Frida Kahlo: "For dedication to her art in spite of living a life of pain, and for her brutally honest self portraits which show her with a moustache, a beard and ferociously dark eyebrows that cross in the middle. An excellent role model for the hirsute."
6. Valerie Solanas: "For writing the SCUM Manifesto (now freely available on the web) and for being ahead of her time. Her wit and brilliance were not appreciated in her lifetime."
SCUM: Society for Cutting Up Men. I own a hard copy of the Manifesto. It makes amazing crazy sense, besides being hilarious. Solanas wanted to get rid of men altogether. Propagation in the women-only world would be by test-tube. There's a movie about her, I Shot Andy Warhol. Which she did, giving Andy a cute chest scar.