Discover the foundation of reading that empowered some of the world's most influential women in this collection of 20 biographies.

Cleopatra (69 BC-30 BC) -- Wu Zetian (624-705) -- Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603) -- Sor (Sister) Juana Inés de la Cruz (1651-1695) -- Phillis Wheatley Peters (1753-1784) -- E. Pauline Johnson (1861-1913) -- Chien-Shiung Wu (1912-1997) -- Indira Gandhi (1917-1984) -- Shirley Chisholm (1924-2005) -- Patsy Mink (1927-2002) -- Audre Lorde (1934-1992) -- Temple Grandin (1947- ) -- Sally Ride (1951-2012) -- Oprah Winfrey (1954- ) -- Sonia Sotomayor (1954- ) -- Serena Williams (1981- ) -- Taylor Swift (1989- ) -- Malala Yousafzai (1997- ) -- Amanda Gorman (1998- ) -- Marley Dias (2005- ).