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There are some truly inspiring images of women’s history in our Digital Collections. Check out a few of our favorites.

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Chelsea. Springtime in New York City… (at Chelsea, Manhattan)

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Zaha Hadid, architect extraordinaire, dies age 65.

She was the first woman to receive the Royal Institute of British Architects gold medal. “She was in a world of her own and she was extraordinary,” said leading architect Graham Morrison.

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Hear Fresh Air’s 2004 interview with the renowned architect.

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“Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.” - Nora Ephron

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The new documentary Everything Is Copy — about the late writer, director and journalist Nora Ephron — was written and directed by her son, Jacob Bernstein. The documentary, which debuted on HBO in March, shares the story of Ephron’s life. The film’s title comes from an Ephron family saying — “everything is copy,” meaning that anything and everything that happens to you is fair game to write about.

In Jacob Bernstein’s interview with Terry Gross he speaks of his mother’s death, and how the film wasn’t about closure:

“I think that doing the movie in a certain way, rather than being closure, was continuance. It was getting to stay with her in some way, from looking at her on a monitor, and reading her old essays, and reading Heartburn again … there was her voice, loud and clear.”

In ‘Everything Is Copy,’ Nora Ephron’s Son Tries Her Philosophy