Ruth Elizabeth "Bette" Davis (Apr 5, 1908 – Oct 6, 1989) was an American actress of film, television and theater.

Noted for her willingness to play unsympathetic characters, she was highly regarded for her performances in a range of film genres.

Dame Jane Morris Goodall, DBE (born Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall on 3 April 1934), is a British primatologist, ethologist, anthropologist, and UN Messenger of Peace.

Considered to be the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees, Goodall is best known for her 45-year study of social and family interactions of wild chimpanzees in Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania. 

I have spent a lifetime not fitting in (more on that: Here's To Being A Crazy One. A Misfit. A Rebel. And A Square Peg In A Round Hole.)

I live in a space many would not dare to go. And I am much less "out there" than others.

I look around me I see women rebels and adventurers, changemakers and hellraisers.

There's something new and very cool at TED 2014 (in addition to the multitude of other new and cool things TED always comes up with!).

This year, a select group of previous speakers are back in "All Star" sessions to update the TED community. (TEDStars?)

One third of the speakers on the TED 2014 main stage will be women. An additional 16 will participate in the "All Star" sessions, which again represents about one third of the sessions' speakers.

I believe stages everywhere (including those at TED and TEDx conferences) should reflect the ratio of women to men in the world's population (i.e. about 50:50).