1. The ages of the individuals who gave quotes for the “How Will You Rock” sections of this book reflect the age of the person at the time the quote was given.
2. Tuyet A. Tran and Chu V. Nguyen, Accessed May 10, 2011. “Trung Trac & Trung Nhi,” Viettouch.com: http://www.viettouch.com/trungsis/.
3. The information presented in all Rock On spotlights was gathered from public sources.
4. Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, A Sor Juana Anthology, trans. Alan S. Trueblood (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1988), 178.
5. Elisabeth Vigée-Le Brun, The Memoirs of Elisabeth Vigée-Le Brun, trans. Siân Evans (Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1989), 11.
6. Vigée-Le Brun, 32.
7. Vigée-Le Brun, 2.
8. M. W. Taylor, Harriet Tubman: Antislavery Activist (New York and Philadelphia: Chelsea House, 1991), 37.
9. Anne Macdonald, Feminine Ingenuity: Women and Invention in America (New York: Ballantine, 1992), 51.
10. Giraud Chester, Embattled Maiden: The Life of Anna Dickinson (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1951), 93–94.
11. Emma Lazarus, Poems of Emma Lazarus (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1899), 202–3.
12. Helen Keller, The Story of My Life, ed. John Albert Macy (New York: Doubleday, 1954), 21–22.
13. James Farmer, Eleanor Roosevelt (PBS, Portland, OR: 1999).
14. A. H. Wood and Elizabeth Wood Ellem, “Queen Salote Tupou III,” in Friendly Islands: A History of Tonga, ed. Noel Rutherford (Melbourne, Australia: Oxford University Press, 1977), 209.
15. Andre Breton, “Frida Kahlo de Rivera,” in Frida Kahlo and Tina Modotti, ed. Mark Francis (London: Whitechapel Art Gallery, 1982), 36.
16. Breton, 37.
17. Marguerite Holloway, “Mary Leakey: Unearthing History,” Scientific American (October 1994): http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=mary-leakey-unearthing-hi&page=2.
18. Mary Leakey, Disclosing the Past (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1984), 193.
19. Babe Didrikson Zaharias, This Life I’ve Led: My Autobiography (New York: A. S. Barnes, 1955), 88–89.
20. Zaharias, 27, 76.
21. Indira Gandhi, Letters to an American Friend: 1950–1984, ed. Dorothy Norman (San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1985), 178–79.
22. Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition, ed. Otto Frank and Mirjam Pressler, trans. Susan Massotty (New York: Doubleday, 1995), 1.
23. Frank, 281.
24. Tom Biracree, Wilma Rudolph, Women of Achievement Series (New York: Chelsea House, 1988), 107.
25. Bruce Myles, Night Witches: The Untold Story of Soviet Women in Combat (Novato, California: Presidio, 1981), 6.
26. Harold Stockton, Dariusz Tyminski, and Christer Bergström, “Marina Raskova and Soviet Female Pilots,” WWII Ace Stories (9 December 1998): http://www.elknet.pl/acestory/raskov/raskov.htm.
27. Stockton.
28. Myles, 145.
29. The World Bank Group, “Gender Stats, Middle East and North Africa,” 2011, http://stats.uis.unesco.org/unesco/TableViewer/document.aspx?ReportId=124&IF_Language=eng&BR_Country=8850&BR_Region=40525
30. Diana Greenwald, “Gender, Development and Governance in Yemen, 20 Years On,” Middle East Youth Initiative (17 June 2010): http://www.shababinclusion.org/content/blog/detail/1615/.
31. Bob Italia, Maya Lin: Honoring Our Forgotten Heroes (Minneapolis: Abdo & Daughters, 1993), 7–9.
32. Hal Leonard Corporation, 21st Century Violinists (San Rafael, CA: String Letter Publishing, 1999), 55.
33. CNN Entertainment, “Midori Goto: From Prodigy to Peace Ambassador” (3 November 2008): http://articles.cnn.com/2008-11-03/entertainment/ta.midori_1_prodigy-musical-education-juilliard-school?_s=PM:SHOWBIZ.
34. Tim Page, “Unpretentious Prodigy Puzzled by All the Fuss,” New York Times (29 July 1986): sec. c, p. 11.
35. Joe Neumaier, “Natalie Portman Is Finally Shedding Her ‘Wise Old Teen’ Image,” Daily News (25 July 2004): http://articles.nydailynews.com/2004-07-25/entertainment/18273438_1_child-actor-stage-door-manor-characters/3.