Give me a good biography. Anytime, any format. I will devour a book in one sitting. One of my most favourite subjects is famous women. Last Sunday I was at the pool talking with my friend Elzabeth and I was thrilled to banter back and forth with her the names of a certain genre; Slim Keith, Babe Paley, Lee Radziwell, Bunny Mellon, and of course Jackie. There are so many others! Jacqueline Susann, Catherine de Medici, Frida Kahlo, Grace Kelly, Lady Caroline Blackwood, Peggy Guggenheim, Libby Holman, Leni Riefenstahl, Hillary, Joan, Diana...the list is endless.
Of course one has to have a #1 choice. For me it is an extraordinary woman: Senora Maria Eva Duarte de Peron. Forget the Andrew Llloyd Webber crap. I've got this chick down pat. I think I have read everyting about her. It goes without saying that I probably revere her. I find her to be one of the most magnetic, complex, powerful, and of course iconic women of the twentieth century.
She had a way with words: " Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it." "If I have to apply five turns to the screw each day for the happiness of Argentina, I will do it." "In government, one actress is enough." and my favourite: "There are some oligarchs that make me want to bite them just as one crunches into a carrot or a radish."
(P.S. If you like the Cartier necklace I know where you can find it)
