Welcome to the simple Sophisticate Podcast, where intelligent living is paired with signature style.

I'm your host, Shannon Ables.

And whether you're listening on your commute, exercising, working in the garden, or sitting down with a hot cup of tea or a

cafe ole, thank you for tuning in. Let's get started. Welcome to the 72nd episode of the Simple Sophisticate. I hope the holidays are off to a

wonderful start for you and I am excited to finish 2015 strong.

How about you?

Speaking of strength, that is what we're going to talk about today.

Today's episode is all about what it means to be a strong woman.

Let me just begin by sharing a few women that are on a long and continually growing list.

Alice Paul.

Oprah Winfrey

Echle Merkel.

Margaret Thatcher, Condoleezza Rice, Elizabeth Warren, Gloria Steinem, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

All of these women, and there's so many more, and the list could go on and on but so many people

would describe each of these women as strong and it was recently that in an article

in the Sunday New York Times style section that it focused on the Sunday New York Times style section that it focused on two

of these aforementioned women Gloria Steinem and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Now to describe how this article was set up, nearly every week

there is a column that's called Table for Three because there's always two people that are well respected in their

particular field have been very successful and somehow their their fields

while not identical, somehow intertwined.

But then the third part is the journalist, Philip Galanis.

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