Honestly, I thought it was really weird to have women in this book who owned slaves, or were friendly with Nazis (Coco Chanel). I'm sure I've missed a few other weird ones. The slave owning women felt especially egregious because her chapter was followed by Phyllis Wheatley. I also found it a little weird that all the women were drawn the same way on the chapter headings with no skin tone difference. In a book for children, I found this potentially harmful, as it makes it harder for children to differentiate if race would have been a factor. Sexuality is also not discussed in the book at all (that I recall).