Under one picture she wrote: "While machines are making great progress in automobile factories, the workers might be under-paid.

VOA: special.2009.05.10

But she wrote that women's roles decreased over time as the Cherokee people accepted the values of the larger American culture.

VOA: special.2010.04.09

The reports she wrote led to legal cases that continued all the way to the Supreme Court of the United States.

VOA: special.2010.04.25

with her mother and brother. Safia says she wrote her first poem for a high school English class three years ago.

VOA: special.2009.04.17

She wrote "I Must Be Saved" to honor the folk singer Odetta whom Peyroux calls her spiritual grandmother.

VOA: special.2009.07.10

To show that she could do more than just write stories, she wrote a book with Ogden Codman, "The Decoration of Houses."

VOA: special.2010.10.24

She was twenty-four when she wrote "The Secret of the Old Clock" and other early Nancy Drew books.

VOA: special.2009.08.24

She wrote a book about Barbie. She points out dolls like scientist Barbie and race car driver Barbie.

VOA: special.2009.04.06

She wrote a book, published in nineteen ninety-nine, called "Leave None to Tell the Story: Genocide in Rwanda."

VOA: special.2009.03.09

She wrote about how she battled her own insecurities to move from a traditional job as homemaker to a position of power.

VOA: special.2009.04.26

She never forgot these days. Later in life, she wrote: "No deaf child can ever forget the excitement of his first word.

VOA: special.2009.11.08

And,in a letter, she wrote that she was beginning to feel that the German Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler was a very great man.

VOA: special.2009.06.28

She wrote that,as a child, she expected all white people to be as kind as they were.

VOA: special.2009.10.04

She wrote about their flight in a single-engine airplane over Canada and Alaska to Japan and China.

VOA: special.2009.06.28

She lived quietly. Yet she wrote that life passes quickly and should be lived to the fullest.

VOA: special.2010.07.18

She wrote comments for pictures published in Vogue, a magazine for women about clothes and fashion.

VOA: special.2010.08.08

This is what she wrote about landing in northern Canada and jumping out of the plane.

VOA: special.2009.06.28

The people she wrote about in her books are very similar to people she knew there.

VOA: special.2009.02.22

She wrote seven books and more than one hundred short stories, plays and articles for magazines.

VOA: special.2009.02.22

She took the title for the book she wrote about her life, published in nineteen ninety-two.

VOA: special.2009.10.04

She wrote down all the details of her dream and developed it into a full story.

VOA: special.2010.01.20