From my Heroine (with a capital “H”): LIFE magazine photographer Margaret Bourke-White.
Mrs. Shizue Kato, Japan’s leading feminists, birth control expert & disciple of her friend Margaret Sanger, holding a model of female sex organs, as she demonstrates how to insert a pessary to a group of women during birth control class.
“Three of the nominated films this year have 26 men and one woman [in featured roles] — ‘Slumdog [Millionaire]‘ and ‘Milk,’ and ‘Frost/Nixon.’ You know, we accept it. It’s not unusual. But we would go nuts if three of the nominated films had 26 women and one man. It would be a very, very unusual thing.
“We’re still not telling everybody’s story in our country and that’s where we are,” she said.
