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On the International Day of the Girl we're honoring the most inspiring of girls – Malala Yousafzai and her quest to empower girls through education.

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Literati, is launching virtual book clubs curated by celebrities including Malala Yousafzai, Steph Curry, Richard Branson and Susan Orlean.

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In the past 120 years, these women have all made an impact on our world.

This collection of bits of wisdom begins with Oprah Winfrey recalling a 1998 interview during which the late, great film critic Gene Siskel asked her, “[W]hat do you know for sure?” “Now, this was not my first rodeo,” Oprah writes. “I’ve asked and been asked an awful lot of questions over the years . . . but I have to say, the man managed to stop me in my tracks.” In the years following that interview, Oprah wrote monthly columns called “What I Know for Sure” in her eponymous magazine.

Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook's chief operating officer, speaks during a news conference in New York City on December 2, 2011. Facebook announced that New York will be the center of Facebook's new engineering technology initiative in 2012. Facebook, the world's largest social networking company, is expected to file for an IPO in April, and a public offering could reach a valuation of up to $100 billion and raise $10 billion. (Photo by Dennis Van Tine/ABACAUSA.COM/Newscom)

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Read a list of American poet and civil rights activist Maya Angelou's favorite books, from Langston Hughes to Louisa May Alcott.