Annette Funicello Quotes
In the United States women develop MS at approximately twice the rate men do, and no one can explain why women are affected most often from the waist down.
Funicello, Annette, and Patricia Romanowski. A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes: My Story. Hyperion, 1994.
Referring to women and children
It is noteworthy that women did not at the time even have the vote, but were still politically active.
For reasons few understand, she was, even as late as 2011, the only regular female political cartoonist employed regularly by a newspaper or syndicate.
Annette Joanne Funicello was an American actress and singer. Funicello began her professional career as a child performer at the age of twelve. She rose to prominence as one of the most popular Mouseketeers on the original Mickey Mouse Club. As a teenager, she transitioned to a successful career as a singer with the pop singles "O Dio Mio", "First Name Initial", "Tall Paul" and "Pineapple Princess", as well as establishing herself as a film actress, popularizing the successful "Beach Party" genre alongside co-star Frankie Avalon during the mid-1960s.