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An interviewer read from [Piccard's] preflight checklist, which included the task "wipe windows." He smiled at her and said, “Everything changes but the eternally feminine.”

"Oh, there was nothing feminine about that," Piccard replied. "That's a safety engineer. You don't take off with dirty windows or windows that will frost up."

At age 11, her mother asked what she wanted to be when she grew up. "When I said I wanted to be a priest, poor darling, she burst into tears and ran out of the room," Piccard said. "That was the only time I saw my Victorian mother run."

In 1972 Piccard enrolled at Manhattan's General Theological Seminary, at age 77, intent on becoming a priest if the church ever permitted it.

As it turned out, she didn't wait for permission. In 1974 Piccard was the first woman ordained a priest, part of a group known as the "Philadelphia 11," in an "irregular" ceremony that defied church doctrine.

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From 2010: A Space Oddity

Yes, Greek myth or Roman epic as archetype or inspiration for your own peculiar spin, but also: Sundiata, Pride and Prejudice, Andy Warhol paintings, Basho’s haiku, the Green Man, the VW Bug, Frankenstein, Tiamat, The Dhammapada, rock and roll, Anansi tales, banshees, Sedna, avatars turned online/gaming identity, fox woman, Nero Wolfe, creation stories, 1950’s creature features — surprise us with something we can’t help but recognize, even as we’ve never seen it put to your uses.

Transform, transpose, transgender, trans-border our expectations with your wholly familiar, yet wholly new, take on a classic.