Glamour magazine’s Women of the Year awards brought out the best of the best women in entertainment.
Pop star Rihanna, tennis world champ Serena Williams, world renown speaker and author Maya Angelou were all honored at the event; along with many other spectacular ladies. Celebrities such as Tyra Banks, Stella McCartney, super model Iman, Maria Striver, Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones were presenters and receivers of awards; so were Katie Couric and former President Bill Clinton.
But the biggest ovation at Monday evening’s award ceremony went to the 81-year-old poet Maya Angelou, whose soaring words on the power of womanhood brought many to tears and nearly everyone to their feet.
Women, Angelou told the crowd in her speech, “are rainbows in the clouds.”
“I am grateful to be a woman,” said Angelou, who won the lifetime achievement award. “I must have done something great in another life.” As for the men: “You have to write your own poem,” the poet said to laughter, including from Clinton, the man who had called upon her to recite poetry at his inauguration.
Rihanna and Iman
Serena accepting her award
Highlights form the event
