Clementine Churchill. For Winston Churchill his wife was a loyal friend and chief ally. She had a strong character and a sober mind. Many believe that Clementine was able to unravel the secret of how not to get bored with the husband during 57 years of marriage.
Giulietta Masina. The marriage of director Federico Fellini and actress Giulietta Masina lasted 50 years and 1 day. They had different personalities, but this didn’t become a barrier for true love. If Juliet wasn’t with him on the set, her husband called home and asked her advise even for unimportant issues. She edited the scripts, chose actors and nature. Juliet devoted herself entirely to the career of genius director.
Gala. Once she had a simple name Elena Dyakonova. She first noted that Salvador Dali was a real genius. By the time they met, a man was on the verge of madness and was tortured by his own complexes. Gala was his first woman, the muse, model, mother, secretary, manager. She took care of everything: took care of him, organized the exhibitions, found the customers. She helped Salvador Dali to believe in himself. He signed his paintings as “Gala-Salvador Dalí” and believed that thanks to her he had become a real artist.
Hillary Clinton. This woman didn’t plan to get married, she dreamed of successful career much more than about the family. However, the future American president has destroyed all her plans for an independent life of free woman. Hillary Clinton began her political career in the youth, as a result her husband managed to build such an unattainable height. She is known for a steel grip and amazing female wisdom.
Barcza Mercedes Pardo. Gabriel Garcia Marquez met his future wife on the dance floor, when she was only 13 years old, and immediately offered to marry him. She agreed, but first she had to finish school. Their marriage was possible only after 13 years. Mercedes was with Gaby during his work on the novel “One Hundred Years of Solitude”. Eighteen months later the novel was written, but the author didn’t have enough money even then to send it to the editor. Then Mercedes sold the last things she had – a hair dryer, and a mixer. Soon her husband’s book brought huge fees, worldwide recognition and the Nobel Prize.
Yoko Ono. Many fans of the Beatles often blamed her in the collapse of the Beatles, but the problems appeared long before the meeting of Yoko Ono and John Lennon. Yoko showed the musician the world full of creativity: the avant-garde paintings, literature and extravagant performances. Thanks to her, there was a solo album of Lennon, whose title song «Imagine» has become an international anthem of the hippies. John was never tired to repeat that he and Yoko had one soul for two.
Rosalia Ortega. Amancio Ortega had worked as an ordinary messenger in a clothing factory and later was dismissed. He had a deep depression because of job, which Rosalia helped to overcome. She proposed her husband to sew clothes to order, and the couple opened a joint production at home. However this way of earning first came under threat – one after the other large customers refused to make orders. But Rosalia persuaded her husband to sell the jerseys themselves. So, in 1975 has appeared a shop Zorba. And in 2012, Bloomberg Ortega was acknowledged the richest man in Europe.
Sophia Tolstaya. This woman for over 48 years had been a guardian angel of Tolstoy. She was for her husband a secretary (only the famous novel “War and Peace” was copied 7 times!), a nurse, manager, publisher, and after his death – the guardian of his vast artistic heritage.
