BMW Group Presents: 200 Women Who Will Change the Way You See the World.

New Book and Storytelling Exhibition Celebrating Inspirational Women Opens at Pen + Brush Gallery in New York City on May 15th.

Among the women honored are the recently passed Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, who was a remarkable freedom fighter on the front line of the struggle for the people in South Africa, bestselling authors Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Margaret Atwood, actor and activist Gillian Anderson, supreme court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern, classic violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter and conservationist Jane Goodall, alongside other activists, artists, astronauts, entrepreneurs and a brave Nepalese woman who has spent most of her life living on the streets of Kathmandu selling cigarettes – one at a time – to support her family.

I know it’s a heavy subject what she’s talking about but why does Gillian look so sad in those vids? Is she acting or what?

I don’t know if acting is the right word, one’s always acting in front of a camera. I think the concept of these videos – white background, no makeup, no jewelry, nothing fancy – is supposed to help giving a serious and heavy atmosphere to what is said. Though, I have no idea why she seems on verge of crying. Maybe there were more questions before those ones that explain why she’s moved like that. I felt a bit queasy watching them, to be honest.