Film critics said I gave a voice to the fear we all have: that we'll reach a certain point in our lives, look around and realize that all the things we said we'd do and become will never come to be - and that we're ordinary.

She was inducted as honorary member of the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1995. Bancroft was a camper and staff member at YMCA Camp Widjiwagan. Paul Minnesota.

She was the first woman to successfully finish a number of arduous expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctic. She was inducted as honorary member of the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1995.