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Circa 630 - 570 BC, One of the more famous poets of Ancient Greece, referred by Plato as one of the top 10 poets. She spent her entire life on the island of Lesbos
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Sappho
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69 - 30 BC, The last Ptolemaic ruler of Egypt, she tried to defend Egypt from the Roman Empire through personal relations with Marc Anthony and Julius Caesar
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Cleopatra
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4BC - 40AD, One of Jesus' most devoted followers, she was the first to see Jesus after the resurrection
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Mary Magdalene
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1st Century AD, Led the Britons against the German invasion.
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Boudicca
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1098 - 1179, Mystic, author and composer. Popes, kings, and other important individuals consulted her for advice.
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Hildegarde of Bingen
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1122 - 1204, First Queen of France. Her sons, John and Richard, became kings of England.
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Eleanor of Aquitaine
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1412 - 1431, Patron saint of France, Inspired the French to revolt against the English occupation. Later burned at the stake.
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Joan of Arc
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1498 - 1565, Indian mystic and poet. A devotee of Krishna and yoga.
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Mirabai
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1512 - 1585, Spanish mystic, poetic, and Carmelite reformer
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St. Teresa of Avila
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1519 - 1589, Born to a famous Florence family, she married the King of France at the age of 14 and was involved in the St. Bartholomew's massacre.
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Catherine de Medici
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1533 - 1603, Queen of England who ensured England would be Protestant and free of Spanish control
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Elizabeth I
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1729 - 1796, A minor German princess who became the Queen of Russia after her husband was assasinated
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Catherine the Great
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1759 - 1797, An early feminist best known for A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
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Mary Wollstonecraft
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1775 - 1817, Popular English author known for novels such as Pride and Prejudice and Emma
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Jane Austen
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1810 - 1850, An American women's right advocate wrote Women in the Nineteenth Century
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Margaret Fuller
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1811 - 1896, An anti-slavery campaigner and writer of Uncle Tom's Cabin
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
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1815 - 1902, American social activist, suffragist and temperance movement leader
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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1819 - 1901, Long ruling monarch of the British Empire
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Victoria
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1820 - 1910, Nurse during the Crimean War. Helped change the treatment of wounded soldiers
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Florence Nightingale
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1820 - 1906, Campaigned against slavery and for temperance and women and workers' rights
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Susan B. Anthony
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1821 - 1910, Born in Britain, she became the first licensed female doctor in the US.
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Elizabeth Blackwell
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1830 - 1886, American poet
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Emily Dickinson
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1858 - 1928, British suffragette, she advocated any form of protest including violence and hunger strikes
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Emmeline Pankhurst
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1867 - 1934, Polish scientist in Paris, she won Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry.
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Marie Curie
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1868 - 1933, A Canadian magistrate, she challenged the law which did not recognize women as persons.
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Emily Murphy
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1870 - 1919, Polish-Jewish Marxist revolutionary who founded the German Communist Party and was killed by right wing militia suppressing the Spartacist revolution.
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Rosa Luxemburg
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1880 - 1968, Blind and deaf, she campaigned for human rights and social justics
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Helen Keller
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1883 - 1971, French fashion designer who defined femimine style and dress in the 20th century
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Coco Chanel
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1884 - 1962, Head of the UN Human Rights Committee she drafted the 1948 UN Declaration of Human Rights. She was also spouse to a US president
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Eleanor Roosevelt
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1907 - 2003, American actress and winner of four Oscars and twelve nominations
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Katharine Hepburn
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1908 - 1986, French existentialist philosopher best know for the Second Sex and her friendship with Sartre
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Simone de Beauvoir
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1910 - 1997, Albanian nun who spent most of her life in Kolkata, soon to be a saint.
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Mother Teresa
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1910 - 1994, British chemist who won a Nobel Prize for her work on the structure of penicillin and insulin. She also devoted a large part of her life to the peace movement and nuclear disarmament
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Dorothy Hodgkin
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1913 - 2005, American civil rights leader who refused to change seats in Montgomery, Alabama
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Rosa Parks
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1915 - 1959, American jazz singer or First Lady of the Blues
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Billie Holiday
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1917 - 1984, First female of Prime Minister of India. She was assassinated by her Sikh guards
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Indira Gandhi
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1919 - 1952, First Lady of Argentina, she concisely supported the women and workers' rights. Madonna later portrayed her in a biopic.
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Eva Peron
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1921 - 2006 American social activist and writer of The Feminine Mystique.
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Betty Friedan
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1925 - 2013 First female Prime Minister of the UK, known as the Iron Lady by some and the Milk Snatcher by her detractors
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Margaret Thatcher
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1926 - 1962, American actress and model. Happy Birthday to the President
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Marilyn Monroe
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1926 - Longest serving British monarch
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Elizabeth II
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1929 - 1945 Her dairy as a 13 year old Jewish girl hiding in Amsterdam is one of the most widely read books.
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Anne Frank
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1929 - 1993, British actress who defined feminine glamor and dignity. After her film career ended in the mid-60s, she worked for UNICEF
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Audrey Hepburn
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1939 - , Australian feminist who wrote the Female Eunuch
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Germaine Greer
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1940 - 2011, Kenyan born environmentalist, democracy activist, and women's right campaigner. Awarded a Nobel Peace Prize
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Wangari Maathai
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1943 - , Campaigned to bring an end to sectarian violence in northern Ireland, she was given the Nobel Peace Prize with Mairead Corrigan in 1977
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Betty Williams
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1943 - , American tennis player who campaigned for equal treatment and pay for female athletes. She won 20 Wimbledon titles.
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Billie Jean King
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1947 - , Iranian human rights advocate and lawyer. Given the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003
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Shirin Ebadi
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1953 - 2007, First female prime minister of a Muslim country. Moved Pakistan from a dictatorship to a democracy. Assassinated in 2007.
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Benazir Bhutto
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1954 - , African-American talk show host, book club, and television network.
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Oprah Winfrey
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1958 - , American singer, songwriter, actress. Most successful female musician.
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Madonna
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1961 - 1997, British royal princess and humanitarian worker. Died in a car accident in Paris.
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Diana Princess of Wales
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1965 - , One of the most successful writers of all time, her Harry Potter series revived reading among young people.
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JK Rowling
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1997 - , Pakistani school girl shot by the Taliban for campaigning for education rights. Known by her first name.
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Malala Yousafzai
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Also you have a typo "her dairy" when I'm certain you mean "her diary"
Hope you will create many more quizzes.