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Jane Addams
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Founder of the social work profession in the US
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Maria Gaetana Agnesi
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Wrote first book discussing both differential and integral calculus
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Maya Angelou
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Author of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
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Susan B. Anthony
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Co-founder of the first Women's Temperance Movement
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Eleanor of Aquitaine
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One of the most powerful women in western Europe during High Middle Ages
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Joan of Arc
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Led the French army to victories against England during Hundred Years' War
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Jane Austen
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Wrote Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813) and Emma (1816)
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St. Teresa of Ávila
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Major writer of Spanish Renaissance literature, as well as works on Christian mysticism
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Lucille Ball
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One of the most popular and influential stars in the United States during her lifetime; also the first woman to own and run an American TV studio
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Clara Barton
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Founded the American Red Cross
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), a depiction of life for African-Americans under slavery
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Aphra Behn
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The first English professional female literary writer
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Benazir Bhutto
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11th Prime Minister of Pakistan
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Hildegard of Bingen
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Writer of the Ordo Virtutum, the oldest surviving morality play
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Boudicca
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Queen of the British Iceni tribe; led an uprising against the occupying forces of the Roman Empire
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Emily Brontë
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Writer of Wuthering Heights, a classic of English literature
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Catherine the Great
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Under her reign, Russia became one of the great powers of Europe
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Mary Cassatt
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The most influential female Impressionist artist of all time
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Coco Chanel
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Liberated women from the constraints of the "corseted silhouette" and arguably created modern high fashion
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Shirley Chisholm
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The first African-American woman elected to Congress
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Agatha Christie
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Best remembered for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections; also wrote the world's longest-running play
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Cleopatra
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The last pharaoh of Ancient Egypt
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Hillary Clinton
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As a presidential candidate in 2008, she won more primaries and gathered more delegates than any woman in US history
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Marie Curie
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Single-handedly discovered two elements and theorised radioactivity
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Simone de Beauvoir
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Writer of The Second Sex (1949), a founding tract of contemporary feminism
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Catherine de Medici
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Arguably the most powerful woman in sixteenth-century Europe
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Princess Diana
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Princess of Wales and the president of Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children
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Emily Dickinson
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The most important American poet of the nineteenth century and the pioneer of slant rhyme
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Amelia Earhart
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The first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean
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Shirin Ebadi
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Iranian lawyer, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her pioneering efforts in women's, children's and refugee rights
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Gertrude B. Elion
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Developed the first immunosuppressant agent
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George Eliot
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Her 1872 work, Middlemarch, has been described by Martin Amis and Julian Barnes as the greatest novel in the English language
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Queen Elizabeth I
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Her reign is famous above all for the flourishing of English drama and for the seafaring prowess of English adventurers such as Francis Drake
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Ella Fitzgerald
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Over the course of her 59-year recording career, she sold 40 million copies of her 70-plus jazz albums
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Anne Frank
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Her world-famous diary documents her experiences hiding during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II
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Rosalind Franklin
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Discovered proof of the double-helix structure of DNA before the men credited with doing so, Francis Crick, James Watson, and Maurice Wilkins; their work was based in part on her data
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Elizabeth Fry
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A major driving force behind new legislation to make the treatment of prisoners more humane
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Indira Gandhi
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The third Prime Minister of India and a central figure of the Indian National Congress party
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Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
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The first Englishwoman to qualify as a physician and surgeon in Britain
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Jane Goodall
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The world's foremost expert on chimpanzees
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Germaine Greer
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Her book The Female Eunuch became an international bestseller in 1970
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Alice Hamilton
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The first female professor at Harvard; the founder of industrial toxicology
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Hatshepsut
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Regarded by Egyptologists as one of the most successful pharaohs
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Katharine Hepburn
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Came to epitomise the "modern woman" in 20th-century America with her lifestyle and the characters she played
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Dorothy Hodgkin
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Confirmed the structure of penicillin and discovered the structure of Vitamin B12, for which she won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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Billie Holiday
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Her vocal style "changed the art of American pop vocals forever"
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Grace Hopper
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Developed the first compiler for a computer programming language
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Hypatia
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The first well-documented woman in mathematics
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Frida Kahlo
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Her art has been celebrated as emblematic of Mexican indigenous tradition, and for its uncompromising depiction of the female experience
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Helen Keller
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The first deaf-blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree
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Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
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Remembered for her contributions to the arts and preservation of historic architecture, her style, elegance and grace
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Billie Jean King
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Won 39 Grand Slam titles, including 12 singles, 16 women's doubles and 11 mixed doubles titles
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Ada Lovelace
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Her notes on the engine include what is recognised as the first algorithm intended to be carried out by a machine
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Rosa Luxemburg
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Marxist theorist and political activist; successfully a founding member of SDKPiL, SPD, USPD and KPD
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Wangari Maathai
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The first African woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize
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Madonna
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The bestselling female recording artist of all time
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Mary Magdalene
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Within the four Gospels, the oldest historical record mentioning her name, she is named at least 12 times, more than most of the apostles
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Margaret Mead
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American cultural anthropologist, who was frequently a featured author and speaker in the mass media throughout the 1960s and 1970s
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Meerabai
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Some 1,300 pads (poems) commonly known as bhajans (sacred songs) are attributed to her
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Marilyn Monroe
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She has often been cited as both a pop and a cultural icon, as well as the quintessential American sex symbol
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Toni Morrison
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The first African-American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature; also winner of the Pulitzer Prize
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Emily Murphy
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Best known for her contributions to Canadian feminism, specifically to the question of whether women were "persons" under Canadian law
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Stevie Nicks
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In the course of her work with her band and her extensive solo career, she has produced over forty Top 50 hits and sold over 140 million albums
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Florence Nightingale
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A celebrated British social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing
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Georgia O'Keeffe
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Has been recognised as the mother of American modernism
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Emmeline Pankhurst
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"She shaped an idea of women for our time; she shook society into a new pattern from which there could be no going back"
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Rosa Parks
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An African-American civil rights activist, whom the United States Congress called "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement"
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Eva Perón
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Argentine first lady; founded and ran the nation's first large-scale female political party, the Female Peronist Party
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Sylvia Plath
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In 1982, she won a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for The Collected Poems
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Beatrix Potter
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Wrote and illustrated The Tale of Peter Rabbit
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Condoleezza Rice
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The first female African-American secretary of US state
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Sally Ride
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The first American woman in space
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Eleanor Roosevelt
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President Harry S. Truman called her the "First Lady of the World" in tribute to her human rights achievements
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JK Rowling
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Writer of the best-selling book series in history
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Margaret Sanger
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Coined the term "birth control", opened the first birth control clinic in the United States, and established organisations that became the Planned Parenthood Federation of America
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Sappho
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The Alexandrians included her as the only female in the list of nine lyric poets
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Mary Seacole
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Posthumously awarded the Jamaican Order of Merit in 1991; in 2004 she was voted the greatest black Briton
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Mary Shelley
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Best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus (1818), published when she was twenty-one
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Ching Shih
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Undefeated, she is one of world history's most powerful pirates
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Muriel Siebert
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The first woman to own a seat on the New York Stock Exchange and the first woman to head one of the NYSE's member firms
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Gertrude Stein
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An avant-garde pioneer of postmodernism in literature and a central figure of the modernist movement
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Gloria Steinem
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Cofounder of Ms. magazine, who became nationally recognized as a leader of, and media spokeswoman for, the women's liberation movement in the late 1960s and 1970s
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Meryl Streep
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She is widely regarded as one of the greatest film actresses of all time
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Aung San Suu Kyi
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Initiated a nonviolent movement towards democracy and human rights in Burma; placed under house arrest in 1989; in 1991, her ongoing efforts won her the Nobel Prize for Peace
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Mother Teresa
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Founded the Missionaries of Charity, a Roman Catholic religious congregation, which in 2012 consisted of over 4,500 sisters and was active in 133 countries
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Margaret Thatcher
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The longest-serving British Prime Minister of the 20th century and so far the only woman to have held the office
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Sojourner Truth
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A former slave, prominent abolitionist and women's rights activist whose legacy of feminism and racial equality still resonates today
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Harriet Tubman
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Born into slavery, she escaped and subsequently made nineteen-plus missions to rescue more than 300 slaves using the network known as the Underground Railroad
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Twiggy
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Widely regarded as the first supermodel; one of the cultural faces of 1960s Britain
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Lillian Vernon
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Started a mail-order business in 1951 out of her apartment, which became the first female-founded company to be publicly traded on the American Stock Exchange
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Queen Victoria
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Her reign was a period of industrial, cultural, political, scientific, and military change within the United Kingdom, and was marked by a great expansion of the British Empire
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Edith Wharton
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Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist; nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1927, 1928 and 1930
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Oprah Winfrey
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Currently North America's only black billionaire; she is also, according to some assessments, the most influential woman in the world
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Mary Wollstonecraft
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Regarded as one of the founding feminist philosophers; feminists often cite both her life and work as important influences
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Virginia Woolf
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An English writer; one of the foremost modernists of the twentieth century
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Wu Zetian
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The only woman to have ever ruled China in her own right
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