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- Agnes Martin
- 1912-2004. Canadian-American painter who lived and worked in both New York City and Taos, New Mexico. Her style was minimalist and many of her paintings reflect her Taoist leanings.
- Anne Bronte
- Novelist and poet. Author of Agnes Grey, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, and coauthor of Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell.
- Barbara McClintock
- The first to demonstrate the action of transposable genetic element. In 1983, she won the Nobel Prize for Medicine.
- Clara Barton (Clarissa Harlowe Barton)
- American administrator who did battlefield relief work during the Civil War and organized the American Red Cross. School teacher, clerk, battlefield heroine, lecturer, organizer, and author
- Coco (Gabrielle) Chanel
- 1883-1971. French fashion designer who introduced the world to her signature cardigan sweater, "little black dress" and Chanel No. 5. She briefly served as a nurse in World War II. Coco even had a Broadway musical, Coco written about her life.
- Dr. Condoleezza Rice
- First African-American woman to hold the Cabinet post of US Secretary of State. In 2004 and 2005 Forbes Magazine ranked her as the most powerful woman in the world.
- Dorothea Dix
- Worked tirelessly for reform of mental hospitals and the treatment of patients and prisoners. Superintendent of Nurses during the Civil War.
- Elizabeth I
- The last and longest-reigning of the Tudors, ruling for 45 years. She reigned through war, discovery and religious strife. A poet.
- Emily Bronte
- Author of Wuthering Heights.
- Emily Dickinson
- Recognized as one of the greatest American poets of the 19th century.
- Florence Nightingale
- Gertrude Bell
- _Scholar, historian, kingmaker, archaeologist, spy. _
- Greta Garbo
- Grimke sisters
- Helen Keller
- Deaf-blind writer and essayist. First deaf-blind person ever to graduate from college. Advocate for the blind and the deaf-blind.
- Henrietta Szold
- During the 1930s, Szold involved Hadassah in a program to rescue Jewish youth from Germany, and later from all of Europe. It is estimated that the program she created, "Youth Aliyah," saved some 22,000 Jewish children from Hitler's concentration camps
- Jane Addams
- Won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931 for her heroic efforts at improving the lives of the poor. Devoted her life to her work at Hull House. Active member of the Progressive Party, served on the Chicago School Board, headed the National Conference of Social Work
- Jane Austen
- 1775-1817. Well-loved English Regency author.
- Joan of Arc
- 1412-1431. National heroine in France. At age 17 she led the victorious French troops in the Battle of Orleans (1429). Two years later she was convicted of heresy and burned at the stake; in 1920 Joan was canonized by the Roman Catholic church as a saint.
- Helen Reddy
- October 25, 1941 -. Australian pop singer and actress. She scored an international hit in 1972 with "I am Woman", a song that quickly became a feminist anthem and hit #1 on the U.S. charts.
- Hypatia
- Brilliant public speaker and scholar; followed her father on the library's faculty. Writer on mathematics and astronomy. Did work on algebraic equations and conic sections. Invented the astrolabe for ship navigation and devices for measuring the density of fluids.
- Lillian Gish
- Lise Meitner
- Nuclear physicist. When WWI erupted, Meitner returned to Austria to work in a field hospital as a radiologist. In 1917, she & Hahn discovered protactinium, the parent element of actinium. 1918 named head of the physics dept. at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute. 1926 named Germany's first female professor of physics at University of Berlin. Studied beta & gamma radiation, early user of the Geiger counter in her testing.
- Louisa May Alcott
- American author
- Margaret Brent
- 1601-1671. influential woman in colonial America, specifically in Maryland and northern Virginia. Attorney for the governor of Maryland. First colonial female landowner, first female lawyer in America, early feminist.
- Marie Corelli
- Queen Victoria's favorite author; friend of Mark TwainOuida, the Empress Frederick of Germany. Crusaded to preserve Shakespeare's shrine in the Church of the Holy Trinity as well as some cottages once owned by his descendents. Helped establish Harvard House for visiting Harvard students. Settled with her devoted, lifelong friend, Bertha Vyver in Stratford-upon-Avon.
- Maria Van Oosterwych
- 1630-1693 Dutch painter. Her work is often attributed to de Heem or Willem van Oelst.
- Mary Cassatt
- One of the few women Impressionists. Though classically trained, she preferred the company of radicals.
- Mother Teresa (Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu)
- Oprah Winfrey
- Oprah Winfrey said the reason she never married and had children was so that she could work with the "world's children." "I went to Africa to create the best Christmas possible for kids who'd never had one," she said. "And the joy in that room was so thick you physically feel it. In that moment, it hit me. Now I see why I am not married. Now I see why I never had children. I am supposed to work with these children."
- Rachel Carson
- Author of The Silent Spring, considered the fountainhead of the new environmental movement.
- Sally J. Priesand
- June 27, 1946 -. America's first ordained female rabbi.
- Susan B. Anthony
- Social reformer, women's suffrage leader, independent woman. Drew inspiration for her fight for equality before God from her Quaker upbringing. Devoted herself to the cause of women's rights for over 50 years.
- Walladah bint Mustakfi
- Daughter of the caliph of Cordoba (a tolerant, multicultural society, famous for its many libraries and sophisticated literary life, in which women were often scholars) in Islamic Spain. After her father's death, Walladah inherited enough wealth to guarantee her independence. She was well known as a poet and hosted literary gatherings for both men and women. She had several famous love affairs, including one with the prominent poet Ibn Zaydun, but never married.
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