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When she was found guilty of treason and "political activism" (which wouldn't even have been considered a crime for a man), she was sentenced to die.
- Added: Nov 05, 2012
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Sanger opened the first family planning and birth control clinic in the United States, where she began distributing, among other things, diaphragms...
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Till used the broken body of her only child to give an entire nation a much needed object lesson.
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Stone proceeded to live the life of a lecturer on abolition and women's rights.
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"I have been crowned Queen of the Desert...I have nothing to fear...I am the sun, the stars, the pearl, the lion, the light from heaven.”
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While birthing and raising five children, Pankhurst turned her home into a center where abolitionists, anarchists, activists and revolutionaries of...
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Sirleaf has made education free and compulsory for all children in Liberia. She was responsible for the establishment of a Truth and Reconciliation...
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Stanton eventually claimed that the 14th and 15th Amendments, in fact -- because of the way they were worded -- gave women the right to vote
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In 1954, Tamana helped to organize the first Conference of the Federation of South African Women and she was elected to the organization's national...
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Instructed in a "vision" to save men from a drunkard's fate by smashing the bottles waiting behind the bars of Kansas taverns, Nation went forth in...
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Phoebe Ann Moses so fascinated a sharpshooting Irish immigrant named Frank Butler by beating him out of a hundred dollar bet that he married her an...
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Annie Edson Taylor was the first to go over Niagra Falls in a barrel.
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Nzingha formed an alliance with the Dutch and spent the rest of her days leading troops into battle against them.
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Maathai worked to establish what came to be called the Green Belt Movement to combat desertification, deforestation, water crisis, and rural hunger...
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
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In 2011, when Tawakkol Karman became the youngest winner of the Nobel Peace Prize ever.
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Shirley Muldowney was the first person to win two and then three National Hot Rod Association Top Fuel dragster championships.
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At nearly thirty years of age, she heard the call to leave her family behind and take her adventurous spirit on the road to Japan, where she joined...
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Kahn was flown into Nazi-occupied France where she became indispensable for her transmissions by wire from Paris.
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Mai threw a Pakistani tribal council and the men who raped her an unexpected curve. Rather than kill herself, she sued the rapists in a court of law.
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During WWII Parsons dismissed all her servants and turned her house into a hiding place for downed British and American airmen.
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What does a woman do when her husband and four children all die of yellow fever and her dressmaking workshop burns to the ground? She becomes an in...
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When Adolph Hitler sent his troops into Russia in 1941, Litvyak lied about her flying experience and signed up to serve her country.
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By the time she'd found a small school that would accept her in the Montmarte section of Paris, it was apparent to anyone who would listen that Mic...
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And at twenty-eight years of age, having beaten every challenge life threw her, O'Neil climbed into the seat of a hydrogen peroxide powered rocket ...
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In 1993, Julie Krone became the first woman to win the Belmont Stakes.
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