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Women in History

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Susan Brownell Anthony
1820-1906

Mary Kay Ash
1915-2001

Ada Byron (Lady Lovelace)
1815-1851

Linda Chavez-Thompson
1944 -

Shirley Chisholm
1924 -

Anna Comnena
1083-1153

Ellen Smith Craft
1826-1891

Angela Y. Davis
1944 -

Celine Dion

Amelia Earhart
1897-1937

Anne Frank
1929-1945

Fannie Lou Hamer
1917-1977

Clara Haskil
1895-1960

Laura S. Haviland
1808-1898

Bernadine Healy
1944 -

Mae Jemison
1956 -

Mary Harris
(Mother) Jones

1831-1931

Billie Jean King
1943 -

Aung San Suu Kyi
1945 - 

Wilma P. Mankiller
1945 -

Dorothy Parker
1893-1967

Lucy Parsons
1853-1942

Harriet Quimby
1875-1912

Janet Reno
1938 -

Ann Richards
1933 -

Sally Ride
1951 -

Eleanor Roosevelt
1884-1962

Wilma Rudolph
1940-1994

Sappho
circa 630 BC

Nina Simone
1933 - 2003

Bessie Smith
1894-1937

Mother Teresa
1910-1997

Margaret Thatcher
1925 -

Harriet Tubman
1820-1913

Madame C.J. Walker
1867-1919

Ida B. Wells-Bernett
1862-1931

Phillis Wheatley
1753-1784

Oprah Winfrey
1954 -

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
1921 -

Babe Didrikson Zaharias
1914-1956
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