Cleopatra and Queen Elizabeth ...for ruling the game in a man's world
Marie Curie for being the first to venture into the 'rationa'l world
Simone De Beauvoir for saying out loud
"One is not born, but becomes a woman"
Jane Austen for writing her story ...the queen of irony "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife" :p
Andrea Dworkin for writing "Pornography and Civil Rights: A New Day for Women's Equality (1988). "
Aung San Suu Kyi for standing up for what she believes
Madonna for making patriarchal stereotypes dance on their head with her 'LIKE a virgin"
J K Rowling for creating Harry Potter :D
Sojourner Truth for " Ain't I a woman " speech
And ain't I a woman?
Look at me
Look at my arm!
I have plowed and planted
and gathered into barns
and no man could head me. . .
And ain't I a woman?
I could work as much
and eat as much as a man--
when I could get to it--
and bear the lash as well
and ain't I a woman?
I have born 13 children
and seen most all sold into slavery
and when I cried out a mother's grief
none but Jesus heard me. . .
and ain't I a woman?
that little man in black there say
a woman can't have as much rights
as a man
cause Christ wasn't a woman
Where did your Christ come from?
From God and a woman!
Man had nothing to do with him!
If the first woman God ever made
was strong enough to turn the world
upside down, all alone
together women ought to be able
to turn it rightside up
again.
Virginia Woolf for writing A Room of One's Own
Mahasweta Devi for raising her voice against the system
Kalpana Chawla for living our wildest dream to fly
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