The Women

Who is your favorite historical figure?

There are too many to count, but the following ladies Changed Things:

Mitochondrial Eve

Queen Hatshepsut

Queen Boudica

Murasaki Shikibu

Hildegard von Bingen

Maryam Al-Astrulabi

Eleanor of Acquitaine

Elizabeth I

Ada Lovelace

Jane Austen

Mary Wollstonecroft Shelley

Phillis Wheatley

Harriet Tubman

Florence Nightingale

Sojourner Truth

Susan B. Anthony

Josephine Baker

Virginia Woolf

Simone de Beauvoire

Toni Morrison

Wangari Maathai

Maya Angelou

I’m pretty sure a whole number of amazing historical women are missing here. Feel free to add more Women Who Changed Things.

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