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- Constance Georgine, Countess Markiewicz (3360 bytes)
10: ...[[Member of Parliament#United Kingdom|MP]]s. This made her the first woman elected to the [[House of Com... - Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
2: ...male Prime Minister in the world, as well as the only former American citizen to hold the post ([[Benj...
10: ...her ran a grocery store. Beginning when she was only eight years old, Golda oversaw the store for a s...
42: After [[Levi Eshkol]] died suddenly on [[February 26]], [[1969]], the party chose he...
55: ... is better that things are stated clearly and plainly: We shall not let this happen."—Golda Meir...
59: ...is country exists as the fulfillment of a promise made by God Himself. It would be ridiculous to ask it ... - Janet Reno (5747 bytes)
34: ... Reno enrolled at [[Harvard Law School]], one of only sixteen women in a class of more than 500 studen...
42: ...a variety of intractable cultural conflicts. This made her a lightning rod for criticism of the Clinton ...
70: Many comedians have made fun of Reno, characterizing the 6' 3" figure as a... - Condoleezza Rice (23116 bytes)
27: ... [[Colin Powell]]), and the second woman (after [[Madeleine Albright]]) to serve in that post.
34: Rice was born in [[Birmingham, Alabama]], the only child of [[Angelena Rice]] and the [[Reverend]] ...
37: ...non-minorities [http://www.racematters.org/lessononlifecondoleezzarice.htm].
41: ...Korbel]], the father of former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. This experience sparked her intere...
77: ...f State]] replacing Powell, whose resignation was made public the day before. Bush named Rice's deputy, ... - Mary Robinson (21825 bytes)
25: ...llege, considered to be a prestigious appointment made to accomplished lawyers. Subsequent holders of th...
45: ...idency and the first woman candidate in what was only the second presidential election to be contested...
55: ...n as a near certainty to win the presidency. The only question asked was whether Robinson would beat C...
65: ...resident Hillery back in 1982, became known, suddenly was taken very seriously again. (As was Hillery,...
69: ... she sought it. In the previous fifty-two years, only one address to the Oireachtas (parliament) had t... - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
13: ...th]] who was enraged that the homely Eleanor not only snagged her cousin Franklin as a husband, but th...
16: ...ne of Mrs. Roosevelt's most extensive biographies made a well documented argument for the theory in her ...
37: ...her old friends [[Herbert Lehman]] and [[Thomas Finletter]] to form the New York Committee for Democra... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
27: ... United Kingdom]] from [[1979]] to [[1990]], the only woman [[as of 2005]] to serve in that position. ...
33: ...even less popular [[Community Charge]], more commonly known as the [[poll tax]]. At the same time the ...
43: ...f Commons]]. Unusually, her [[maiden speech]] was made in support of her [[Private Member's Bill]] which...
47: ...icy of the Labour Government as being steps "not only towards [[Socialism]], but towards [[Communism]]...
55: ...ade a speech at Kensington Town Hall in which she made a scathing attack on the [[Soviet Union]]. The mo... - Annie Besant (4275 bytes)
7: ...). Thereafter she devoted much of her energy not only to the Theosophical Society, but also to India's...
15: ...n founded to support him and of which he had been made the leader. [http://www.katinkahesselink.net/kr/s...
36: *[http://www.theosophical.ca/OnLineDocs.htm Theosophical.ca On-Line Documents] Som... - Millicent Fawcett (1226 bytes)
7: She was made a [[Order of the British Empire|Dame of the Briti... - Emma Goldman (12210 bytes)
13: ...s attempted assassination of [[Henry Clay Frick]] made her highly unpopular with the authorities. Berkma...
21: ...th Czolgosz's actions. Goldman had met Czolgosz only once, briefly, several weeks before, where he ha...
45: ...ion]] can ever succeed as a factor of liberation unless the means used to further it be identical in s...
49: ...been working to undo the botched job your God has made." [[Living my Life]], p. 207.</blockquote>
51: ...he ruler. If it is the Russian tsar, I most certainly believe in dispatching him to where he belongs. ... - Rosa Luxemburg (23905 bytes)
14: ...emburg believed that an independent Poland could only come about through revolutions in [[Germany]], [...
19: ...apital]] and [[labour (economics)|labour]] could only be countered if the proletariat took over power ...
48: ...and particular slogans, of the workers' struggle only in the course of the development of this struggl...
53: ..., especially the [[Russian Revolution of 1905]]. Unlike the social democratic orthodoxy of the [[Secon...
56: ...y the mouthpiece of the will and striving of the enlightened masses, merely the agents of the objectiv... - Madalyn Murray O'Hair (6271 bytes)
4: ... [[1941]], however they separated when they both enlisted, he in the [[United States Marine Corps | US...
13: Madalyn Murray O'Hair clashed not only with religious believers but with many atheists....
16: ... from a San Antonio jeweler but took delivery of only $500,000. No further communication came from any...
21: ...rity among atheists and various efforts have been made to introduce a new term into common use. - Christabel Pankhurst (1631 bytes)
9: She was made a Dame Commander of the British Empire in 1936. - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
11: ...aldeman-Julius]] "[[Little Blue Books]]." It not only provided basic information about such topics as ...
19: ...er died in 1966 in [[Tucson, Arizona]] at age 87 only a few months after the landmark [[Griswold v. Co...
31: ...d of exhausting her system, with the results not unlike the effects of masturbation and debauchery.
38: ...o fill page upon page of heartrending confessions made by young girls, whose lives were blighted by this...
47: ...om/swtaboo/taboos/ms_apwp.html]. Then considered enlightened in some circles, today such measures are ... - Gloria Steinem (3728 bytes)
23: ...Christian Bale]]. However, they were married for only three years before he died of brain [[lymphoma]]...
25: She made famous a phrase that was coined by Australian aut... - Isabel Allende (3632 bytes)
16: ...982). The book was a great success and was later made into a film (''[[The House of the Spirits]]'', 19... - Margaret Atwood (6318 bytes)
8: ...ce fiction [[novel]] ''[[The Handmaid's Tale]]'' (made into a movie and an opera), or for her [[Booker P...
12: ... a "remote book-signing device" at an invitation-only presentation in Toronto. The device, also calle...
14: She was made an Officer of the [[Order of Canada]] in 1973 and...
58: :''[[The Canlit Foodbook: From Pen to palate - A Collection of ... - Marguerite Duras (1799 bytes)
7: ...or works include ''[[Moderato Cantabile]]'', also made into a film of the same name, ''[[Le Ravissement ... - George Eliot (6014 bytes)
10: ...he remained married to her in name only, while he made house solely with Evans.
23: As an author, Eliot was not only very successful in sales, but she was, and remai... - Veronica Franco (1937 bytes)
9: The life and times of Veronica Franco were made into the 1998 movie, "Dangerous Beauty".
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