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- Madalyn Murray O'Hair (6271 bytes)
1: ...and campaigned for the [[separation of church and state]].
4: ... 16 November]] [[1954]] she gave birth to another son (Jon Garth Murray) by a different father.
6: ==An American atheist==
7: ... magazine]] referred to Madalyn Murray as ''the most hated woman in America''.
9: ...[[CEO]] before later handing the office on to her son Jon Garth. - Christabel Pankhurst (1631 bytes)
1: ...st.jpg|thumbnail|250px|right|'''Christabel Pankhurst''']]
3: ..., [[1958]]) was a [[suffragette]] born in [[Manchester]], [[England]].
5: ...elf imprisoned on many occasions for her principles.
7: ...States]] where she eventually became an [[evangelist]].
9: She was made a Dame Commander of the British Empire in 1936. - Emmeline Pankhurst (1950 bytes)
1: ...mage:Emmeline_Pankhurst.jpg|frame|Emmeline Pankhurst]]
3: ...er, which is associated with the struggle for votes for women in the period immediately preceding [[W...
5: ...tial contribution to the campaign in different ways.
7: ... died ten years after seeing her most ardently pursued goal come to fruition: the right to vote for w... - Sylvia Pankhurst (3170 bytes)
1: ...[Image:MID_0330001169_5mb.jpg|thumb|Sylvia Pankhurst]]
3: ...ptember 27]], [[1960]]) was a campaigner in the [[suffragette]] movement.
5: ...ankhurst|Christabel]], would also become an activist.
7: ...e. But in contrast to them she retained her interest in the labour movement.
9: ...ught]]'', which subsequently became the ''[[Workers Dreadnought]]''. - Rosa Parks (8331 bytes)
1: ...sa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to make room for white people.]]
2: ...us]] seat to a white man who was getting on the bus.
3: ==Civil rights and political activity==
4: ...; most of her adult life she worked as a seamstress.
6: ...k School]], an education center for workers' rights and [[racial equality]]. - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
1: ...e:MargaretSanger-Underwood.LOC.jpg|thumb|Margaret Sanger.]]
2: ...trol. She was also a fervent believer in [[eugenics]].
5: ...ng year, followed in subsequent years by a second son and a daughter who died in childhood.
7: ...semination of contraceptive information and devices.
9: ...th for the [[United States Socialist Party|Socialist Party]] paper, ''The Call''. - Elizabeth Cady Stanton (4406 bytes)
1: ...hCadyStanton.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Elizabeth Cady Stanton and her daughter Harriot.]]
2: ... [[women's rights]] movement in the [[United States]].
4: ...was voted upon and carried, demanding voting rights for women.
6: ...olumes by various writers in 1922. Stanton was also active internationally, and in 1888 helped prepa...
8: ...eft|thumb|Elizabeth Cady Stanton in her later years.]] - Gloria Steinem (3728 bytes)
1: [[Image:Steinem.jpg|right|thumb|195px| Gloria Steinem.]]
2: ...She is the founder and original publisher of ''[[Ms. magazine]]''.
5: ...do, Gloria cared for her ill mother and helped to support them both.
8: ...1956]] and left to study in [[India]] for two years.
9: ...ion of her infamous undercover expose in working as a [[Playboy bunny]]. - Sojourner Truth (2794 bytes)
1: [[Image:Sojourner_Truth_01.jpg|thumb|Sojurner Truth]]
3: ...ner". The year of her birth is uncertain, but is usually taken to be 1797.
5: ...ierson]] in evangelical preaching on street-corners.
7: [[image:Sojourner_Truth.jpg|thumb|left|Sojurner Truth]]
8: ...ted commentary delivered in [[1851]] at the Women's Convention in [[Akron, Ohio|Akron]], [[Ohio]]. - Anna Akhmatova (2156 bytes)
1: ... significant Russian [[Acmeist poetry|Acmeist poets]].
3: ...s of living and writing in the shadow of [[Stalinism]].
5: ...d does not appear to have been happy; her parents separated in [[1905]].
7: ... [[1910]]. Their son, born in [[1912]], was the historian [[Lev Gumilyov]].
9: ...], with several poems written in the form of correspondence between the two. - Jane Austen (5805 bytes)
1: ...in a portrait based on one drawn by her sister Cassandra]]
2: ...).jpg|thumb|House of Jane Austen (today it is a museum)]]
3: ...parently sheltered life did nothing to reduce the stature and drama of her fiction.
5: ...re two months later and was buried in the [[Winchester_Cathedral|cathedral]].
7: ...ied, upper-class English women in the early [[1800s]]. - Margaret Atwood (6318 bytes)
2: ...eme Gibson]]; her daughter, Jess Atwood Gibson, was born in [[1976]].
4: ...Canadian nationalism]] in the [[1960s]] and [[1970s]].
6: ...1960s]], along with [[Gwendolyn MacEwen]], [[Dennis Lee]] and [[Michael Ondaatje]].
8: ...[[Booker Prize]]-winning novel ''[[The Blind Assassin]].''
10: ... version of the competition, ''Le combat des livres'', in [[2004]]. - Mary Cassatt (9047 bytes)
1: ...ary Cassatt]]. ([[1893]]). Oil on canvas. [[Art Institute of Chicago]]. ]]
2: ...dash; [[June 14]], [[1926]]) was an [[United States|American]] painter.
4: ...e capitals of Europe, including [[London]], [[Paris]], and [[Berlin]].
6: ...ers]] on her own and in [[1866]] she moved to Paris.
8: ...o paint copies of paintings in Italy, after which she traveled about Europe. - Artemisia Gentileschi (23093 bytes)
1: ... Beheading [[Holofernes]]'' (1612-21) Oil on canvas 199 x 162 cm Galleria degli [[Uffizi]], Florence]...
3: ...heroic themes were considered beyond a mere woman's reach.
7: ...avaggio]] during that period, her style was just as heavily influenced in turn.
9: ... Susanna and the Elders, Sch?rn Collection, Pommersfelden]]
10: ...h had [[Annibale Carracci]] among its major artists). - Georgia O'Keeffe (2572 bytes)
2: ...n [[Sun Prairie, Wisconsin|Sun Prairie]], [[Wisconsin]].
4: ...h often transformed the subject into a powerful abstract image.
6: ...d teaching at [[Columbia College]] in [[Columbia, South Carolina]].
8: ...s interpretations of landscapes in the American West.
10: ... and his wife divorced. In [[1924]], O'Keeffe and Stieglitz married. - Christine de Pizan (6645 bytes)
1: ...254.jpg|thumbnail|right|250px|Christine de Pizan, showing the interior of an apartment at the end of ...
2: ...had been the norm for centuries rather than Pizan's invention.
4: ...y various ducal and Royal households, in order to support her three children.
5: ...f Orleans]] and attacked the ''[[Romance of the Rose]]'' written by [[Jean de Meung]].
9: ...ave recourse to [[literature | letters]] as a means of livelihood. - Amelia Earhart (9225 bytes)
2: ...emale pilots, and remembered for her mysterious disappearance during a flight over the [[Pacific Ocea...
6: ... years of her life living with her mother's parents.
8: ...eatured in local newspapers while she taught English.
10: ...]]. Earhart referred to the marriage as a "partnership" with "dual control."
12: ==Flights== - Nancy Harkness Love (1763 bytes)
1: ...[United States|American]] [[aviator | pilot]] and squadron commander during [[World War II]].
3: ...ion, she worked in various jobs in [[aviation]]. She married Robert Maclure Love in [[1936]].
5: ...r Company]], testing various aircraft modifications including the new [[tricycle landing gear]].
7: ...ith her as a squadron commander. In [[1943]] the squadron merged with the
8: [[Women?s Flying Training Detachment]] to become the - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
1: [[Image:Tsvetaeva.jpg|right]]
3: ...892]] – [[August 31]], [[1941]]) was a [[Russia]]n [[poet]] and [[writer]].
5: ...y|Acmeism]] and [[Russian Symbolist poetry|symbolism]].
8: ... cause her to identify herself with the Polish aristocracy.)
10: ... to become a [[pianist]] and thought her poetry was poor. - Edna St. Vincent Millay (2636 bytes)
1: ...al and Bohemian lifestyle and her many love affairs with both men and women.
3: ...[[Vassar College]]. After her graduation in 1917, she moved to New York City.
5: ...y]] in 1923, for ''The Harp-Weaver, and Other Poems''.
7: ... years her junior, for whom a number of her sonnets were written.
9: ...racy than [[Ezra Pound]] did for championing fascism."
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