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- Rosa Luxemburg (23905 bytes)
2: ...nist Party of Germany]] and took part in an unsuccessful [[revolution]] in Berlin in January, [[1919]...
6: ...then Russian-controlled [[Congress Poland]]. Sources differ on the year of her birth - she gave her bi...
8: ...s managed to meet in secret; Rosa joined one of these groups.
10: ...Middle Ages]] and economic and stock exchange crises.
12: ...lly able to gain seats in the [[Reichstag]]. But despite their revolutionary talk, the socialist membe... - Elizabeth Cady Stanton (4406 bytes)
2: ...y [[women's rights]] movement in the [[United States]].
4: ...nd women are created equal. She also proposed a resolution, that was voted upon and carried, demandin...
6: ...re so prominent. This anthology reached six volumes by various writers in 1922. Stanton was also act...
9: ...t sex. It is produced by the same cause, and manifested very much in the same way''."
12: ...of the newsletter ''The Revolution.'' Stanton suggested that solutions to abortion would be found, at ... - Mary Cassatt (9047 bytes)
2: ...ndash; [[June 14]], [[1926]]) was an [[United States|American]] painter.
4: ...urgh]], she was the daughter of a well-do-to businessman. Cassatt grew up in an environment that value...
6: ...llow male students, and the slow pace of her courses, she decided to study the [[Old Masters|old maste...
8: ...ishop of Pittsburgh commissioned her to paint copies of paintings in Italy, after which she traveled a...
16: ...impressionist circle until [[1886]], she remained friends with Degas and [[Berthe Morisot]]. - Ninon de l'Enclos (3420 bytes)
8: ...the literary arts. In her early thirties she was responsible for encouraging the young [[Moli貥]], an...
10: ...eden|Christina]], former queen of [[Sweden]]. Impressed, Christina wrote to [[Cardinal Mazarin]] on Ni...
12: ...in a stock of provisions, but not of pleasures: these should be gathered day by day."
14: ...the salon of Ninon de l'Enclos despite other locales in the past. During this time she was a friend of... - Nina Hamnett (3501 bytes)
3: ...in [[Tenby]], [[Pembrokeshire]], [[Wales|South Wales]], [[United Kingdom]]. From [[1906]] to [[1907]] ...
5: ...ni, painter and Jew". In addition to making close friends with [[Amedeo Modigliani]], [[Pablo Picasso]], [[...
7: ...' in Paris. Back in England, she taught at the [[Westminster Technical Institute]] from [[1917]] to [[...
11: ...to shown here is a [[1918]] portrait of a very modest Nina Hamnett painted by Fry.
13: ...e town, [[Augustus John]], and later another [[Wales|Welshman]], the poet [[Dylan Thomas]]. - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
4: ... image_caption=[[Novelist]] and [[Philosopher]], best known for her [[philosophy]] of [[Objectivist ph...
11: ...press goal of her literature to showcase such heroes. She believed:
12: #That man must choose his values and actions by reason;
14: #That no one has the right to seek values from others by physical force, or impose ideas on...
19: ...m Ayn's cousin in which she claims to have been present when Ayn chose the name Rand from a typewriter... - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
1: ...74]] - [[July 27]], [[1946]]) was an [[United States|American]] [[writer]], [[poet]], [[feminism|femin...
13: ...rted by a stipend from her brother Michael's business.
17: ...returned to France and volunteered to drive supplies to French hospitals; they were later honored by t...
19: ...eight, she had a large circle of friends and tirelessly promoted herself. Her judgments in literature ...
21: ...o "wives" to chat. Alice was four foot eleven inches tall, and Gertrude was five foot one inch (Grahn ... - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
5: ...the tension in women's private emotions; she bridges the mutually contradictory schools of [[Acmeist p...
8: ...) concert pianist, with some [[Poland|Polish]] ancestry on her mother's side. (This latter fact was to...
10: ...ather was kind, but deeply wrapped up in his studies and distant from his family. He was also still de...
12: ...ls she acquired Italian, French and German languages.
14: ...d critic [[Maximilian Voloshin]], whom Tsvetaeva described after his death in 'A Living Word About a L... - Suzanne Valadon (4068 bytes)
4: ...artre]] quarter of [[Paris]] she pursued her interest in art.
8: ...rre-Auguste Renoir]] and [[Pierre Puvis de Chavannes]], and she had affairs with all of them. The mos...
10: ..., Valadon received acclaim and some financial success during her lifetime.
12: Despite her achievements, she lived in the shadows of...
14: ...was, however, best known for her candid female nudes. - Edna St. Vincent Millay (2636 bytes)
1: ...also known for her unconventional and Bohemian lifestyle and her many love affairs with both men and w...
3: ...ters, Edna (who was called "Vincent" by her close friends and family), Norma, and Kathleen then moved to [[...
7: ...r and took primary care of domestic responsibilities. They lived in Austerlitz, New York, at a farmhou...
13: Her best known poem might be "First Fig" (1920):
17: But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends-- - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
7: ...n [[1904]], she and her sister, [[Vanessa Bell|Vanessa]], moved to a home in [[Bloomsbury, London|Bloo...
9: ...ained some artists in this category, such as [[James Joyce]].
11: ...motives of characters, and the various possibilities of fractured narrative and chronology. She has, i...
13: ...itation on the themes of flux of time and life, presented simultaneously as corrosion and rejuvenation...
15: ...do. You have given me the greatest possible happiness... I can't fight it any longer, I know that I am... - Jackie Cochran (7825 bytes)
1: ...[August 7]], [[1980]]) was a pioneer [[United States|American]] [[aviatrix]].
4: ...s and driving personality to obtain a job at a prestigious salon in [[Saks Fifth Avenue]] department ...
6: ...ed Press]] named her "''Woman of the Year in Business''."
8: ...ho recognized the value of publicity for her business. Calling her line of cosmetics "''Wings''," she ...
10: ... adopted to avoid dealing with the reality of her estranged and impoverished family. - Bessie Coleman (4340 bytes)
1: ...e world. Ms. Coleman was married briefly to Charles Wilson Pankey.
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4: ...ed such materials as chalk and pencils. Nevertheless, Coleman graduated from eighth grade and briefly...
6: ...turning home from [[World War I]]. They told stories about flying in the war and Coleman started to fa...
8: ... of the Chicago Defender, and Jesse Binga, a real estate promoter. Coleman received financial backing ... - Dorothea Dix (5868 bytes)
2: ...enormous "museums of madness" that served as the deserving targets for later reformers’ zeal.
6: ...number of insane inmates in disgusting circumstances, which led her to approach the [[Massachusetts]] ...
8: ...n the mentally ill is more complex and more interesting than this legend. Surviving a childhood of [[...
10: ...r. In [[England]], she spent a year living on the estate of the Rathbone family, eminent [[Quaker]] re...
12: ...f daily life. When she returned to the United states she brought an enthusiasm for this idea with her. - Florence Nightingale (15657 bytes)
3: ...rse|nursing]]. Each year, the [[International Nurses Day]] is celebrated on her birth anniversary.
7: ...[[Parthenope]] for the old city that is now [[Naples]]). A brilliant and strong-willed woman, Florence...
9: ...amily in [[1845]], evoking intense anger and distress from her family, particularly her mother.
11: ...gaged the support of [[Charles Villiers]], then president of the [[Poor Law Board]]. This led to her ...
13: ... of medical care and by the commitment and practises of the sisters. - Janis Joplin (8673 bytes)
2: ...sh; [[October 4]], [[1970]]) was an American [[blues]]-influenced [[rock and roll|rock]], [[R&B]], and...
4: ..., she began singing blues and [[folk music]] with friends.
6: ...yled herself in part after her female blues heroines, and in part after the [[beat poet]]s. She left T...
8: ...m being withheld until after their subsequent success.
10: ...one of the leading musical stars of the late Sixties. - Bessie Smith (7284 bytes)
1: [[Image:BessieSmith.jpg|thumb|250px|Bessie Smith photographed by Carl Van Vechten]]
2: ... [[USA]] was the most popular and successful [[blues]] singer of [[1920s]] and [[30s]], and a huge inf...
5: ...to sing but probably helped her develop a stage presence. Smith began developing her own act around [...
7: ...s around, most notably [[Louis Armstrong]], [[James P. Johnson]], [[Joe Smith]], [[Charlie Green]], a...
9: ...panied by members of [[Fletcher Henderson]]'s orchestra, the Hall Johnson Choir, and a string section-... - Sheryl Crow (8611 bytes)
1: ...he_Very_Best_of_Sheryl_Crow.jpg|thumb|''The Very Best of Sheryl Crow'' album released October 2003]]
3: ...uri]], [[United States|USA]]) is an American [[blues rock]] [[singer]], [[guitarist]] and song writer....
7: ...n she moved to [[Los Angeles, California|Los Angeles]] and found work as a [[backup vocalist]] for man...
9: ...d other musicians to form what they called "The Tuesday Night Music Club." They would get together and...
11: ...o"; Record of the Year for "All I Wanna Do"; and Best New Artist. - Tori Amos (27672 bytes)
3: ... wider public for a [[dance]] [[remix]] of "[[Professional Widow]]", her sole single to reach number o...
7: ...t single, released as a 7" pressed for family and friends. At around this time she adopted the name "Tori,...
10: ... the song is attributed to a band called "Tess Makes Good" with "additional vocals by Ellen Amos".
12: ===''Little Earthquakes''===
13: ...anying singles were "Me and a Gun", "Silent All These Years", "China", "Winter" and "[[Crucify (song)|... - Mary Read (2833 bytes)
1: ...entury]] who disguised herself as a man and later escaped hanging through an unplanned pregnancy.
3: ...h the military commission named The Three Horseshoes.
5: ...he notorious Calico [[Jack Rackham]] and his mistress, [[Anne Bonny]].
7: ...am who was thrilled to be on a ship with two females.
9: ... Many believe Rackham?s crew didn?t put up much resistance because they were drunk and passed out in ...
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