Here you’ll find Feminists, Suffragettes, Women’s Suffrage Advocates (yes, there’s a difference between the two), and people–both men and women–who advocated and pushed for a better life for women the world round, all throughout history
644: Martha Borthwick Cheney Most Remembered for Being Frank Lloyd Wright’s Mistress Born: 19 June 1869, Boone, Iowa, United States of America Died: 15 August 1914, Spring Green, Wisconsin, United States of America Also Known As: Mamah Cheney Martha was previously married with two children, while Frank was still married with six. Though Frank was…
“Woman’s ability to earn money is a better protection against the tyranny and brutality of man than her ability to vote.” 627: Victoria Woodhull The First Woman to Run for United States President Born: 23 September 1838, Homer, Ohio, United States of America Died: 9 June 1927, Bredon, Worcestershire, United Kingdom Victoria was a women’s…
618: Clementine Churchill So Much More Than Winston’s Wife Born: 1 April 1885, Mayfair, Westminster, London, United Kingdom Died: 12 December 1977, Knightsbridge, London, United Kingdom Nobody knows for certain who Clementine’s father was (her aristocratic parents were notorious for having affairs and hating one another, and her “father” left her mother when she was…
“[My mother] was reliving 1998, when she wouldn’t let me out of her sight. She was replaying those weeks when she stayed by my bed, night after night, because I, too, was suicidal. The shame, the scorn, and the fear that had been thrown at her daughter left her afraid that I would take my…
542: Faustina the Elder Roman Empress Born: c.90-105 AD, Rome, Roman Empire (Present-day Rome, Italy) Died: 140 AD, Cappadocia, Roman Empire, (Present-day Cappadocia, Italy) Also Known As: Annia Galeria Faustina Faustina was the wife of Antoninus Pius. Unlike most Emperors and Empresses of Rome, Faustina and Antoninus really loved each other and ruled over a…
Sun and moon have no light left, earth is dark, Our women’s world is sunk so deep, who can help us? Jewelry sold to pay this trip across the seas, Cut off from my family I leave my native land. Unbinding my feet I clean out a thousand years of poison, With heated heart arouse…
“Common charity, that is, feeding and clothing people, I am beginning to look upon as wicked! Not in its intention, of course, but in its carelessness and its results, which certainly are to destroy people’s character and make them poorer and poorer. If it could only be drummed into the rich that what the poor…
Constance’s advice to women interesting in joining the revolution? “Dress suitably in short skirts and strong boots, leave your jewels in the bank, and buy a revolver.” 440: Constance Markievicz The First Woman Elected to Britain’s Parliament But She Refused to Take Her Seat Born: 4 February 1868, Westminster, London, United Kingdom (Though she was…
“Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel. It gives woman a feeling of freedom and self-reliance. It makes her feel as if she…
411: Mary Agnes Chase Botanist and Social Activist Born: 29 April 1869, Iroquois County, Illinois, United States of America Died: 24 September 1963, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America Mary worked at the US Department of Agriculture and the Smithsonian Institution. For the USDA, she began working as a botanical illustrator before rising higher within…