“I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.” 830: Alice Paul One of the Main Leaders and Strategists of the Campaign to Pass the 19th Amendment to the United States’ Constitution Born: 11 January 1885, Mount Laurel,…
“Let us put our money together; let us use our money—and reap the benefits ourselves.” 829: Maggie L Walker The First Female Bank President to Charter a United States Bank Born: 15 July 1864, Richmond, Virginia, Confederate States of America (Present-day Richmond, Virginia, United States of America) Died: 15 December 1934, Richmond, Virginia, United States…
“I don’t wear men’s clothes, I wear my own clothes.” 822: Dr. Mary Edwards Walker The Only Woman to Ever Receive the Medal of Honor (United States) Born: 26 November 1832, Oswego, New York, United States of America Died: 21 February 1919, Oswego, New York, United States of America Mary was an abolitionist, women’s rights…
815: Naziq al-Abid Joan of Arc of the Arabs Born: 1898, Damascus, Ottoman Empire (Present-day Damascus, Syria) Died: 1959, Syria Also Spelled: Nazik Full Name: Nazik Khatim al-ʿAbid Bayhum Naziq was a Revolutionary and Suffragette born into a wealthy family. She spoke five languages, started the Syrian Red Crescent and Noor-al-Fayha (Light of Damascus, the…
“If even the withdrawal of this hero from public life has failed to calm your rage and you have chosen me as your target, I can say to you: you can do whatever you want to me, you can threaten my very existence, cowards that you are, but you cannot make me betray my respect…
712: Guglielma of Milan Preached a Feminized Version of Christianity Born: c.1210 AD, Kingdom of Bohemia (Present-day Czech Republic) OR Holy Roman Empire (Present-day Italy) Died: c. 1279 AD Milan, Holy Roman Empire (Present-day Milan, Italy) Guglielma also predicted the end of time and her own resurrection as the Holy Spirit Incarnate which made her…
“When we women, too, have weapons and training, we will be able to prove to all men that we have hands and feet and hearts like yours.” 675: Veronica Franco Poet and Courtesan Born: 1546, Venice, The Venitian Republic (Present-day Venice, Italy) Died: 1591, Venice, The Venitian Republic (Present-day Venice, Italy) Veronica’s mother was a…
“I wear my uniform with honor. It has the Order of Lenin on it. It has been covered with blood in battle. It is plain to see that with American women what is important is whether they wear silk underwear under their uniforms. What the uniform stands for, they have yet to learn.” 671: Major Lyudmila Pavlichenko…
657: Emily Howland The First Female Director of a US National Bank Born: 27 November 1827, New York, United States of America Died: 29 June 1929, Sherwood, New York, United States of America Emily was also a philanthropist, educator, and advocate for African American civil rights, temperance, and women’s suffrage. Emily was friends with Susan…
“Liberty is a better husband than love to many of us.” 656: Louisa May Alcott Little Women Author (Amongst Other Works) Born: 29 November 1832, Germantown, Pennsylvania, United States of America Died: 6 March 1888, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America Louisa was also a War Between the States Nurse at the Union Hotel Hospital in…