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INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY

Mary Wollstonecraft wrote the most significant book in the early feminist movement. “A Vindication of the Rights of Women” .

Mary Wollstonecraft

• One of the most popular female authors Jane Austen wrote several novels, which remain highly popular today. These include “Pride and Prejudice” “Emma” and “Northanger Abbey”.

Jane Austen

“A British suffragette, Emily Pankhurst dedicated her life to the promotion of women’s rights. After she died a law giving all women over 21 the right to vote.”

Emily Pankhurst

“Marie Curie was the first women to receive the Nobel Prize and the first person to win it for 2 separate categories.”

Marie Curie

At the age of 19 months Helen became deaf and blind. Overcoming the frustration of losing both sight and hearing she campaigned tirelessly on behalf of deaf and blind people

Helen Keller

• Wife and political aide of American president F.D.Roosevelt. In her own right Eleanor made a significant contribution to the field of human rights,

Eleanor Roosevelt

• Dorothy Hodgkin 1910-1994

• Awarded the Nobel prize for chemistry Dorothy Hodgkin work on critical discoveries of the structure of both penicillin and later insulin.

Dorothy Hodgkin

• Rosa Parks refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man indirectly led to some of the most significant civil rights legislation of American history.

Rosa Parks

• First female prime minister of India.

Indira Gandhi

• The first female Prime minister of Great Britain, Mrs Thatcher defined a decade.

Margaret Thatcher

• Marilyn rose from childhood poverty to become one of the most iconic film legends.

Marilyn Monroe

• “Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.”

Anne Frank

• Billie Jean King was one of the greatest female tennis champions who battled for equal pay for women.

Billie Jean King

• Benazir Bhutto was the first female prime minister of a Muslim country. She helped to move Pakistan from a dictatorship to democracy in 1977.

Benazir Bhutto

• -• Influential talk show

host, Oprah Winfrey was the first women to own her own talk show host.

Oprah Winfrey

• Princess Diana combined the appeal of a Royal princess with her humanitarian charity work.

Diana- Princess of Wales

Inspirational Quotes• "If you want something said, ask a man; if you want

something done, ask a woman." ~ Margaret Thatcher

"Men who treat women as helpless and charming playthings deserve women who treat men as delightful and generous bank accounts." ~ Author Unknown

"There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers." —Susan B. Anthony