I feel it's important to keep a list like this, so our women know what kind of behavior not to imitate. Be sure to contribute!
1) Susan B. Anthony - a prominent, independent and well educated American civil rights leader who, along with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, led the effort to secure Women's suffrage in the United States.
2) Elizabeth Cady Stanton - a social activist and a leading figure of the early women's rights movement in the United States.
3) Abigail Adams - quoted as saying, "If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation."
4) Margaret Atwood - a Canadian novelist, poet, and literary critic.
5) Benazir Bhutto - a Pakistani politician, the first woman elected to lead a Muslim state, twice elected as Prime Minister of Pakistan, first in 1988 and again 1993.
6) Betty Friedan - feminist writer, psychologist and social researcher.
7) Angela Y. Davis - a socialist, philosopher, political activist and retired professor with the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
8) Roseanne Barr - actress, comedienne, writer, television producer and director.
9) Alanis Morissette - a Canadian-American singer-songwriter, record producer and actor.
10) Madonna - recording artist, actress and entrepreneur.
11) Madeleine K. Albright - the first woman to become a United States Secretary of State.
12) Mary Wollstonecraft - an eighteenth-century British writer, philosopher, and feminist.
13) Gloria Steinman - feminist, journalist, and social and political activist who became nationally recognized as a leader of, and media spokeswoman for, the Women's Liberation Movement in the late 1960s and 1970s.
14) Jane Fonda - actress, writer, political activist, former fashion model, and fitness guru.
15) Margaret Trudeau - the former wife of the late Pierre Trudeau, the 15th Prime Minister of Canada.
16) Golda Meir - the fourth Prime Minister of the State of Israel.
17) Maya Angelou - autobiographer and poet who has been called "America's most visible black female autobiographer" by scholar Joanne M. Braxton.
18) Isadora Duncan - a dancer, considered by many to be the creator of modern dance.
19) Eleanor Roosevelt - She supported the New Deal policies of her husband, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and became an advocate for civil rights.
20) Virginia Woolf - an English author, essayist, publisher, and writer of short stories, regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century.
21) Johanna Sigurdardottir - the current Prime Minister of Iceland.
22) Gloria Allred - lawyer noted for taking high-profile and often controversial cases.
23) Oprah - television host, actress, producer, and philanthropist, best known for her self-titled, multi-award winning talk show, which has become the highest-rated program of its kind in history.
24) Hillary Clinton - the 67th United States Secretary of State, serving in the administration of President Barack Obama.
1) Susan B. Anthony - a prominent, independent and well educated American civil rights leader who, along with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, led the effort to secure Women's suffrage in the United States.
2) Elizabeth Cady Stanton - a social activist and a leading figure of the early women's rights movement in the United States.
3) Abigail Adams - quoted as saying, "If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation."
4) Margaret Atwood - a Canadian novelist, poet, and literary critic.
5) Benazir Bhutto - a Pakistani politician, the first woman elected to lead a Muslim state, twice elected as Prime Minister of Pakistan, first in 1988 and again 1993.
6) Betty Friedan - feminist writer, psychologist and social researcher.
7) Angela Y. Davis - a socialist, philosopher, political activist and retired professor with the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
8) Roseanne Barr - actress, comedienne, writer, television producer and director.
9) Alanis Morissette - a Canadian-American singer-songwriter, record producer and actor.
10) Madonna - recording artist, actress and entrepreneur.
11) Madeleine K. Albright - the first woman to become a United States Secretary of State.
12) Mary Wollstonecraft - an eighteenth-century British writer, philosopher, and feminist.
13) Gloria Steinman - feminist, journalist, and social and political activist who became nationally recognized as a leader of, and media spokeswoman for, the Women's Liberation Movement in the late 1960s and 1970s.
14) Jane Fonda - actress, writer, political activist, former fashion model, and fitness guru.
15) Margaret Trudeau - the former wife of the late Pierre Trudeau, the 15th Prime Minister of Canada.
16) Golda Meir - the fourth Prime Minister of the State of Israel.
17) Maya Angelou - autobiographer and poet who has been called "America's most visible black female autobiographer" by scholar Joanne M. Braxton.
18) Isadora Duncan - a dancer, considered by many to be the creator of modern dance.
19) Eleanor Roosevelt - She supported the New Deal policies of her husband, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and became an advocate for civil rights.
20) Virginia Woolf - an English author, essayist, publisher, and writer of short stories, regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century.
21) Johanna Sigurdardottir - the current Prime Minister of Iceland.
22) Gloria Allred - lawyer noted for taking high-profile and often controversial cases.
23) Oprah - television host, actress, producer, and philanthropist, best known for her self-titled, multi-award winning talk show, which has become the highest-rated program of its kind in history.
24) Hillary Clinton - the 67th United States Secretary of State, serving in the administration of President Barack Obama.
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