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The woman you are looking at right there? Killed the hitman sent to kill her with her own bare hands.
More on her story here.
Susan Walters: Assassin's bane
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Dana Fischer
7-Year-Old Magic: the Gathering prodigy
And for those asking, yes, she's doing it in a cosplay outfit.Anita Sarkeesian
Feminist game theorist
This is a talk I was lucky enough to see live about a month ago. It’s delivered by Anita Sarkeesian, a feminist game theorist whose academic analysis of cultural shifts in the video gaming industry has led to harassment and death threats beyond imagining. This talk was her first public appearance after she fled her house due to said death threats. She is a brave human being and her talk is very worth watching.Hailey Fort
Builder of Shelters for the Homeless
Fort constructs mobile shelters and grows food to help out the homeless.Mary-Claire King
Geneticist, Human Rights Advocate, Single Mom
Geneticist Mary Claire-King has had an astounding career: she discovered the breast cancer gene; she definitively linked humans and chimpanzees; she’s used gene testing to identify the descendants of kidnapped children – and she’s done it all as a single mother.Nicole Ticea
Teenaged Inventor of a New HIV Test
In 2014, Nicole Ticea won first place in the British Columbia Regional Sanofi BioGENEius Challenge for her development of a faster, cheaper test for HIV.Kristin Armstrong
Three-Time Olympic Gold Medalist
Armstrong is the only cyclist to win three consecutive Olympic gold medals in the same discipline. Though a few other cyclists have won more medals in more disciplines, Armstrong also won while older than all of them, turning 43 the day after her win.Tura Satana
Tura Satana: Amazonian star of Russ Meyer’s cult classic film ‘Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!’
This woman had a hell of a life. After being gang-raped in her youth, she trained in martial arts and over the course of her life, exacted revenge on every one of her attackers. “I made a vow to myself that I would someday, somehow, get even with all of them. They never knew who I was until I told them.”
Furthermore: she was a pinup idol, a burlesque dancer, a movie star, and even supposedly turned down a marriage proposal from Elvis Presley.
Katherine Folsom
The Pro Skateboarder Who Teaches Ballet
She started skateboarding to get closer to her family. Now she competes against the best in the world as one of the oldest skaters, and only women, on the field.Marie Wilcox
The last fluent speaker of Wukchumni
The last fluent speaker of her language, she's spent years preserving and teaching it to others.Susan Walters
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