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Safiya al Bibissi
Safiya Al Balbissi walks assertively, like a queen. With great self-confidence and talent, she drives a Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) ambulance through the streets and alleys of Tulkarem Governorate. She has become a familiar sight for many Palestinians, although some people continue to raise astonished eyebrows when they see her behind the wheel.
Sima Azimi
In Afghanistan, this Wushu trainer teaches women martial arts - to compete, and to defend themselves.
Ann Gregory
“It was better for me to remember that the flaw was in the racist, not in myself.”
Mildred Dresselhaus
This physicist was the first female institute professor at MIT - by one estimate, she was author or co-author on more than 1,700 publications and articles.
Kristin Armstrong
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.
Selvi
Selvi escaped an abusive marriage she was forced into age 14. She went on to become South India's first female taxi driver, and an advocate to prevent other young girls from being forced to marry.
Gisella Perl
"I learned that [pregnant women] were all taken to the research block to be used as guinea pigs, and then two lives would be thrown into the crematorium. I decided that never again would there be a pregnant woman in Auschwitz.''
Constance Leathart
She was the first British woman outside London to get a pilot's license, and one of the first to join the Air Transport Auxiliary.
Keiko Fukuda
Keiko Fukuda was the only woman to ever be awarded the highest degree black belt in Judo — and she…
Cora Strayer
Miss Cora M. Strayer ran a detective agency on the South Side of Chicago in the early 1900s. She was awesome.
Lhakpa Sherpa
Lhakpa Sherpa has climbed Everest more than any other woman, but almost no-one knows about her.
Tierra Guinn
Phenomenally talented Tierra Guinn is already a rocket engineer - and working with NASA on what will be one of the biggest rockets in history.
Marie Wilcox
The last fluent speaker of her language, she's spent years preserving and teaching it to others.
Ridhi Tariyal
Tariyal, along with her friend Stephen Gire, has co-founded a startup company, NextGen Jane, to gather medical information from the blood in tampons.
Angela Mao
Making thirty movies in the '70s, Mao is considered by some "the first female kung fu star" and "the first woman to star in her own action films without having to defer to a male star".