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The first Japanese woman to go to college didn't have a choice. But the experience changed her - and she changed Japan in return.
Fannie Lou Hamer
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Marie Marvingt
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Kurmanjan Datka
A clever woman who rose from obscurity to become a political force, playing nations against each other to protect her people.
Tsuruhime Ohori
When invaders threatened her island home, she declared herself a living god, raised an army, and fought them tooth, nail, and occasional grenade.
Black Agnes
When the English laid siege to her castle home, this Scottish woman bedeviled them until they gave up.
Carolina Maria de Jesus
Brash, funny, and difficult, this mother of three wrote her way out of extreme poverty with her uncompromising look at Brazilian society - and was alternately lauded and berated for it.
Olga of Kiev
Brutal princess-turned-Christian saint who burnt down enemy towns using pigeons.
Gertrude Bell
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