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Lolita
The poster child for childhood abuse, nobody should ever make a kids' movie about her.

Xtabay
Chaste and virtuous woman spends life assuming she's better than her more sex-positive neighbor, and for this haughtiness becomes in…

Pasiphaƫ
This mythical queen gave birth to the minotaur and cursed her unfaithful husband with the world's weirdest magic STD -- but was her whole story just a smear campaign?

Sacajawea
One of the most famous women in American history, this hyper-capable Shoshone woman walked across America with a baby strapped to her back, in order to map it.

Katie Sandwina
Champion weightlifter, suffragette, mom - this "Lady Hercules" did it all.

Timoclea
When a soldier raped her, this woman tossed him in a well and threw rocks at him until he died.

Molly Craig
The daughter of an aboriginal woman and a white man, her race led her to be kidnapped by the Australian government - only for her to escape and walk across the continent to get home... twice.

Khawlah bint al-Azwar
When Byzantine forces captured her brother, this warrior poet donned the outfit of a black knight and went on a bloody rescue mission.

Olympias of Macedon
The much-maligned woman fought tooth and nail to position her son, Alexander, to become "the Great" - and herself in the process.

Takeko Nakano
When the end of an era was at hand, this samurai woman refused to go gently.