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America's ostensible first female self-made millionaire was a black beauty magnate who did it all for her daughter.
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Harper was an entrepreneur who essentially created the modern hair salon, which she grew into a franchise of hundreds of stores across the world.
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America had Al Capone. Sydney had Kate Leigh and Tilly Devine - who *hated* each other.
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Born without arms or legs, this artist learned to write, sew, and paint with her mouth - and came to work for kings and queens.
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This brilliant poet rose from illegitimacy and poverty to become one of the luminaries of her age - until she flew too close to the sun.
Anne Hutchinson
This uneducated rebel preacher upstaged New England magistrates so much that they founded Harvard University in part to prevent women like her from gaining power.
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Led colony of escaped slaves and protected them from the English using borderline supernatural abilities.
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She traded a life of privilege for one spent fighting for justice on both literal and political battlefields so tirelessly that even exiling her five times couldn't keep her down.