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The actual hero of the Ali Baba myth, this slave girl saves the titular character by singlehandedly dispatching the forty thieves - without him even knowing.
Mary Lacy
This self-described "undutiful daughter" posed as a man to become the world's first female shipwright.
Soraya Tarzi
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Catalina de Erauso
After escaping from a convent, this swashbuckler had the strength to chase her dreams: which were apparently to drink, fight, and womanize.
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Pistol-packing, liquor-swigging, 6'2" black postal carrier/babysitter of the Wild West.
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Cross-dressing Queen of Thieves who flouted social norms and had plays written about her.