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Sor Juana and Lyudmila Pavlichenko get their turn in the sun!
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Sor Juana Inés de La Cruz
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United Hawaii under one rule, abolished ancient taboos, and led negotiations with the fledgling United States.
Nellie Bly
Daring journalist who infiltrated insane asylums, exposed slavery rings, and raced around the world in under 80 days.
Luisa Capetillo
In 1915, this rowdy Puerto Rican activist was arrested for wearing pants in public. It wouldn't be the last time she wore pants, or got arrested.
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.
Fredegund
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Te Puea Herangi
The reluctant royal who became the Maori's greatest leader.
Josefina Guerrero
Let her leprosy go untreated for years to make herself the perfect spy in the Japan-occupied Philippines - soldiers wouldn't touch her, so she could slip right through.
Onorata Rodiani
When an unrequited admirer began threatening her, this early fresco painter became one of history's first warrior artists.
Nana Asma'u
Massively educated princess who started all-female gang of itinerant teachers, who would roam the land and educate unsuspecting passersby.
Thákane
When her deadbeat brothers demanded the impossible, this South African princess carried through, and slayed a dragon.