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This legendary pockmarked poet sang truth to power and was killed for it, becoming an enduring symbol of resistance.
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Roundly-despised and unfairly-maligned seductress of the bible who ran afoul of the wrong priests.
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Sister Rosetta Tharpe
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Toregene Khatun
Although her tribe was destroyed and she was forced into an unwanted marriage, this indomitable woman came to run the world's largest empire - with a woman as her companion.
Gudit
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Fredegund
Possibly the most cartoonishly evil woman to have ever existed, this Merovingian queen was an endless source of assassination attempts - including, on one memorable occasion, her own young daughter.
Zenobia
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