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When the most powerful man in the world made plans on her country, she: turned down his marriage proposal, destroyed his armies, and defiled his head so famously that she became legend for centuries thereafter.
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Led colony of escaped slaves and protected them from the English using borderline supernatural abilities.
Fannie Lou Hamer
This uneducated, impoverished activist suffered unbelievable abuse in her journey to be able to vote -- but that did not stop her.
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The "Last of the Aboriginal Tasmanians" (she wasn't) used brains, brawn, and sheer will to carve a place for herself, even as the world was collapsing around her.
Marguerite de la Rocque
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Tirgatao
Abandoned and imprisoned, this real-life Amazon took back the life she had stolen away.
Emmy Noether
Revolutionized the field of mathematics, yet was persecuted for being Jewish and paid a pittance for her visionary teaching work.
Marsha P. Johnson
This cheery godmother of trans civil rights masked a dark past of abuse.