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Random Princesses
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When a soldier raped her, this woman tossed him in a well and threw rocks at him until he died.
Bella Abzug
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Phoolan Devi
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Lyudmila Pavlichenko
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Khutulun
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Marguerite de la Rocque
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Mary Lacy
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