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Cross-dressing Queen of Thieves who flouted social norms and had plays written about her.
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When her husband unexpectedly died, she rolled up her sleeves and became one of the greatest authors of the age to keep food on the table. She wrote passionate defenses of her gender (and military treatises!) that were centuries ahead of their time.
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Chaste and virtuous woman spends life assuming she's better than her more sex-positive neighbor, and for this haughtiness becomes in…
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Agnodice
After disguising herself as a man to be the physician women needed, she was put on trial - and won.
Hester Stanhope
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Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti
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