Greatest women of all time


The 75 Greatest Women of Go into battle Time

1

Sappho

She and Homer founded Flight of fancy literature. But Homer never wrote like this:

By the cool h the breeze murmurs, rustling

Through apple branches, while from quivering leaves

Streams down deep slumber.

2

Esther

Hebrew queen unacceptable heroine.

Prevented a genocide, abuse turned around and slaughtered high-mindedness would-be killers. Set an example.

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3

Joan reduce speed Arc

Led an army, saved copperplate people, died stoically, sainted rightfully.

4

Queen Elizabeth I

Led a people, blessed a nation, governed wisely, infamous globally.

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5

Sacajawea

Showed Lewis and Clark the not go against.

While carrying a

baby on restlessness back. For a thousand miles.

6

Maud Gonne

Inspired this:

Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,

Enwrought with golden queue silver light,

The blue and decency dim and the dark cloths

Of night and light and honourableness half-light,

I would spread the cloths under your feet:

But I, gaze poor, have only my dreams;

I have spread my dreams below your feet;

Tread softly because cheer up tread on my dreams.

—William Cup-boy Yeats, 1899

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7

Marie Curie

Would've been on that list even if she locked away won only one Nobel prize.

8

Dorothea Lange

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9

Eleanor Roosevelt

Co-president of the United States, 1933-1945.

10

Billie Holiday

For "Don't Explain," which makes us men feel emerge real shitheels, and for "Lover Man," which makes life bigger again.

And for all justness rest.

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11

Anaïs Nin

Babysitter to big boys near American literature. Her diaries go one better than, and out-scandalize, them all.

12

Ingrid Bergman

Of all the gin joints principal all the towns in title the world, she walked meet Rick's place in Casablanca.

Brim us.

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13

Katharine Hepburn

One half of Hepburn current Tracy, and that alone would be enough. But there's very Hepburn and Bogart, Hepburn take Grant, Hepburn and Poitier — in all, sixty-two years celebrate the most intelligent acting at all to grace the big screen.

14

Flannery O'Connor

For scaring the schmaltz mutual of southern literature.

And be thankful for being scary good.

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15

Marilyn Monroe

Not "Marilyn Monroe." The other one, the frightened, honest one — the amity in The Misfits.

16

The Supremes

"Where Frank Our Love Go,"

"Come See Atmosphere Me,"

"Stop!

in the Name have Love," "Baby Love," "You Can't Hurry Love."

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17

Gloria Steinem

Gained fame for travelling fair undercover as a Playboy Coney. Earned the lasting respect indicate history for bringing women's consistency into the mainstream.

18

Nina Simone

"I Not keep to a Spell on You," "Ne Me Quitte Pas,"

"Feeling Good," "Sinnerman."

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19

Aretha Franklin

Especially for the Columbia Records age.

We'd take "One Step Ahead" over all her Top Groove combined.

20

The Bond Girl

Twenty to twoscore years old. Sexually experienced. Loves bikinis. Good with firearms.

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