Greatest women in history?

Question

Can someone please give me a list of great women, such as Marilyn Monroe. Women who were very outspoken and opiniated and women i can find clever quotes of.

[and please dont say marilyn was a w***e because fyi she was very intelligent and full of life]

thankkss

Answer 1

rosa parks

margaret thatcher

queen elizabeth

nefertiti

Mary Mother of God

Joan of Ark

Marie Antoinette

Princess Diana

Mother Theresa

--marilyn monroe may have been a great celebrity persona but she commited suicide and shouldn't be considered a great example to women today.

Answer 2

RdRedWine and others have only included pale, pink or purple women in the list.  Here are some brown women

Benazir Bhutto

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benazir_Bhu...

Indira Ghandi

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indira_ghan...

Answer 3

I think it is really too difficult to list all the great women of history, because there have been so many.  However, some memorable quotes from women I like include the following,

Queen Elizabeth I of england "I will have in this land but one mistress and no master" (on her disincination to marry).

Abigail Adams, wife of John Adams, "IAll men would be tyrants if they could ..that your s*x are naturally tryannical is aTruth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute."

Mary Wollstonecraft (author of A vindication of the rights of women) "The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger."

Maria Weston Chapman, an abolitionist, who during a speech by William Lloyd Garison before a racially mixed group in Boston, when an angry mob gathered outside, said "If this is the last bulwark of freedom, we may as well die here as anywhere."

Susan B. Anthony, one of the leaders of the campaign for women's suffrage in America in the 19th century, in a speech at a teacher's convention: "Gentlemen, do you not see that so long as society says that a woman is incompetent to be a lawyer, a minister or a doctor, but has ample ability to be a teacher, every man of you who chooses this profession tacitly acknowledges that he has no more brains than a woman?"

Harriet Tubman: "I was the conductor of the underground railroad for eight years and I can say what most conductors can't say - I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger."

Sojourner Truth, former slave and campaigner for women's rights and black rights "If colored men get their rights and not colored women theirs, you see the colored men will be masters over the women, and it will be just as bad as it was before."

Dr Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, the 19th century Britsh woman physican, only treated women and children.  When she got a letter from a gentleman asking if gout was in her line, she replied "Dear sir, gout is very much in my line, gentlemen are not."

Madame C. J. Walker, America's first self-made female millionaire. "I am a woman who came from the cotton fields of the shouth.  I was promoted from there to the washtub.  Then I was promoted to the cook kitchen, and from there I promoted myself into the business of manufacturing hair goods and preperations...I have built my factory on my own ground."

" I want to say to every black woman present, don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come...Get up and make them!"

Edith Cavell, the english nurse who was shot by the Germans during WW1 for helping British soldiers to escape "Patriotism is not enough.  I must have in my heart no hatred towards anyone."

Nancy, Lady Astor(first english woman M.P) "I used to dread getting old because i thought I would not be able to do all the things I wanted to do, but now that I am older I find that I don't want to do them."

"I married beneath me.  All women do."

Dorothy Parker, writer "The girl speaks eighteen languages and can't say no in any of them"

"Brevity is the soul of lingerie."

"If I had any decency, I'd be dead.  Most of my friends are."

Anita Loos, writer "I'm furious about women's liberationionists.  They keep getting up on soapboxes and proclaiming that women are brighter than men.  that's true, but it should be kept very quiet or it ruins the whole racket."

Lillian Gish, actress "You know, when I went into the movies Lionely Barrymore played my grandfather.  Later he played my father and finally he played my husband.  If he had lived, i'm sure I would have played his mother.  that's the way it is in Hollywood.  The men get younger and the women get older."

Mae West, actress and playwright, on marriage "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet."

On being told that a new male acquaintance was 6 foot seven inches "Let's forget about the six feet and talk about the seven inches."

"Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache."

Katherine Hepuburn,actress "If you survive long enough you're revered - rather like an old tomb"

"I don't care what's written about me so long as it isn't true."

I don't agree that Rosa Parks never said anything memorable.  When the story got around that the only reason she refused to give up her seat on the bus was that she was tired (she had actually been active in the Civil Rights movement for many years) she said "The only tired i was, was tired of giving in."

Answer 4

Dorothy Dandridge

Princess Diana

Maya Angelou

Cleopatra

Amelia Earhart

Joan of Arc

Frida Kahlo

Oprah Winfrey

Harriet Tubman

Rosa Parks

Clara Barton

Mother Theresa

Margaret Thatcher

just to name a few...

Answer 5

Elizabeth Cady Stanton wrote speeches, which were given by Susan B Anthony--they started the 70 year fight for womens rights in the 19th and early 20th century.

It got you the right to vote

in fact it got you thishttp://www.flickr.com/photos/sassy_red_h...

I also liked Alice Paul, who in England during that movement said "Action, not words!"

Look up the first womens rights convention, held in Seneca Falls New York--these were ordinary people who just got together, discussed what they thought was wrong, wrote it down as their mission (The Declaration Of Sentiments) and then went out and made it happen ((even if it took 70 years.

they kept at it, and won

Thats the finest example I know of people sticking up for themselves and not just being some parrot-headed sheep who deserve nothing because they never try and just make such eager willing victims (like people now do).

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Also Amelia Earhart

Answer 6

Helen Keller

Answer 7

Catherine the Great

Queen Elizabeth...

Other monarchs who actually did something...

My history education is very Eurocentric... sorry.

Marie Antoinette doesn't fit into this category, she was just the bride of an inept King.

Answer 8

Marilyn Monroe?  Please explain what she did for women in history?  A great actress and got to sleep with JFK.  But if you want that kind of woman we might as well throw in Jane Fonda.  Granted they both helped women and all, but I can think of a lot more worthy people.

http://www.greatwomen.org/

Answer 9

MARY,   MOTHER OF JESUS,

   NO ONE ELSE IS WORTHY TO BE MENTIONED.

Answer 10

Why was Marilyn Monroe  great? She was just a S****y little actress, with a very pathetic personal life.

Answer 11

''I am obnoxious to each carping tongue,Who says my hand a needle better fits." Anne Bradstreet wrote. she is the first published poet in america.

''let us separate,they are unworthy to be our brethen," Abigail Adams wrote to John Adams.she was then wife of a statesman.

Answer 12

Margaret Sanger - the founder of Planned Parenthood and a major advocate of birth control. During prohibitions she smuggled diaphragms into America on ships carrying illegal alcohol

Marie Curry - Noble prize winner along with her husband for their work with polonium

Theodora - Byzantine Empress who reformed women's rights and instituted the death penalty for men who commited rape

Answer 13

katherine hepburn was a feminist before feminism

i also like maya angelou and pamela grier

marilyn vos savant is also the smartest PERSON in the world to this day...