Who are some powerful women?

Question

They could be dead, alive, poets, singers, actresses, ect. the one requirement i have is that they are females. please help!

Answer 1

My mother.

Oh and Waris Diri- brought a lot of light to FGM in Africa.

Second the comment about Quentin Bryce-  not only Queensland's governor, but the next Governor-General of Australia.

Answer 2

they are the womean who relly got strong heart, some of the women they feel in love easy, by just looking at the person, a strong women who dont feel in love easy. only when she realy need that person and the perosn need her.

Answer 3

Look up women power lifters.

Answer 4

-hilary clinton

-rosa parks

-harriet tubman

-marilyn monroe

-emily dickinson

-Barbara Walters

-Susan B. Anthony

-Lucy Stone

-Mary Church Terrell

-Alice Paul

-Helen Keller

-Margaret Sanger

-Mary McLeod Bethune

-Eleanor Roosevelt

-Betty Friedan

-Gloria Steinem

-Oprah

-Maya Angalou

-Joan of ark

-Cleopatra

-Helen of troy--she had a whole war started over her

-Queen Elizabeth I

just to name a few

Answer 5

Oprah, Gail (Oprahs best friend) Barbara Walters, Hilary Clinton, Alanis Morriset, Mother Teresa, Sinade O'Conner,

Answer 6

what kind of a question is that? stop qq'ing a bout how OP men are in society

Answer 7

Hillary Clinton, Condoleeza Rice, Margaret Thatcher, Queen Elizabeth, Queen Victoria... the list is endless!

Answer 8

I think Oprah will be a good example

Answer 9

Margaret Thatcher

Oprah Winfrey

Susan B Anthony

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Alice Paul

Margret Sanger

Betty Freidan

Gloria Steinham

Barbra Walters

http://www.nypost.com/seven/06012008/new...

http://encarta.msn.com/list_10mostpowerf...

http://www.timeinc.net/fortune/conferenc...

http://womenshistory.about.com/od/rulers...

http://www.golfforwomen.com/players/2008...

Answer 10

Oprah Winfrey

Answer 11

Hatesheout ( The first and only egyption pharo)

Jone of ark (men followed her every word)

Mary Mother Of God ( Many pray to her)

Oprah( the most watched wommen and opions valued)

Fretia Carlo ( A wommen who expressed her art values)

Queen Elizabeth ( Lead the british against the spanish when they tried to invade)

Answer 12

Oprah and Maya Angelou

Answer 13

Here's some names that you don't see every day

Boadicea..a British Celtic warrior from Roman Times

Cleopatra..Egyptian princess

Deborah...judge in the Bible

Catherine Medici-- a queen of France

Laura Brassi (1711-1778) was the first woman to become a physics professor at a European university

Queen Liliuokalani the last reigning Hawaiian monarch before the US made Hawaii a territory.

Veronica Franco...Italian poet, scholar and influential courtesan (watch the movie Dangerous Beauty for her story)

Hua Mulan 12th Century Chinese warrior (yes the one shown in the Disney movie)

Lucy Stone suffragist and first woman in the US to keep her own name

Elizabeth Blackwell  first woman MD in the USA

Rebecca Lee Crumpler first Black woman MD in the US

Harriet Tubman abolitionist and suffragist and Union Spy

Aphra Behn ...one of the first English women professional writers and a British spy.

Grace O'Malley  Irish privateer (pirate)

Madame CJ Walker, first black woman millionaire

Mary Fields...stagecoach rider in Montana, and 1st black woman to work for the US Postal Service

Margaret Mitchell one of the first women to successfully mine for gold in the Yukon

Nujood Ali, the brave 10 year old Yemenese girl whose father gave her hand in marriage to a man 3 times her age. Why is she noteworthy? She successfully DIVORCED that man and by doing so brought the world's attention to this barbaric violation of human rights

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/fron...

and my personal favorite:

Dorothy Fuldheim, (1843-1989)  a Cleveland, Ohio woman, was the first woman to have her own news commentary show in the USA. She started her TV news career in 1947 at 54, an age where nowadays women on air are expected had long retired! Prior to that, she was a radio commentator.

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

I'm also attaching a list of other first by American women...

Answer 14

Quentin Bryce, a former barrister, academic, and s*x Discrimination Commissioner and the current Governor of Queensland.  She sets a great example for Australian women.

http://www.abc.net.au/cgi-bin/common/pri...

Answer 15

maya angelou (poet, actress, playwright, writer, civil rights activist)

wangari maathai (kenyan nobel prize winner)

Answer 16

Maya Angelou, Hillary Clinton, Condelessa Rice, Oprah, Ella Fitzgerald, Jackie O, Michelle Obama

Answer 17

There have been numerous women throughout history who have excelled in all fields.  The poet Sappho for instance was the most highly esteemed poet in ancient Greece next to Homer. Marusaki Shikibu, one of many esteemed Japanese woman writers of the 10th century wrote what is often refered too as the world's first full novel 'The Tale of Genjii'.  Marie de France was a well-known and greatly admired French poet of the 12th century.  The 14th century writer Christine de Pisan was the first professional woman writer that we know of. Aphra Behn was the first professional woman playwright in England.  In more modern times, Jane Austen,t he Brontes, George Eliot, and many others have been notable.  Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slaverly novel 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' was the most influential novel of the 19th century.

There have been highly influential churchwomen throughout history. Hilda of Whitby,  Hildegarde of Bingen, Catherine of Sienna, and Teresa of Avila come to mind.

Women who have been famous as military leaders include Boudicca, Aethelflaed (the Lady of the Mercians) Matilda of Tuscany, Joan of Arc, among many others.

Powerful rulers who were women include the female Pharoah Hatshepsut, Cleopatra of Egypt, Empress Wu of China, Queen Elizabeth I of England, Catherine di Medici, who was regent of France during the reigns of two of her sons, Queen Zinga Mbandi of Ndongo, Catherine the Great of Russia.  In more modern times, Indira Ghandi, Mrs Golda Meyer and Margaret Thatcher have all made their mark on the world.

In civil rights, you could hardly get anyone more influential than Rosa Parks, who set the whole civil rights movement going.  When the story got around that the reason she refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white man was that she was tired, she observed "The only tired I was, was tired of giving in." The notable abolitionists of the 19th century include the Grimke sisters (the first female anti-slavery lecturers in the USA).  Other female abolitionists, who went on to found the women's suffrage movement include Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Lucretia Mott and Lucy Stone.  In the 20th century, Carrie Chapman Catt, Alice Paul, and (in the UK) mrs Pankhurst were all notable women's suffrage leaders.  

Harriet Tubman, the remarkable ex-slave who returned to the south again and again to help other slaves escape, and was active as a spy and scout for the Union Army during the Civil War, is another great woman.

Ida Wells-Barnett, the black women's suffrage leader and courageous campaigner against lynching, is another notable woman.

Notable women in medicine have included Louise Bourgeois Boursier, the 16th century obstetrician, whose text on obstetrics was used in all French medical schools, editions of her work continued to appear until the 18th century. Florence Nightingale, who revolutionised the nursing profession and made it both respectable and respected, was a figure of major importance in the history of medicine.  elizabeth Blackwell was the first woman to graduate as a doctor from a US medical school.  Clara Barton, who delivered vital supplies to Union troops during the Civil War, nursed wounded soliders, and was the founder of the American Red Cross is another significant woman.  Another influential woman of the Civil War was Mary Ann (Mother) Bickerdyke, who nursed the wounded and cleaned up the filthy conditions in  the hospital tents.  She was famous for ordering everyone around, and her reputation gave her the clout to get away with it.  An army surgeon who challenged one of her orders was told "Mother Bickerdyke outranks everybody, even Lincoln."

In the world of business, you couldn't get anyone more succesful and powerful than Madame c. J. Walker, America's first self-made female millionaire.  She started a company selling beauty products for African American women, and ended up employing a network of over 250,000 black women as commissioned agents in her business.  She said in a speech "I want to say to every black woman present, don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come ....Get up and and make them!"

Notable women aviators include Amelia Earhart, Amy Johnson, and Bessie Coleman (the first black woman to obtain a pilot's license in the USA).

Women singers of note include Bessie Smith, Billie Holliday, Ella Fitzgerald, Josephine Baker, Edith Piaf, Shirely Bassey, and in classical music Maria Callas, Dame Nellie Melba, Dame Clara Butt, Joan Sutherland.  In the mid-nineteenth century, the Swedish singer Jenny Lind (the Swedish nightingale) was a superstar of her day.

Answer 18

Alice Walker, Maya Angelou, Barbara Smith, Hillary Clinton, Geraldine Ford, Jackie Kennedy Onassis, Betsey Ross, Cybil Ludington, Cleopatra, Oprah Winfrey, Mary Queen of Scots...

just to name a few....

Answer 19

Maria Shriver, Oprah Winfre, Barbara Streisand. (She broke up Minni Driver and Josh Brolins engagement) Condoleza Rice, Hillary Clinton

Answer 20

Looks like you have a long list...

Just want to through in one of my fav's

Alpha Behn!

Answer 21

Oprah

Cleopatra

Golda Meir

Elizabeth I

Eva Peron

Susan Sarandon

Madonna