FAMOUS WOMEN
The records this sprinter set in the 100 & 200 meters in 1988 still stand today
Flo-Jo
On July 4, 1876, she read the Declaration of Rights of Women of the United States in front of Independence Hall
Susan B. Anthony
In the 1930s, Regina Jonas became the first woman officially ordained this & was a chaplain in Berlin's Jewish hospital
a rabbi
In 1970 Britain's prime minister Edward Heath appointed her secretary for education
Margaret Thatcher
Courtesy of Perseus, her snaky severed head was placed on the shield of Athena
Medusa
The first Latina on the Supreme Court, she says watching "Perry Mason" as a kid inspired her to become a lawyer
Sonia Sotomayor
This "wife of one president and the mother of another" was quoted as decrying "laws in which we have no voice"
Abigail Adams
Eileen Collins was the first woman to pilot & later command one of these
a space shuttle
Before becoming prime minister in 1966, she served as India's minister of information & broadcasting
Indira Gandhi
This daughter of Zeus & Leda was considered to be the most beautiful woman in the world
Helen of Troy
This Ms. & feminist icon co-founded Ms. magazine in 1971
Gloria Steinem
The declaration makes the same case as the 20th century slogan "equal" this "for equal work"
pay
In 2013 at Daytona she became the first woman to win a pole position in a Sprint Cup event
Danica Patrick
In 1770, at age 14, she married Louis XVI by proxy in Vienna; the 2 had never met
Marie Antoinette
After she died of a snakebite, her husband Orpheus tried to rescue her from Hades
Eurydice
On her second mission in space, she went up with childhood friend & fellow astronaut Kathryn Sullivan
Sally Ride
The declaration was the product of the NWSA, the National Woman this Association
suffrage
In 1889 Anna Bissell helped America clean these as the USA's first female CEO
Dolores Ibárurri, a heroine of the losing side in this 1930s war, remained honorary president of the Communist Party until 1989
the Spanish Civil War
According to Ovid, this jealous goddess turned the nymph Callisto into a bear for being Jupiter's lover
Juno
After her death, it was revealed that she'd had leukemia for 12 years, including her time as Israel's prime minister
Golda Meir
The declaration asserted that as women accused of crimes were tried only by men, they never got a jury of these
their peers
It was the field of Maria Mitchell, the first woman member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
astronomy
In 1903 she starred in the play "Hatchetation" & got the chance to smash a saloon in one scene
Carry Nation
After she spurned Apollo, he made sure no one would believe her prophecies
Cassandra