Quotable Women
In a 2016 speech, she said, "When someone is cruel... you don't stoop to their level--No... when they go low, we go high"
Michelle Obama
Her resume includes governor of Alaska, vice presidential candidate & Bear on "The Masked Singer"
Sarah Palin
In 2023 all living first ladies gathered in Atlanta to pay tribute to this first lady who passed away at 96
Rosalynn Carter
Her resume includes Secretary of State, senator from New York & first lady
Hillary Clinton
Born in Warsaw, she is still the only woman to win Nobel prizes in 2 different fields
Marie Curie
At a climate change conference in 2018, she said, "The first thing I have learned is that you are never too small to make a difference"
Greta Thunberg
Japanese-born Mazie Hirono became a naturalized citizen of this state in 1959 & a senator in 2013
Hawaii
For over 15 years, this German politician was one of the most powerful people in the world
Angela Merkel
She had completed some 22,000 miles of a 29,000-mile trip around the world when she disappeared in 1937
Amelia Earhart
This Swiss-born psychiatrist known for identifying 5 stages of grief
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
This creator of "Grey's Anatomy" repeats the advice her father gave her: "The only limit to your success is your own imagination"
Shonda Rhimes
Condoleezza Rice's successor as Secretary of State, she visited more than 100 countries during her tenure
Hillary Clinton
In 1924 she began working with the American Foundation for the Blind & for over 40 years was its leading ambassador
Helen Keller
She was Czechoslovakia's top women's tennis player when she defected to the U.S. in 1975
Martina Navratilova
This teenager & her younger brother Ptolemy XIII became co-rulers upon the death of their father
Cleopatra
She said, "Chimpanzees have given me so much. The long hours spent with them... have enriched my life beyond measure"
Jane Goodall
South Carolina's first female governor, she had bigger plans for 2024 but they didn't work out
Nikki Haley
Subject of a 2023 film, in 2013, she became the first person to swim from Cuba to Florida without a shark cage for protection
Diana Nyad
The legendary jazz lady seen here "sang the blues" under this name
Billie Holiday
A state in Australia & an African waterfall both bear her name
(Queen) Victoria
Prime minister who in 1983 said, "I am extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end"
Margaret Thatcher
In 1941 this congresswoman said, "As a woman I can't go to war, & I refuse to send anyone else
Jeannette Rankin
Referred to as the "Jackie Robinson of tennis", she was named Female Athlete of the Year in 1957 & 1958 by the Associated Press
Althea Gibson
She helped found the State of Israel & in 1969, became its first female prime minister
Golda Meir
On June 16th, 1963, she set off on a nearly 71-hour flight, becoming a Soviet hero and the first woman in space
(Valentina) Tereshkova