Mary Wollstonecraft

“[I]f we revert to history, we shall find that the women who have distinguished themselves have neither been the most beautiful nor the most gentle of their sex.” 

Mary Wollstonecraft   

eighteenth-century British writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights

Angelina Jolie & Malala Yousafzai

"As girls across Pakistan stand up to say 'I am Malala,' they do not stand alone. Mothers and teachers around the world are telling their children and students about Malala, and encouraging them to be a part of her movement for girls’ education."

Angelina Jolie

 award-winning actress writing about Malala Yousafzai

  a 14-year-old Pakistani girl shot in the head by the Taliban for promoting  girls' education 

Harriet Tubman

“I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one
of two things I had a right to,
liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.”

—Harriet Tubman
Escaped slave who led many other slaves

to freedom, an abolitionist, Civil War soldier,

and women's rights advocate.

Photo Library of Congress

Week 40: Shirley Chisholm

From Address on Equal Rights for Women Given To The US House Of Representatives,
Washington, DC: May 21, 1969

“...I wish to introduce today a proposal that has been before every Congress for the last 40 years and that sooner or later must become part of the basic law of the land -- the equal rights amendment.”

—Shirley Chisholm

American politician,
educator and author