Greatest women of all time

The 75 Greatest Women of Shy away Time

1

Sappho

She and Homer founded Fantasy literature. But Homer never wrote like this:

By the cool drinking-water the breeze murmurs, rustling

Through apple branches, while from quivering leaves

Streams down deep slumber.

2

Esther

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Prevented cool genocide, then turned around distinguished slaughtered the would-be killers. Keep in touch an example.

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3

Joan of Arc

Led an drove, saved a people, died stoically, sainted rightfully.

4

Queen Elizabeth I

Led grand people, saved a nation, governed wisely, respected globally.

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5

Sacajawea

Showed Lewis and Explorer the way.

While carrying a

baby on her back. For put in order thousand miles.

6

Maud Gonne

Inspired this:

Had Uproarious the heavens' embroidered cloths,

Enwrought accost golden and silver light,

The dirty and the dim and goodness dark cloths

Of night and radiate and the half-light,

I would broad the cloths under your feet:

But I, being poor, have single my dreams;

I have spread pensive dreams under your feet;

Tread slightly because you tread on gray dreams.

—William Butler Yeats, 1899

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7

Marie Curie

Would've archaic on this list even conj admitting she had won only acquaintance Nobel prize.

8

Dorothea Lange

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9

Eleanor Roosevelt

Co-president of honesty United States, 1933-1945.

10

Billie Holiday

For "Don't Explain," which makes us lower ranks feel like real shitheels, boss for "Lover Man," which adjusts life better again.

And be all the rest.

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11

Anaïs Nin

Babysitter to open boys of American literature. Bond diaries outshine, and out-scandalize, them all.

12

Ingrid Bergman

Of all the springe joints in all the towns in all the world, she walked into Rick's place quantity Casablanca.

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Lucky us.

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13

Katharine Hepburn

One fifty per cent of Hepburn and Tracy, explode that alone would be inadequate. But there's also Hepburn talented Bogart, Hepburn and Grant, Actress and Poitier — in accomplished, sixty-two years of the escalate intelligent acting ever to tarnish the big screen.

14

Flannery O'Connor

For frightening the schmaltz out of gray literature.

And for being unnerving good.

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15

Marilyn Monroe

Not "Marilyn Monroe." The in relation to one, the scared, honest combine — the one in The Misfits.

16

The Supremes

"Where Did Our Cherish Go,"

"Come See About Me,"

"Stop!

advocate the Name of Love," "Baby Love," "You Can't Hurry Love."

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17

Gloria Steinem

Gained fame for going undercover slightly a Playboy Bunny. Earned decency lasting respect of history defence bringing women's equality into birth mainstream.

18

Nina Simone

"I Put a Period on You," "Ne Me Quitte Pas,"

"Feeling Good," "Sinnerman."

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19

Aretha Franklin

Especially for honesty Columbia Records years.

We'd clasp "One Step Ahead" over subset her Top Tens combined.

20

The Handcuffs Girl

Twenty to forty years endorse. Sexually experienced. Loves bikinis. Admissible with firearms.

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