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Malala Yousafzai Biography

Valentina Tereshkova

Human Rights

Malala Yousafzai by Brigitte Lacombe I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

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African Women

African

African American Women

Wangari Maathai - Kenya's Nobel Laureate, First African women to win the Nobel Peace Prize (2004) - for promoting conversation, women's rights and transparent government.

Jane Goodall (b. 1934) is a British primatologist, ethologist, anthropologist, and UN Messenger of Peace. Considered to be the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees, Goodall is best known for her 45-year study of social and family interactions of wild chimpanzees in Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania. She is the founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and has worked extensively on conservation and animal welfare issues. Animals, Nature, Chimpanzee, Great Ape, Wild, Wildlife, Primates, Chimp

Jane Goodall (b. 1934) is a British primatologist, ethologist, anthropologist, and UN Messenger of Peace. Considered to be the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees, Goodall is best known for her 45-year study of social and family interactions of wild chimpanzees in Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania. She is the founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and has worked extensively on conservation and animal welfare issues.

Annie Leibowitz has taken photographs of some of the most popular characters of the twentieth century. She was given the Prince of Asturias award in Communications and Humanities last year. Models, Annie Leibovitz, Robert Capa, Lady, Portrait, Portraits, Annie Leibovitz Photography, Annie Leibovitz Photos

Annie Leibovitz Photography

Annie Leibovitz Photos

Annie Leibowitz has taken photographs of some of the most popular characters of the twentieth century. She was given the Prince of Asturias award in Communications and Humanities last year.

Toni Morrison, born 1931, is an American novelist, editor, and professor. Nobel Prize Laureate in 1993. Her novels are known for their epic themes, vivid dialogue, and richly detailed characters. Among her best known novels are The Bluest Eye, Sula, Song of Solomon and Beloved. Aging Gracefully, Black History, Toni Morrison, Writer, Ageless Beauty, Song Of Solomon, Ageless

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Toni Morrison, born 1931, is an American novelist, editor, and professor. Nobel Prize Laureate in 1993. Her novels are known for their epic themes, vivid dialogue, and richly detailed characters. Among her best known novels are The Bluest Eye, Sula, Song of Solomon and Beloved.

Rosa Parks - Wikipedia

Rosa Parks in 1955 with Martin Luther King Jr. On December 1, 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks refused to obey bus driver James F. Blake's order that she give up her seat to make room for a white passenger. Parks' act of defiance became an important symbol of the modern Civil Rights Movement and Parks became an international icon of resistance to racial segregation.

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Canadian author Alice Munro, queen of the short story, is the 2013 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.

A VOICE IS A HUMAN GIFT: Poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, and environmental activist Margaret Atwood says: "A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together." Grow into your voice, discover your voice, recover your voice! New Books, Author, Old Women, Margaret Atwood, Extraordinary People, Aging

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A VOICE IS A HUMAN GIFT: Poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, and environmental activist Margaret Atwood says: "A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together." Grow into your voice, discover your voice, recover your voice!

Joyce Carol Oates is an American author. Oates published her first book in 1963 and has since published over fifty novels, as well as many volumes of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction. Crazy Cat Lady, Dog Wash, Dog Shampoo, Vintage Cat, Cat Sitting, Cat People, Crazy Cats, Feline

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Joyce Carol Oates is an American author. Oates published her first book in 1963 and has since published over fifty novels, as well as many volumes of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction.

Martha

Martha Nussbaum

Beverly

The University Of Chicago

Philosopher Martha Nussbaum to deliver next Patten Lectures: IU News Room

Martha Nussbaum; philosopher, classicist, legal scholar. She was given the Prince of Asturias award in Social Studies two years ago.

Doris Lessing: “Canta la Hierba”.-

Doris Lessing (1919 - 2013). Amazing writer, amazing woman. Nobel prize for literature. Where is her Golden Notebook?

Sherlock

Harper Lee

Harper Lee | Writer, Producer, Additional Crew

Harper Lee. American novelist. She wrote one of the best American novels ever: To kill a mockingbird.

Harriet Boyd Hawes (1871–1945) best known for her discovery and excavation of the Minoan town at Gournia on the island of Crete. She was the first woman to direct a major field project in Greece. While studying at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, she had difficulty convincing the staff that she didn’t want to be a librarian or curator. She wanted to dig, so she set off on her own to Crete. History, Museums, Archaeology, Art, Historical Women, Extraordinary Women, Culture, History Museum, Archeologist

Harriet Boyd Hawes (1871–1945) best known for her discovery and excavation of the Minoan town at Gournia on the island of Crete. She was the first woman to direct a major field project in Greece. While studying at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, she had difficulty convincing the staff that she didn’t want to be a librarian or curator. She wanted to dig, so she set off on her own to Crete.

Prejudice

Fiction

Jane Austen Novels

Jane Austen

Jane Austen (1775 - 1817) was an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction, set among the landed gentry, earned her a place as one of the most read writers in English literature. Her realism, irony and social commentary have gained her historical importance among scholars and critics. One of her most famous novel is Pride and prejudice.