Category Archives: Women’s History

We celebrate women who have made a contribution to history and have paved the way for all women of the world to rise up and live without fear.

Women Who Paved The Way | Virginia Woolf

As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world. – Virginia Woolf More about a woman called a modernist at the beginning of the 20th century. Click here. Siobhan ShawSiobhan Shaw never felt she fit in anywhere until …

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Women Who Paved The Way | Pearl Bailey

Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence. – Pearl Bailey. Remembered for her sultry voice Pearl Bailey went on to earn her degree in theology at the age of 67. Discover more about Pearl here.   

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Women Who Paved The Way | Annie Oakley

  Aim at a high mark and you will hit it. No, not the first time, not the second time and maybe not the third. But keep on aiming and keep on shooting for only practice will make you perfect. Finally you’ll hit the bull’s-eye of …

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Women Who Paved The Way | Sarah Bernhardt

We must live for the few who know and appreciate us, who judge and absolve us, and for whom we have the same affection and indulgence. The rest I look upon as a mere crowd, lively or sad, loyal or corrupt, from whom there is …

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Women Who Paved The Way | Mae C. Jemison

Don't let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your curiosity. It's your place in the world; it's your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live. – Mae C. Jemison, first …

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Women Who Have Paved The Way | Marie Curie

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained. — Marie Curie, Nobel prize winner in …

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Women Who Have Paved the Way | Grace Hopper

Humans are allergic to change. They love to say, " We've always done it this way". I try to fight that. That's why I have a clock on my wall that runs counter clockwise. – Grace Hopper About Grace Hopper We are also now referring …

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Women Who Have Paved The Way | Sojourner Truth

If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again. And now they is asking to do it, the …

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