First African American female pilot and First African American holder of an international pilot license #WomensHistoryMonth #Day1
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First African-American female astronaut & First African-American woman in space. #WomensHistoryMonth #Day2
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Actor, writer, director, producer, author, poet, and civil rights activist. #WomensHistoryMonth #Day3
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Actress, Radio Performer, First African American to win an Oscar in 1940. #WomensHistoryMonth #Day4
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As Lt UHURA, Nichelle was one the very first African American women to star on a tv show in a lead role. Actress, Singer, Civil and Human Rights advocate. #WomensHistoryMonth #Day5
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“Surely the day will come when colour means nothing more than the skin tone, when all men are born free, when understanding breeds love and brotherhood”.
Dancer, Singer, WW2 Hero, Civil Rights Activist, First African American Superstar #WomensHistoryMonth #Day6
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Born into slavery, Mary Jane Patterson is the first African-American woman in U.S. to receive a B.A degree in 1862. She was also a pioneer in black education and was the inspiration and the lead for other black female educators. #WomensHistoryMonth #Day7
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daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft, famous defender of women's rights, and radical philosopher William Godwin, Mary Shelley ascended to the Pantheon of legendary horror writers with Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus (1818) #WomensHistoryMonth #Day9
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"To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way."
Writer, Poet, Bisexual, LGBT and Civil Rights Activist, Feminist. #BiHealthMonth #BHAM #WomensHistoryMonth #Day10
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"Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others."
American aviation pioneer and author, Earhart was the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. #WomensHistoryMonth #Day11
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"To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women."
Civil Rights, Political, and Social Activist, Educator, Author. #WomensHistoryMonth #Day12
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"We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains."
One of the greatest science fiction writers ever, winner of multiple Hugo Award, Nebula Award, Locus Award #WomensHistoryMonth #Day13
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"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any."
Bi, Novelist, Writer, Poet, Activist, Pulitzer Prize Winner for THE COLOR PURPLE #BiHealthMonth #BHAM #WomensHistoryMonth #Day14
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Gun-totin’, Badass, First Black Woman hired by US Postal Service (1895). At 60yrs old, Mary proved herself the fastest applicant to hitch a team of 6 horses & was hired. Living proof of “be so darn good that they can’t ignore you” #WomensHistoryMonth #Day15
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"Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong."
First Lady of Song, Queen of Jazz, First African-American woman to win a Grammy Award #WomensHistoryMonth #Day16
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Physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person and only woman to win twice, the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two different sciences. #WomensHistoryMonth #Day17
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"There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love."
Screen legend, singer, international icon! First performer to win an Oscar for a foreign-language role #WomensHistoryMonth #Day18
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