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We’ve rounded up inspirational quotes about women’s empowerment from role models like legendary poet Maya Angelou, trailblazing aviator Amelia Earhart, and U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris ...
Women's History Month Quotes -. "Girls are capable of doing everything men are capable of doing. Sometimes they have more imagination than men." — Katherine Johnson, one of the first Black women ...
Celebrate these inspiring figures in March—and all year long. In honor of Women’s History Month, we’ve rounded up some great books to read to your little trailblazer. There are a few ...
Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu MC (born Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, Albanian: [aˈɲɛzə ˈɡɔndʒɛ bɔjaˈdʒi.u]; 26 August 1910 – 5 September 1997), better known as Mother Teresa, [ a ] was an Albanian-Indian Catholic nun and the founder of the Missionaries of Charity. Born in Skopje, then part of the Ottoman Empire, [ b ] at the age of 18 she moved ...
— Malala Yousafzai, 24 January 2009 BBC blog entry In February 2009, girls' schools were still closed. In solidarity, private schools for boys had decided not to open until 9 February, and notices appeared saying so. On 7 February, Yousafzai and her brother returned to their hometown of Mingora, where the streets were deserted, and there was an "eerie silence". She wrote in her blog: "We ...
A children's edition of the memoir was published in 2014 under the title I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World. [26] The audio book edition, narrated by Neela Vaswani , won the 2015 Grammy Award for Best Children's Album .
Emmeline Pankhurst ( née Goulden; 15 July 1858 – 14 June 1928) was a British political activist [ 1] who organised the British suffragette movement and helped women to win in 1918 the right to vote in Great Britain and Ireland. In 1999, Time named her as one of the 100 Most Important People of the 20th Century, because any chick who wants to ...
Americans have increasingly drawn inspiration from Kamala Harris’s historic rise as the first Black woman and the first woman of South Asian descent to accept a major political party’s ...