Happy Belated Women's Day 🌸 lotsa great women in this world have come, gone, remain & to come! Ada Lovelace, Mary Wollstonecraft, Erinna...
Queen Boudicca—whose Celtic culture titillated the Romans so much because of the freedom and power women had in daily life—who led the resistance & sadly lost
& the memory of The Sitones, a Norse or Germanic tribe described by the Roman historian Tacitus as having been ruled by women, unlike neighbouring ones 🌸 a terra femina or 'women's land' also existed somewhere north.
Pictured is also Hedy Lamarr, who is grand part of why we have Wi-Fi & Bluetooth today.
As an expansion to my previous list of women who went against the odds or flow, did great things, or lived in cultures that gave them more liberties, I present an updated one below for you all to explore ✨🌸
Trota Of Salerno
Hildegard of Bingen
Nettie Stevens
Lisa Meitner
Marietta Blau
Nona Gaprindashvili
Anarcha, Lucy, Betsey
Henrietta Lacks
Sally Ride
Camille Claudel
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
Rosalind Franklin
Matilda Joslyn Gage
Alice Ball
Nell Gwyn
Hypatia
Emily Warren Roebling
Valeria Messalina
Faustina the Elder
Julia Domna
Inspiring myth of Agnodice of Athens
Cleopatra 6
Aphra Behn
Alice Roosevelt
Maria Oktyabrskaya
Shammuramat & Semiramis
Stratonice of Syria
Rhodogune
Princess Diana
Atossa
Parysatis
Sarah Rector
Theodora I
Dido
Artemisia I of Caria
Neferusobek
Hatshepsut
Nefertiti
Artemisia II of Caria
Ada of Caria
Tomyris
Onomaris?
Nefertari / Nefertari Meritmut / Naptera
Ašmu-Nikkal / Ašmu-nikal
Queen Puduḫepa / Pudu-Kheba
Sappho
Lampedo
Judy-Lynn del Rey
Edith Durham
Lydia D. Newman
Sarah Boone
Alice Parker
Marie Van Brittan Brown
Mary Kenner
Sister Rosetta Thorpe
Dr. Marian Croak
Dr. Shirley Jackson
Marpesia
Aspasia
Hipparchia of Maroneia
Margaret Keane
Dr. Sophonisba Preston Breckenridge, JD, PhM, PhD
Annie Montague Alexander
Louise Kellogg
Comtesse de Murat
Rosalie Kemble Sully & the portrait of Cinderella
Boudicca
Though endemic Celtic culture was just generally heaven for women compared to the later Roman values, I wanted to mention her as a way to speak of pre Roman Celtic culture
Mary Anning
Nannerl Mozart
Rebecka Mendelssohn
Qiu Jin
Mastoureh Ardalan
Asenath Barzani
Lady Adela
Gorgo, Queen of Sparta (as a reference point for the power available to a queen in ancient Sparta)
Fatma of the Ezdinan tribe
Helen Coley Nauts
Harriet Taylor Mill
Marie Curie
Anna Wheeler
Dorothea Lange
Simone de Beauvoir
Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary Shelley
Lise Meitner
Viola Franca
Jadwiga Łuszczewska
Bibha Chowdhuri
Rajeshwari Chatterjee
Ritu Karidhal
Janaki Ammal
Homai Vyarawalla
Usha Mehta
Usha Meshta
Anna Mani
Juana Ramirez
Gladys Mae West
Sophia Duleep Singh
Wallada bint al-Mustakfi
Hafsa bint al-Hajj al-Rakuniya
Muhja bint al-Tayyani
Agnes Lundell
Frances Oldham Kelsey
Mary Grew
La Belle Otéro
Erinna
Sojourner Truth
Justine Johnstone
Adhikar, the movie (1954)
Eleanor "Nell" Gwyn
Anne Royall
Mary Fisher (missionary)
Margaret Fell
Sarah Blackborow
Nana Asma’u
Nzinga / Njinga of Ndongo and Matamba (though she has been described asome leanings into both stronk woman and masc-leaning gender diverse; also had 50 gender diverse chibados in her court)
Sacheen Littlefeather
Virginia Woolf
Anna Johnson Pell Wheeler
Emmy Noether
"Emmy Noether – her courage, her frankness, her unconcern about her own fate, her conciliatory spirit – was in the midst of all the hatred and meanness, despair and sorrow surrounding us, a moral solace."
Marie Johanna Weiss
Olga Taussky-Todd
Grete Hermann
Auguste Dick
Grace Shover Quinn
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Lucretia Mott
Susan B Anthony
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Tubman
Mary Ludwig Hays
Margaret Corbin
Sofonisba anguissola
Fatima al-Fihri
Rosalind Franklin
Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz
Ada Lovelace
Maria Lydia Child
Mary The Jewess
Sylvia Plath
Zivia Lubetkin
Barbara Bartlett Stimson
Eliza Cook
Julia Soaemias Bassiana
Julia Maesa
Julia Domna
Ruth Andreas-Friedrich
Catherine of Siena
Bridget “Biddy” Mason
Wu Zetian
Maria Cunitz
Vera c. Rubin
Edmonia Lewis
There are also some here that honestly lean more into having been what we'd call transmasc+, agender, gender fluid, bigender or otherwise gender diverse but its not for me to assume without good evidence.
Others are also mythological but notable just the same 🌸
Belva Ann Lockwood
Victoria Woodhull
Harriet Goodhue Hosmer
"When Hosmer showed Zenobia in Chains at the International Exhibition at London’s Crystal Palace to critical acclaim, she was accused of attempting to pass off a man’s work as her own...."
Empress Theodora
Juanita Pearl Johns & Georgia Laura White
Lucy Stone
Zinaida Martynovna Portnova
Khutulun
Saint Theodora of the Vasta village
Matilda of Canossa
Ebba L. Lewenhaupt - Kung Märta
Jacqueline of Wittelsbach
Joan Of Arc
Emma Goldman
Voltairine de Cleyre
Women in pre-colonial Philippines
Abigail Adams
Kristina Gyllenstierna
Dr. Connie Myers Guion
Gladys West
Hedy Lamarr
Caroline Herschel
Mary Somerville
Lady Byron
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz
Rose Talbot Bullard
Charlotte Cushman
Anne Hampton Brewster
Dr. Elizabeth Ann Follansbee
Emma Stebbins
Her sculpture, Angel of the Waters, resides in central park.
Maroula Comnena
Margaret Fuller
Judith Sargent Murray
Catharine Macaulay
Joanna of Flanders
Mary Emma "May" Woolley
Jeanne de Clisson
Benazir Bhutto
The Gulabi Gang
Zsófia Torma
Laura X
Ruth Ginsburg
Katherine Johnson
Berthe Morisot
Katharine Blodgett
Annie Jump Cannon
Artemisia Gentileschi
Eunice Newton Foote
Rachel Carson
Radclyffe Hall
Helped popularize the concept of Sexual inversion and no doubt helped thousands in not millions of uranian & Gay men, sapphic & lesbian women, and trans+ people find themselves 💕
Hilma af Klint
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Mulieribus_Claris
Honorable & less honorable men I just can't not mention, even if not ALL has aged well🙃:
Ulysses S Grant
Rutherford B Hayes
Emperor Hongzhi
Ismail Mashal
Mr. Rogers (duh)
John Stuart Mill
Henry Hunt (politician)
John Neal
William Thompson
🌺🌺🌺 ✨✨💐💐
With cordial regards & love to you all, most beautiful people of this earth! 💖 Toodles ^^
-Lillian Darby, bluestocking bint