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There is something these inspirational women all share in common: they are all warriors and continue to inspire us in our own modern lives.Eleanor Roosevelt once challenged us all to, ‘do one thing every day that scares you.’ Below are just a select handful of headstrong women who echoed that call to arms and did just that.She once described fears as ‘paper tigers’, adding, ‘please know that I am aware of the hazards.I want to do it because I want to do it.’ During an attempt to circumnavigate the globe in 1937, Earhart disappeared over the central Pacific Ocean. Her final failure became, like she once said, a challenge to us all.The publication of ‘A Vindication of the Rights of Woman’ in 1792 is considered one of the earliest examples of feminist philosophy.
The day itself – the day she was arrested – will forever be known as Rosa Parks Day.
Throughout history, women have fought courageously and tirelessly to assert themselves as individuals and experts in their field, something most men have had the luxury of taking for granted.
Groundbreaking designers, space explorers, pilots, political activists and feminists, artists, monarchs and leaders.
In a commencement address in 1996, to her old women’s liberal-arts college in Wellesley, she would famously say: ‘Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.’ As synonymous with women’s suffrage as the word ‘suffrage’ itself, in 1999 Time magazine named Emmeline Pankhurst one of the 100 Most Important People of the 20th Century, saying: ‘she shaped an idea of women for our time; she shook society into a new pattern from which there could be no going back.’ In 1903 Pankhurst co-founded the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) with a clear agenda focused on direct action to win women the vote.
‘Deeds not words, was to be our permanent motto’, she would later say. It was at Holloway Prison that Emmeline Pankhurst would stage her first hunger strike, withstanding violence and abuse to enable all women the right to vote.