Women's Day

Happy Women's Day!

Give thanks to the women in your life and those that came before you.

My favorite women in history

Firsts
Clara Barton - founder of the International Red Cross
Pearl S. Buck - First American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature for The Good Earth
Marie Curie - First woman to win the Nobel Prize
Amelia Earhart - First female aviator to fly solo over the Atlantic Ocean
Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay - First woman to earn a doctorate
Sandra Day O'Conner - First woman to serve on the Supreme Court
Sally Ride - First woman in space
Margaret Thatcher -  First female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Activists
Susan B. Anthony - Activist
Rosa Parks - Civil rights activist
Coretta Scott King - Activist and wife of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Anne Frank - Young girl remembered for her bravery

The Arts

Grace Kelly - Actress and Princess of Monaco

Ingrid Bergman - Actress of acclaim

Jean Harlow - Actress

Bette Davis - Actress

Audrey Hepburn - Actress and activist

Frida Khalo- Artist

Emily Dickinson - Poet

Harriet Beecher Stowe - Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin

Jane Austen - Author of many beloved books

Mary Shelley - Author of Frakenstein

Mary Cassatt - Artist

Artemisia Gentileschi - Artist

Georgia O'Keefe - Artist

Catherine De'Medici - Patron of the arts in Italian Renaissance

Politics

Queen Elizabeth I - Influential, powerful Queen of England

Princess Diana of Wales - Remembered for her activism and kindness

Eleanor Roosevelt - Civil rights activist and First Lady of the United States during the Great Depression

Laura Bush - First Lady and advocate for children and reading

Michelle Obama - Advocate for American children and First Lady