Rebecca West
Rebecca West famously remarked that ‘people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute’.
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Te Aitū-o-te-rangi Jury
Ngāti Kahungunu founding mother, landowner, farmer in New Zealand
Lily Alexander
British activist, sculptor and painter who travelled internationally
Flora McMillan Forde
New Zealand political activist, feminist, welfare worker
Deirdre Kelly
Irish environmental and community campaigner
Mary Barbour
Social reformer, WW1 Rent Strike leader, founding member of the Women’s Peace Crusade in Scotland and a pioneering woman councillor in 1920s Glasgow.
Marija Jurić Zagorka
The first professional political journalist in Croatia and South East Europe, a women’s rights’ advocate, one of the most widely-read Croatian writers ever, a co-founder of the Croatian Journalists Association, a novelist, a playwright, a screenwriter, one of the early pioneers of science fiction, the founder of the first women’s trade union organization in Croatia.
Winifred Annie Valentine
New Zealand teacher, educationalist
Flora Nwapa
Considered Africa’s first internationally published female novelist
Alicia Adélaide Needham
Irish musician and composer