Hipparchia of Maroneia
Hipparchia of Maroneia (l. c. 350-280 BCE) was a Cynic philosopher who rejected her upper-class life to live her beliefs and share her values on the streets of ancient Athens.
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Timycha of Sparta
Ancient Greek philosopher
Arete of Cyrene
Arete of Cyrene (l. 4th century BCE) was a philosopher of the Cyrenaic School
Simone de Beauvoir
Perhaps the most renowned French feminist writer of the twentieth century, Simone de Beauvoir made significant contributions to the French feminist and existentialist movements.
Katherine Jones
1600s Viscountess Ranelagh and woman of letters
Sister Nivedita
Irish educator, writer, and political activist in India
Susanne Langer
American philosopher
Simone Veil
French magistrate, Holocaust survivor and politician who championed women’s rights and is remembered for the landmark 1975 law legalising abortion, the Veil Act (Loi Veil).
Bettina d’Andrea
1300s Italian legal scholar and professor in law and philosophy at the University of Padua
Murasaki Shikibu
Japanese novelist and poet Murasaki Shikibu served as a lady-in-waiting at the Imperial court in the Heian period, in the late 900s and early 1000s CE. While she is best known for the three-part novel The Tale of Genji, 128 of her poems were gathered into a collection of Poetic Memoirs, and her diary serves as a fascinating look at court life in this period.