Dolores Batista
Tarahumara poet, essayist, translator, and social activist.
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Emily Newell Blair
American suffragist and co-founder of the League of Women Voters.
Marlo Thomas
American actress
Sonia Johnson
Sonia Johnson was a fifth-generation Mormon who became active in the campaign to pass the Equal Rights Amendment. In 1977, Johnson co-founded Mormons for ERA. Her activism led to her excommunication from the LDS Church and influenced her decision to run for President.
Margaret Wolfe Hungerford
1800s Irish popular fiction writer
June Mathis
As one of the first screenwriters to include details such as stage directions and physical settings in her work, Mathis saw scenarios as a way to make movies into more of an art form. In 1920, she headed Metro’s scenario department, the first female executive at that studio.
Margaret Pender
Irish poet, novelist and political activist
Sister Nivedita
Irish educator, writer, and political activist in India
Margaret Phelan
20th century Irish local historian
Margaret Moore
1700s and 1800s Countess Mount Cashell and writer