Women Of History

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She was left unidentified in a photo with 37 male scientists…until this 2018 tweet

[Hengaw Organization for Human Rights @Hengaw_English]

♦️Security Forces Arrest and Disappear Tehran Artist Zara Esmaeili

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[ACLU @ACLU]

REMINDER: The draft opinion leaked to Politico is not an official decision. Abortion is a right and Roe is still the law of the land.

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: President Biden selected Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson as his nominee to the Supreme Court. If confirmed, she would become the first Black woman to serve as a justice.

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[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: U.S. Soccer and a group of women’s players agreed to a $24 million settlement that included a pledge to equalize pay with the men’s team.
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“There’s something special about a woman who dominates in a man’s world. It takes a certain grace, strength, intelligence, fearlessness, and the nerve to never take no for an answer.”

Rihanna

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“We are here, not because we are law-breakers; we are here in our efforts to become law-makers.”

Emmeline Pankhurst

[The New York Historical @NYHistory]

On your marks...get set. Go!

Imagine running a race in such long skirts! 😰 And yet that's exactly what these women did during a race on a NYC beach more than 100 years ago. #ArchivesAthletes #ArchivesHashtagParty

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“The best way for us to cultivate fearlessness in our daughters and other young women is by example. If they see their mothers and other women in their lives going forward despite fear, they'll know it's possible.”

Gloria Steinem

[The Irish at War @irelandbattles]

#OnThisDay 1893 Rosie Hackett was born in Dublin. Hackett was a co-founder of Irish Women's Workers Union &supported workers in the 1913 Lockout. A member of the ICA, she helped print the Proclamation&was stationed in St Stephen's Green during the Easter Rising.
#Ireland #History

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

'Allegory of Music' by Elisabetta Sirani (1638-1665), an Italian Baroque painter who was the first female artist to specialize in history painting. She opened an academy for women artists before her mysterious early death #womensart

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"Women have always been an equal part of the past. We just haven't been a part of history."

Gloria Steinem

[Women Of History @WomenOfHistory3]

"We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced."

Malala Yousafzai

[International Tennis Hall of Fame @TennisHalloFame]

Hall of Famer Shirley Fry-Irvin, one of just 10 women in tennis history to have won singles titles at every major, along with 13 doubles and mixed doubles titles, has passed away. The American tennis legend was world No. 1 in 1956.

Our thoughts are with her family and friends.

[Women Of History @WomenOfHistory3]

“Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for women everywhere. It's not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It's about baking a new pie.”

Gloria Steinem

[Amazing Girls Empowered @mymightygirls]

Top 10 Famous Women Scientists in History https://t.co/Wja0aCuo3x

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“I have chosen to no longer be apologetic for my femaleness and my femininity. And I want to be respected in all of my femaleness because I deserve to be.”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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“If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.”

Shirley Chisholm

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“My coach said I run like a girl. And I said if he ran a little faster he could too.”

Mia Hamm