Inspiring Women
Science, Philosophy, Feminism, Literature & the Arts
We hope you enjoy our gallery of Famous Women. Our collection of wonderful Women includes portraits and quotes from female Philosophers, Scientists, Feminists and Artists - Sappho, Hypatia, Cleopatra, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelly, Marie Curie, Anais Nin, Simone de Beauvoir, Hannah Arendt, Iris Murdoch. It is important to recognise and celebrate women who have inspired and contributed to the world with their knowledge, determination, creativity and beauty. Enjoy!
Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond. (Hypatia)
Death of Cleopatra Queen of Egypt "Finish, good lady; the bright day is done, And we are for the dark." (William Shakespeare) |
National Heroine of France: Saint Joan of Arc "Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth." |
Famous Women Marie Antoinette on Courage Suffering "Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end?" |
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Feminist Mary Wollstonecraft on Female Mind "Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience." |
Vindication of the Rights of Women: Wollstonecraft "No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks." |
Writer Jane Austen on Role of Women in History "In history the quarrels of popes and kings, with wars and pestilences in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all - it is very tiresome." (Jane Austen, 1775-1817) |
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Feminist Activist Lucretia Mott: Women's Rights "We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth." |
Sojourner Truth & Lincoln: Ain't I a Woman? "Where did your Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him. ... Ain't I a woman?" |
British Women's Suffrage: Emmeline Pankhurst "We have to free half of the human race, the women, so that they can help to free the other half." |
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Madame Marie Curie: Build Better World "You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. ..." |
Jewish Philosopher Hannah Arendt on Good & Evil "The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil." |
Philosopher Simone De Beauvoir on Sexual Pleasure "Sexual pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken." |
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