Nurse

Emma Goldman

Social Activism

1869–1940

"The people are asleep; they remain indifferent. They forge their own chains and do the bidding of their masters to crucify their Christs."

🇺🇸Jill Stanek

Literature

b. 1956

"But the homosexual and abortion lobbies are evil twins with the same agenda. Both want the freedom to commit illicit sex without physical or moral consequences."

"It was ironic that even my small triumphs were not attributed to me."

🇬🇧Claire Rayner

Journalism

1931–2010

"Tell David Cameron that if he screws up my beloved NHS I'll come back and bloody haunt him."

"I don’t think you know anyone fully until you know them in relationship to something else or someone else."

🇺🇸Cori Bush

Politics

b. 1976

"Representative Cori Bush, official U.S. House website"

Edith Cavell

Military

1865–1915

"Find A Grave - about the Brussels memorial"

🇬🇧Nadine Dorries

Politics

b. 1957

"Be seen within a mile of my daughters and I will nail your balls to the floor... using your own front teeth. Do you get that?"

🇺🇸Louisa May Alcott

Literature

abolitionism

1832–1888

"Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling."

🇺🇸Harriet Tubman

Social Activism

1822–1913

"I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say — I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger."

🇺🇸Margaret Sanger

Education

1879–1966

"Margaret Sanger: On the contrary, it seems to me that it is more practical and Humane."

🇬🇧Diana Cooper

Literature

1892–1986

"More Than Friends, Less Than Lovers" by William F. Buckley Jr; a New York Times book review of The Letters of Evelyn Waugh and Diana Cooper.William F. Buckley Jr"

🇺🇸Elizabeth Berg

Literature

b. 1948

"There is love in holding and there is love in letting go."

🇬🇧Mary Renault

literature

1905–1983

"Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat."

Florence Nightingale

Medicine

1820–1910

"I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse."

🇮🇷Ashraf Pahlavi

Politics

1919–2016

"I don't need to pray. I have God in myself."

🇺🇸Ma Anand Sheela

Rajneesh movement

b. 1949

"University of Oregon video on The Rise and Fall of Rajneeshpuram"

🇬🇧Vera Brittain

Literature

1893–1970

"It is probably true to say that the largest scope for change still lies in men’s attitude to women, and in women’s attitude to themselves."

Catherine of Genoa

Medicine

1447–1510

"I find in myself by the grace of God a satisfaction without nourishment, love without fear"