On record they are
called as better half, however, never treated as one but at the end the
achievement what count. These women showed that, time, age, disability and
finance nothing came in their way while they pursued their dream and
achieved whatever they dreamt. On international Woman’s Day, my tribute
to some extra-ordinary lots.
Author
Anne Frank (1929
- 1945)
Anne may not have
any real accomplishments of her out but she’s certainly one of the most famous
women in history, even if she was just barely a woman when she died. Her diary,
Diary of a Young Girl, has been adapted into numerous films and plays and has
been read by millions of people world wide.
Helen Keller (1880-1968)
First deaf blind
person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree and an Alabama Woman’s Hall of Fame
inductee. Throughout her life, Keller was a supporter of women’s suffrage, labour
rights and various other causes.
Margaret Fuller
She was the first
woman allowed to use the Harvard library. Her work and support of prison
reform, emancipation of slaves and a woman’s right to education and employment
inspired others, including Susan B. Anthony, to work for the same things.
Gwendolyn Brooks
(1917-2000)
Won the Pulitzer
Prize for Poetry in 1950, appointed Poet Laureate of Illinois in 1986 and
Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1985. She was the
first African American to receive a Pulitzer Prize
Jhumpa Lahiri
(1967)
Jhumpa Lahiri is an
Indian American author. Lahiri's debut short story collection, Interpreter of
Maladies, won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and her first novel,
The Namesake, was adapted into the popular film of the same name.
Arundhati Roy
(1961)
Arundhati Roy is an
Indian author and political activist who was best known for the 1998 Man
Booker Prize for Fiction winning novel The God of Small Things and for her
involvement in environmental and human rights causes.
Kiran Desai
(1971)
Kiran Desai is an
Indian author. She is a citizen of India
and a permanent resident of the United
States. Her novel The Inheritance of Loss
won the 2006 Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle
Fiction Award.
Healer
Mother Theresa (1910-1997)
Perhaps the most
famous woman of the twentieth century is a small, frail-looking nun by the name
of Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, who became much better known to the world
simply as Mother Theresa. Establishing the Missionaries of Charity in 1950 with
just 13 members, eventually it would grow to a staff of 4,000 nuns who would
run dozens of orphanages, AIDS hospices, and charity centers worldwide.
Florence Nightingale ( 1820 - 1910)
Considered to be
the founder of modern nursing. Nightingale established her school of nursing at
St. Thomas’ Hospital in London
in 1860, an event thought to have laid the foundation for modern nursing.
Today, nurses take the “Nightingale Pledge”, named in her honor and
International Nurses Day is celebrated each year on her birthday.
Scientist
Marie Curie
(1867 - 1934)
Born Maria
Skladowska in Warsaw, Poland, Marie Curie was to seriously test the
old adage that a woman’s place was in the home. A largely penniless student who
worked as a governess and tutor while pursuing her dream of becoming a
physicist What makes Madame Currie so
remarkable - besides being the first woman to win two Nobel Prize in
science.
Barbara McClintock (1902 - 1992)
One of the world’s
most distinguished cryogenticists. American geneticist and Nobel laureate,
most noted for her discovery that genes can transfer their positions on chromosomes,
which is important for the understanding of hereditary processes.
!!!A woman has to live her life, or live to
repent not having lived it. - D. H. Lawrence!!!
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