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is a Mumbai-based poet and freelance writer. Her work has been published in various journals, including the Taj Mahal Review and the First Literary Review-East.

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2021-03-11

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Winfrey was fired from her first television job at because she was deemed “unfit for TV”. After awarded the Lifetime Achievement award at the Emmys, she permanently withdrew herself and her show from consideration.

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2021-03-10

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Mother Teresa refused the Nobel banquet, instead requesting that the $192k budget be given to the poor of India.
She continued her work with the poor for the rest of her life, until just months before her death on Sept. 5, 1997.

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2021-03-09

RT : Happy We'll be celebrating all month long by sharing some of the amazing work in our collection and on view by women artists.
First up is this powerful drawing by Philadelphia artist Ellen Powell Tiberino. https://t.co/74Sx6VbJka 1/3

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2021-03-08

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was just a teen when she dropped out of high school. She became San Francisco’s first Black woman cable car conductor. She relocated to Cairo, Egypt, in 1961, where she worked as an editor for an English newspaper.

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2021-03-08

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at first wanted to be a painter when she grew up, but such intellectual role models led her to college thinking of English as a field of study.

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2021-03-07

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Gaines stood her ground in her home as police surrounded her home and shot at her. She made a video stating “I'm at peace. I'm in my home. I ain't trying to hurt nobody. I’m not a criminal.”

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2021-03-07

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graduated cum laude from Radcliffe College at age 24 with honours in 1904 and was the first deaf and blind person to earn a college degree. Keller’s image is embossed on the American Alabama quarter.

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2021-03-05

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Though famous for her singing in , also created a solo album, worked as a vocal coach, and toured with the Intermezzo Choir Ministry. She also held degrees in both Psychology and Human Services.

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2021-03-04

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Eleanor Roosevelt somewhat levelled the playing field by hosting a series of ladies-only press conferences, which pressured papers into hiring more news-women and helped ER win over female voters.

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2021-03-04

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Ebony Taylor founded the Women of Color Coalition at the highschool she
attended. She also has a passion for Philosophy and Debate, and holds two
national individual debate titles.

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2021-03-03

Happy We’re going to feature some of our favorite women of Springfield all month long, starting with Cookie Kwan, number one on the west side and not afraid to get her sale— or some lovin’. Voiced by the singular

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2021-03-02

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.’s family — which included 11 siblings, herself the 4th — was poor when she was growing up in the backwoods of Tennessee’s Great Smokey Mountains. Since she was 7, Parton has written approximately 5,000 songs.

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2021-03-02

Happy Share on ' journey in starting 50yrs ago in 1971& 25+yrs ago. See Afterword on her thoughts on food & cooking "An inspiring, tasty story."— https://t.co/8kpoHNucth

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2021-03-02

Happy Our collection includes numerous posters featuring women at work during wartime. In this poster, from World War I, a woman dressed in overalls holds an airplane and an artillery shell.

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2021-03-02

Happy We applaud all of our female authors and illustrators who are making history right now!

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2020-03-03

March is Join us in celebrating all of the courageous women, past & present, who have contributed to the accomplishments of our country.

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2020-03-02

LA LUMINISTE is coming out during get your copy on March 15: ~RT this post or follow me to enter my book ~Click “Want to Read” at https://t.co/qHkkUcfU7X. ~Preorder the book at a discounted price at https://t.co/GzsJGJaQok.

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2019-03-02

We're posting from the archives to celebrate Petah Coyne and Kathy Grove collaborated on portraits of elusive . Pictured here is "The Real Guerrillas: The Early Years, AKA Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun" (2015-2016)

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2018-03-05