womenwonder: Amy Poehler

“As you navigate through the rest of your life, 

be open to collaboration. 

Other people and other people's ideas are often better than your own. Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, 

spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.”

Amy Poehler

Besides being a phenom in the entertainment world, she is a passionate and leader in empowering women and girls, and spearheading and supporting many social and political causes.  She is a serious womanwonder.

As much is known of her contributions to TV and film, I have featured her social and political achievements here: 

Amy Meredith Poehler  is an American actress, comedian, writer, producer, and director. 

In September 2008, Poehler and Meredith Walker and Amy Miles. founded Smart Girls at the Party, an online community and digital web series aimed at empowering girls.^[6][130] The first season premiered online on November 17, 2008, with Mattel's Barbie signed on as the lead sponsor.^[131] Smart Girls at the Party returned in 2012 as part of the YouTube Original Channel Initiative that focused upon the creation of new content. The new Smart Girls at the Party YouTube Channel went live on July 2, 2012, including new episodes of the series along with additional shows by Poehler, Walker and Miles.^[132]

Four years after the launch of Smart Girls at the Party, digital network company Legendary Entertainment acquired ownership of the project. Poehler said in a statement, "We at Smart Girls are excited to be working with Legendary and look forward to providing funny and inspirational content for all of the goofballs out there."^[133] By the time of the deal, over five million views were registered on its YouTube channel and over 550,000 fans had liked the initiative on Facebook.^[133] On the Smart Girls YouTube channel, viewers have the opportunity to ask for life advice from Poehler in segments called Ask Amy.^[134] Smart Girls celebrated its 10th Anniversary in 2018.^[135]

Poehler has also publicly championed a number of social and political causes.^[5] In 2012, she collaborated with the National Domestic Workers Alliance to film a public service announcement (PSA) to draw attention to the proposed California Domestic Worker Bill of Rights.^[136][137] The law, providing overtime pay to domestic workers, was signed into law the following year.^[138] Poehler also supported One Fair Wage, a campaign to require New York businesses to pay tipped workers the general minimum wage.^[139] Poehler has served as a celebrity ambassador for Worldwide Orphans Foundation, traveling to Haiti in 2013.^[5] The following year, Poehler joined Michelle Obama in Miami to celebrate the four year anniversary of her Let's Move! youth health initiative.^[140]

Poehler's memoir, Yes Please, was published on October 28, 2014.^[141] She explained in a promotional interview with National Public Radio (NPR) that she was "used to writing in characters and not really writing about myself ... it was easier to share the early parts of my life rather than my own current events." Topics covered in the book include body image, parenthood, and learning about the limitations of physical appearance.^[142] The book debuted at number one on The New York Times Best-Seller list.^[2]

In 2011, Poehler was included on Time's "100 most influential people in the world".^[143] She also delivered the Class Day address to Harvard University's class of 2011.^[144] The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences invited Poehler to become a member as part of its 2017 class.^[145]

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womenwonder: Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett GBE

On August 18, 1920 the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified here the United States, giving women the right to vote, to add their opinion, voice and wisdom to our country's democratic process.  There were many brave women here and in Britain that fought for this right and as it is the 100th anniversary of women's right to vote and the year of a most crucial presidential election I intend to highlight many of these #womenwonders this month.  

"Courage calls to courage everywhere, and

 its voice cannot be denied."

Millicent Fawcett

As the United States entered World War I in 1917, the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) encouraged its supporters to join in the war effort. The organization argued women deserved the vote because they were patriots, caregivers, and mothers. Women’s expertise in maintaining the home and family would improve politics and society.

The Nineteenth Amendment states: “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.” Congress passed the amendment in June 1919. The NAWSA and NWP suffragists lobbied local and state representatives to ensure its subsequent ratification by the states.

After the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment on August 18, 1920, female activists continued to use politics to reform society. NAWSA became the League of Women Voters.

http://www.crusadeforthevote.org/19-amendment

Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett GBE** (11 June 1847 – 5 August 1929) was an English political leader, activist, writer and feminist icon. Known as a campaigner for women's suffrage via legislative change, from 1897 until 1919 she led Britain's largest women's rights organisation, the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS).[1] She would write: "I cannot say I became a suffragist. I always was one, from the time I was old enough to think at all about the principles of Representative Government."[2] Fawcett also tried to improve women's chances of higher education, serving as a governor of Bedford College, London (now Royal Holloway), and a co-founder of Newnham College, Cambridge, in 1875.[3]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millicent_Fawcett

** The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the civil service

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May this dress remind us to heed our still, small voice ...

Today my still, small voice is telling me to celebrate national women's history month by diving back into my #womenwonders series - highlighting the accomplishments and words of wisdom of the many amazing women. 

This project is so important to me as I believe that women are not celebrated and credited nearly enough for their contributions to our world and life as we know it! 

Heed the still, small voice 

that so seldom leads us wrong, 

and never into folly.

Mme. du Deffand

Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand

 (1697 – 23 September 1780) was a French hostess and patron of the arts.

She was born at the Château de Chamrond, in Ligny-en-Brionnais of a noble family. 

Educated at a Benedictine convent in Paris, where she showed great intelligence and a skeptical, cynical turn of mind. The abbess of the convent was alarmed at the freedom of her views.

She appeared in her earlier days to be incapable of any strong attachment, but her intelligence, her cynicism, and her esprit made her the centre of attraction of a brilliant circle.

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Zoe Kravitz

Zoë Isabella Kravitz (born December 1, 1988) is an American actress, singer, and model. She is the daughter of musician Lenny Kravitz and actress Lisa Bonet. Kravitz made her acting debut in the 2007 film No Reservations.

Her breakthrough role came as Angel Salvadore in the 2011 superhero film X-Men: First Class, which was followed by roles in The Divergent Seriesand Mad Max: Fury Road. Since then, Kravitz has had supporting roles in such films as The Lego Batman Movie and the Harry Potter spin-off film Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, a role she reprised in its sequel, as well as starring roles in independent films, like Dope and Adam Green's Aladdin. Since 2017, Kravitz has also starred in the HBO drama series Big Little Lies.

Aside from acting, Kravitz was the face of Vera Wang's Princess fragrance in 2009, and has modeled for Venus Zine and Elle, among others. She also fronts the band Lolawolf, who released their debut album Calm Down in 2014. The band has also toured with Lily Allen and Miley Cyrus, among others.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoë_Kravitz

Beauty is when you can appreciate yourself.

When you love yourself, 

that's when you're most beautiful. 

Zoe Kravitz

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Ntozake Shange

Ntozake Shange was born Paulette Williams into an upper middle-class African American family. Her father was an Air Force surgeon and her mother a psychiatric social worker. Cultural icons such as Dizzie Gillepsie, Miles Davis, and W.E.B. DuBois were regular guests in the Williams home. Shange attended Barnard College and the University of Southern California, earning both a BA and MA in American Studies. Shange’s college years were difficult, however; frustrated and hurt after separating from her first husband, she attempted suicide several times before focusing her rage against the limitations society imposes on Black women. While earning an MA degree, she reaffirmed her personal strength based on a self-determined identity and took her African name, which means “she who comes with her own things” and she “who walks like a lion.” Shange would go on to a successful triple career as an educator, performer/director, and writer whose work drew heavily on her experiences of being a Black female in America.

Shange was perhaps most famous for her play For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf (1975). A unique blend of poetry, music, dance and drama called a “choreopoem,” it “took the theatre world by storm,” noted Jacqueline Trescott in the Washington Post, as it “became an electrifying Broadway hit and provoked heated exchanges about the relationships between black men and women. ... Its form—seven women on the stage dramatizing poetry—was a refreshing slap at the traditional, one-two-three-act structures.” Mel Gussow, writing in the New York Times, stated that “Miss Shange was a pioneer in terms of her subject matter: the fury of black women at their double subjugation in white male America.” The play uses female dancers to dramatize poems that recall encounters with their classmates, lovers, rapists, abortionists, and latent killers. The women survive abuse and disappointment and come to recognize in each other the promise of a better future. The play received both enthusiastic reviews and criticism for its portrayal of African American men. However, “Shange’s poems aren’t war cries,” Jack Kroll wrote in a Newsweek review of the Public Theatre production of For Colored Girls. “They’re outcries filled with a controlled passion against the brutality that blasts the lives of ‘colored girls’—a phrase that in her hands vibrates with social irony and poetic beauty. These poems are political in the deepest sense, but there’s no dogma, no sentimentality, no grinding of false mythic axes.” Critic Edith Oliver of the New Yorker remarked, “The evening grows in dramatic power, encompassing, it seems, every feeling and experience a woman has ever had; strong and funny, it is entirely free of the rasping earnestness of most projects of this sort. The verses and monologues that constitute the program have been very well chosen—contrasting in mood yet always subtly building.” The play received an Obie Award, the Outer Critics Circle Award, and the AUDELCO Award as well as Tony, Grammy, and Emmy Award nominations. In 2010, director Tyler Perry adapted the choreo-poem into a feature-length film.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/ntozake-shange

“Where there is a woman there is magic.”

 Ntozake Shange

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Charlotte Rae

Charlotte Rae Lubotsky (April 22, 1926 – August 5, 2018), known professionally as Charlotte Rae, was an American character actress, comedian, and singer whose career spanned six decades.

Rae was known for her portrayal of Edna Garrett in the sitcoms Diff'rent Strokes and its spin-off, The Facts of Life (in which she had the starring role from 1979–1986). She received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Best Actress in a Comedy in 1982. She also appeared in two Facts of Lifetelevision movies: The Facts of Life Goes to Paris in 1982 and The Facts of Life Reunion in 2001. She voiced the character of "Nanny" in 101 Dalmatians: The Series and Aunt Pristine Figg in Tom and Jerry: The Movie. She also appeared as Gammy Hart in Girl Meets World.

In 2015, she returned to film in the feature film Ricki and the Flash, with Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, and Rick Springfield. In November 2015, Rae released her autobiography, The Facts of My Life, which was co-written with her son, Larry Strauss.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Rae

All we have is today. Just live it. 

We don't know about tomorrow. 

So, enjoy the day. Love yourself, 

and spread love around. 

Charlotte Rae

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Lesley Ann Warren

Lesley Ann Warren (born August 16, 1946) is an American actress and singer. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the 1982 film Victor/Victoria. She is also an Emmy Award nominee and five-time Golden Globe Award nominee, winning the Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Drama Series for the 1977 NBC miniseries Harold Robbins' 79 Park Avenue.

Warren made her Broadway debut in 1963, and her film debut in The Happiest Millionaire in 1967. Her other film appearances include Clue (1985), Burglar (1987), Cop (1988), Pure Country (1992), Color of Night (1994), and Secretary (2002). She has also appeared in numerous television shows, including Mission: Impossible, Desperate Housewives, Will & Grace, and In Plain Sight.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesley_Ann_Warren

Trust your own instincts, go inside, follow your heart. 

Right from the start. go ahead and stand up for what you believe in. 

As I've learned, that's the path to happiness. 

Lesley Ann Warren

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Karen Salmansohn

Karen Salmansohn is a best selling self-help book author with over one million books sold.

Salmansohn was formerly a senior VP ad creative director (at age 26) who left her job to pursue writing. She has been profiled in the NY Times, Business Week, Chicago Tribune, LA Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, Time Magazine, ELLE, Marie Claire, and Fast Company. She also appeared in popular television shows and was a regular lifestyle reporter for Fox TV.^[1][2][3]

Lately, she has been offering monthly seminars at THE SOHO HOUSE in New York City where she lives. She now has her own SIRIUS radio show called Be Happy Dammit. She also gives seminars nationally (at places like NAWBO, Gen Art, and Media Bistro) and internationally (in Canada, Germany, and elsewhere).^{[citation needed]}

She is a regular columnist for Oprah, CNN, Psychology Today, Huffington Post and MSN and writes a popular career column for amNY, one of New York's largest newspapers, called "The 1 Minute Career Therapist".^[4] She is also a relationship expert for msn.com, match.com and Lifetime TV and a career coach for AOL (alongside Tom Peters and Brian Tracey). She has twenty-nine books, five TV development deals, two film deals, and one perfume named "Unavailable: it's more than a perfume, it's a philosophy."^[5]

She is most known for creating a new breed of highly graphic and feisty self-help books — like her best sellers How To Be Happy, Dammit, Prince Harming Syndrome, Instant Happy and The Bounce Back Book.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Salmansohn

The best things in life are often waiting for you 

at the exit ramp of your comfort zone.

Karen Salmansohn

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Maya Angelou

Maya Angelou, born Marguerite Ann Johnson April 4, 1928, in St. Louis, Missouri, was an American poet, memoirist, actress and an important figure in the American Civil Rights Movement. In 2001 she was named one of the 30 most powerful women in America by Ladies Home Journal. Maya Angelou is known for her series of six autobiographies, starting with I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, (1969) which was nominated for a National Book Award and called her magnum opus. Her volume of poetry, Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'Fore I Die (1971) was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3503.Maya_Angelou

“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, 

but rarely admit the changes it has gone through 

to achieve that beauty.”

 Maya Angelou

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May this dress encourage us to do that which hasn't been done!

Today, two of my world's are colliding; 

my #femininewordsofwisdom and my #100dayproject.

 In the world of social media, starting in April there is a 'challenge' called the #100dayproject. It is open to anyone who wants to participate, and all one needs to do is to set a project for themselves to do for 100 days straight and then do it.  Part of the challenge is posting each day's creation on social media, creating accountability. 

The array of #100dayprojects is spectacular and inspiring.  One year I did #100daysofvirginiacreates and this year I had planned to present 100 days of patterns, however, 

today that changes. 

In March, on this blog,  I featured quotes by women, #femininewordsofwisdom, in honor of  Women's History Month, during which I found so many wonderful quotes and interesting women that I planned to continue.  

I feel very strongly that works and words of and by women need to be celebrated and shared.  As anyone who follows this blog knows, I am a quote-junkie. I am constantly on the lookout for quotes; unique quotes, new quotes, profound quotes, and different quotes. 

 I have also accrued a healthy collection of books of quotes.  And as I venture through these landscapes of quotes I am painfully aware of the dearth of quotes by women.  This trend is changing in the past few years but there is a lot more work that needs to be done.  

So I am changing my #100dayproject to #100daysofwomenwonders where I will share women's quotes, achievements, and accomplishments, with a variety of artistic additions - be it a dress?!? an illustration?!? a pattern or two or maybe a hand-lettered quote, 

time will tell.  

And as I have been doing with the past #femininewordsofwisdom posts, I plan to put at least one or two links to biographical information about the day's featured woman.  

So I am following the advice of Toni Morrison and creating a 'book' (blog) full of the women wonders, celebrating the well-known women and the not so well known women.  It is a book that I wish I had read when I was a little girl and one that I want my daughters to be able to read.

So let the fun begin ...

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Toni Morrison

Morrison grew up in the American Midwest in a family that possessed an intense love of and appreciation for black culture. Storytelling, songs, and folktales were a deeply formative part of her childhood. She attended Howard University (B.A., 1953) and Cornell University (M.A., 1955). After teaching at Texas Southern University for two years, she taught at Howard from 1957 to 1964. In 1965 Morrison became a fiction editor at Random House, where she worked for a number of years. In 1984 she began teaching writing at the State University of New York at Albany, which she left in 1989 to join the faculty of Princeton University; she retired in 2006.

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Toni-Morrison

If there is a book that you want to read, 

but it hasn't been written yet, 

you must be the one to write it. 

Toni Morrison

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Grace Hopper

Grace Brewster Murray Hopper (née Murray December 9, 1906 – January 1, 1992) was an American computer scientist and United States Navyrear admiral.^[1] One of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer, she was a pioneer of computer programming who invented one of the first linkers. She popularized the idea of machine-independent programming languages, which led to the development of COBOL, an early high-level programming language still in use today. She always dreamed of a programming language written in English. 

Prior to joining the Navy, Hopper earned a Ph.D. in mathematics from Yale University and was a professor of mathematics at Vassar College. Hopper attempted to enlist in the Navy during World War II but was rejected because she was 34 years old. She instead joined the Navy Reserves. Hopper began her computing career in 1944 when she worked on the Harvard Mark I team led by Howard H. Aiken. In 1949, she joined the Eckert–Mauchly Computer Corporation and was part of the team that developed the UNIVAC I computer. At Eckert–Mauchly she began developing the compiler. She believed that a programming language based on English was possible. Her compiler converted English terms into machine codeunderstood by computers. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper

"If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. 

It's much easier to apologize than it is to get permission."

Grace Hopper

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Coretta Scott King

Coretta Scott King was one of the most influential women leaders in our world. Prepared by her family, education, and personality for a life committed to social justice and peace, she entered the world stage in 1955 as wife of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and as a leading participant in the American Civil Rights Movement. Her remarkable partnership with Dr. King resulted not only in four children, who became dedicated to carrying forward their parent’s work, but also in a life devoted to the highest values of human dignity in service to social change. Mrs. King traveled throughout the world speaking out on behalf of racial and economic justice, women’s and children’s rights, gay and lesbian dignity, religious freedom, the needs of the poor and homeless, full-employment, health care, educational opportunities, nuclear disarmament and environmental justice. She lent her support to pro-democracy movements world-wide and consulted with many world leaders, including Corazon Aquino, Kenneth Kaunda, and Nelson Mandela.

http://thekingcenter.org/about-mrs-king/

The failure to invest in youth reflects a lack of compassion and 

a colossal failure of common sense. 

Coretta Scott King

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Merle Dandridge
Merle Dandridge (born May 31, 1975)^[1] is an Japanese-born American actress and singer who performed in a number of stage productions, including Broadway musicals Jesus Christ Superstar, Spamalot, and Rent. She is widely known for her role as Alyx Vance in Half-Life 2. Dandridge is also known for her recurring role on television series such as Sons of Anarchy and The Night Shift. In 2016, she began starring as Grace Greenleaf in the Oprah Winfrey Network drama series, Greenleaf. She played Papa Ge in the 2017 revival of Once on this Island, until January 8, 2018, so she could shoot her television show Greenleaf.^[2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merle_Dandridge

As women, we have super powers. 

We are sisters. 

We are healers. We are mothers. 

We are goddess warriors. 

Merle Dandridge

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Marianne Williamson

Marianne Williamson is an internationally acclaimed lecturer, activist and author of four #1 New York times bestselling books. She has been one of America’s most well known public voices for more than three decades. Seven of her twelve published books have been New York Times best sellers and Marianne has been a popular guest on television programs such as Oprah, Good Morning America, and Bill Maher. A quote from the mega best seller A Return to Love, “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure…” is considered an anthem for a contemporary generation of seekers.

Marianne is a native of Houston, Texas. In 1989, she founded Project Angel Food, a meals-on-wheels program that serves homebound people with AIDS in the Los Angeles area. To date, Project Angel Food has served over 11 million meals. Marianne also co-founded the Peace Alliance.

https://marianne.com

and she is running for president, adding meaning and spiritual dialogue to the political rhetoric.

Marianne Williamson adds ‘meaning’ to Democratic presidential field with quixotic ‘inner’ campaign; her rivals are noticing

By Douglas Perry | The Oregonian/OregonLive

Williamson is a thoughtful and engaging speaker -- and she’s offering an overarching message that many Americans seem eager to embrace.

“We need a moral and spiritual awakening in this country,” the 66-year-old Texas native told The Oregonian. “That’s how we change our political dysfunction. It’s not about going to the left or to the right. It’s about going higher.”

“The crisis we’re facing,” she added, “is a crisis of meaning.”

https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2019/03/marianne-williamson-adds-meaning-to-democratic-presidential-field-with-quixotic-inner-campaign-her-rivals-are-noticing.html

Marianne Deborah Williamson (born July 8, 1952)^[1] is an American spiritual teacher, author, lecturer, entrepreneur, and activist. She has written 13 books,^[2] including four New York Times number one bestsellers.^[3] She is the founder of Project Angel Food, a volunteer food delivery program that serves home-bound people with AIDS and other life-threatening illnesses.^[4] She is also the co-founder of The Peace Alliance, a nonprofit grassroots education and advocacy organization supporting peace-building projects.^[5]

In 2014, as an Independent, Williamson ran unsuccessfully for the seat of California's 33rd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives elections in California. On January 29, 2019, she announced her campaign to seek the Democratic nomination for the 2020 United States presidential election.^[6]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marianne_Williamson

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.” 

― Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"

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Dr. Mae Jemison

Mae Carol Jemison (born October 17, 1956) is an American engineer, physician and NASA astronaut. She became the first black woman to travel in space when she served as an astronaut aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour. After graduating medical school and a brief general practice, Jemison served in the Peace Corps from 1985 until 1987. In 1987 her application to become an astronaut was accepted by NASA and on September 12, 1992 she was a mission specialist aboard STS-47. In 1993 she resigned from NASA and founded a company researching the application of technology to daily life. She has appeared on television several times, including as an actress in an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. She is a dancer and holds nine honorary doctorates in science, engineering, letters, and the humanities. She is the current principal of the 100 Year Starship organization.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mae_Jemison

First African-American Woman Astronaut

On June 4, 1987, Mae C. Jemison became the first African-American woman to be admitted into the NASA astronaut training program. After more than a year of training, she became the first African-American woman astronaut, earning the title of science mission specialist — a job that would make her responsible for conducting crew-related scientific experiments on the space shuttle.

When Jemison finally flew into space on September 12, 1992, with six other astronauts aboard the Endeavour on mission STS47, she became the first African-American woman in space. 

During her eight days in space, Jemison conducted experiments on weightlessness and motion sickness on the crew and herself. In all, she spent more than 190 hours in space before returning to Earth on September 20, 1992. Following her historic flight, Jemison noted that society should recognize how much both women and members of other minority groups can contribute if given the opportunity.

https://www.biography.com/people/mae-c-jemison-9542378

Don't let anyone rob you of your imagination,
 your creativity, or your curiosity. 

It's your place in the world; it's your life.

Dr. Mae Jemison, engineer, physician, and NASA astronaut

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bell hooks, a.k.a. Gloria Jean Watkins

Gloria Jean Watkins (born September 25, 1952), better known by her pen name bell hooks,^[1] is an American author, professor, feminist, and social activist. The name "bell hooks" is borrowed from her maternal great-grandmother, Bell Blair Hooks.^[2]

The focus of hooks' writing has been the intersectionality of race, capitalism, and gender, and what she describes as their ability to produce and perpetuate systems of oppression and class domination. She has published over 30 books and numerous scholarly articles, appeared in documentary films, and participated in public lectures. She has addressed race, class, and gender in education, art, history, sexuality, mass media, and feminism.^[3] In 2014, she founded the bell hooks Institute at Berea College in Berea, Kentucky.^[4]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_hooks

Born: September 25, 1952 
Hopkinsville, Kentucky 
African American activist, educator, and writer

Writer, professor, and social critic, bell hooks is undeniably one of the most successful "cross-over" academics of the late twentieth century. Her books look at the function of race and gender in today's culture.

https://www.notablebiographies.com/He-Ho/Hooks-Bell.html#ixzz5jPhANR7D

the life and work of acclaimed intellectual, feminist theorist, cultural critic, artist, and writer bell hooks. The Institute strives to promote the cause of ending domination through understanding the ways systems of exploitation and oppression intersect through critical thinking, teaching, events, and conversation. 
http://www.bellhooksinstitute.com

I will not have my life narrowed down. 

I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or 

to someone else's ignorance.

bell hooks, American author and activist

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