Fantastically Great Women Who Changed The World: Gift Edition

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Yes, Aly Raisman is a two-time Olympian and winner of six medals, including three gold, in gymnastics. And yes, she’s the athlete behind one of the most difficult tumbling sequences in the sport. But her power on the mat is nothing compared to the power of her voice. Raisman is also the survivor of sexual assault, which she—and hundreds of other female athletes—experienced at the hands of former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar. For Raisman, the abuse began when she was 16 and continued for years. When Raisman faced her abuser in court, she told Nassar, “Larry, you do realize now that we, this group of women you so heartlessly abused over such a long period of time, are now a force and you are nothing … We have our voices, and we are not going anywhere.” Chisala also talks about self-love and self-care. Something on the journey of doing for myself. She also mentioned not putting a man before yourself. Something I often see way more than I should. Fantastisk seje kvinder der forandrede verden' er et farverigt og legende pragteksemplar af en historiebog. Bogen skal vendes og drejes, når læseren vandrer ad snørklede stier eller læser skæve avisudklip. Den er et oplagt afsæt til børns egne fortællinger om, hvordan deres historie skal se ud, og hvordan de vil forandre verden. As well as being a gorgeously illustrated and educational book, Women in Sciencehighlights the contributions of these incredible women. Lecțiile de perseverență, curaj, inovație debordează din paginile acestei cărți, amintindu-le adulților și învățându-i pe cei mici să fie corecți, curajoși și neînfricați. De la Jane Austen care a revoluționat lumea literaturii mondiale, devenind prima femeie care a dat glas nonconformist eroinelor sale, trecând prin universul fascinant al Fridei Kahlo, cea care a schimbat percepția artei dându-i emoției o imagine palpabilă și până la sufrageta Emmelina Pankhurst, cea căreia îi datorăm dreptul la vot, această enciclopedie scoate în față puterea femeilor din toate timpurile.

The incredible women featured in this book- from scientists to artists, from explores to creators. Children of all ages will be inspired to work hard at anything they want to do. Nassar was sentenced to 60 years in federal prison for his crimes, in addition to hundreds of years for charges at the state level. But in a 2017 piece penned for The Players’ Tribune, Raisman made it clear that punishing Nassar wasn’t enough. “We need to change the systems that embolden sexual abusers,” she wrote. “We must look at the organizations that protected Nassar for years and years: USA Gymnastics, the U.S. Olympic Committee, and Michigan State University. Until we understand the flaws in their systems, we can’t be sure something like this won’t happen again.” Raisman made it her mission to enact change: In March 2018, she filed suit against USA Gymnastics and the U.S. Olympic Committee. “Thousands of young athletes continue to train and compete every day in this same broken system,” Raisman said in a statement. “I refuse to wait any longer for these organizations to do the right thing. It is my hope that the legal process will hold them accountable and enable the change that is so desperately needed.” Queen Elizabeth II was officially coronated on June 2, 1953. / Victoria Jones - WPA Pool/Getty Images The music business can be ruthless. But Dolly Parton, a country music sensation since the 1960s, has long been the steward of her own ship. By retaining control of much of her music, she’s used the proceeds for everything from unlikely business success stories (the Dollywood theme park) to Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library, which has distributed more than 150 million books to instill a love of reading in young people. In music, Parton explored genres and wrote and performed lyrics that were seen as progressive in their era, speaking directly to working-class women who felt like they weren’t being given a voice. They had at least one—Parton’s. —JR 96. Cecilia Payne

Mary Seacole was a natural born healer. Though she’s often referred to as the first nurse practitioner, she had no formal training in nursing—because she lived in a time where no formal institutions for such education existed. Even if they had, it’s doubtful that Seacole, who was born in Jamaica in 1805, would have been welcome; as the daughter of a Jamaican mother and a Scottish father, Seacole dealt with prejudice throughout her life because of her mixed race. But that didn’t stop her from offering a hand when she could. Women are incredible. You can have a 'Top 1,000' influential women' and not be anywhere close to including all of them. Even though I was questioning a few of the inclusions in this book, it was still a solid foundation for readers. If you have limited knowledge on people like Rosa Parks and Marie Curie, this is a great book for you. This no doubt takes us to some fine examples of the Suffragette Movement and feminist literature and magazines. Which of them stood out in particular?

As a schoolgirl, Sophie Scholl joined the League of German Girls along with her peers, but later grew skeptical. While at the University of Munich, she joined the Weiße Rose (White Rose), a protest group her brother Hans had started. The rebel students wrote and distributed leaflets urging the public to resist the Nazi regime. The two Scholl siblings and one other White Rose member were caught on February 18 and arrested for treason. The three were beheaded by guillotine just four days later. But Scholl’s belief in her mission never wavered: Years later, Scholl’s cellmate recalled that before her death, Scholl said, “Such a fine, sunny day, and I have to go ... What does my death matter, if through us, thousands of people are awakened and stirred to action?” —KW 111. Mary Seacole Mary Wollstonecraft is the mother of Mary Shelley, writer of Frankenstein. / Culture Club/Getty ImagesLove begins at home, and it is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the action that we do.” Mother Teresa TR: Yes, the delicate combination of colour and fabric in the Sonia Delaunay volume is stunning. She had such a fresh, innovative approach to fashion in the Jazz age, and her geometric designs are far from the typical flapper girl aesthetic you might associate with the era. The rare inscribed copy of Mary Gartside’s first book was also a great discovery. She was the first woman in the Western world to publish a book on colour and discuss colour theory, but until recently, she had almost disappeared from history. Her work predates that of more recognised and quoted male colour theorists, such as James Sowerby and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. When her mother tragically died when Ginsburg was young, her mother’s intelligence inspired her feminism, and her intellect and drive took her to Cornell University. From Madame Curie who discovered radiation to Sally Ride, the first woman to go to space, this New York Times bestselling book shows that science is no man’s field.