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Barack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama II is an American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the first African American president. Obama previously served as a U.S. senator representing Illinois from 2005 to 2008 and as an Illinois state senator from 1997 to 2004.
Helen Keller
American deafblind author, political activist, lecturer, scholar (1880-1968)
Eleanor Roosevelt
American diplomat and activist, First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945 (1884–1962)
Toni Morrison
African American novelist, essayist, and academic (1931–2019)
Salman Rushdie
Indian-born British-American novelist (born 1947)
Emma Goldman
Russian-born American anarchist (1869–1940)
Louisa May Alcott
American novelist (1832–1888)
Ursula K. Le Guin
American fantasy and science fiction author (1929–2018)
Gillian Anderson
Gillian Leigh Anderson is an American actress. Her credits include the roles of FBI Special Agent Dana Scully in the series The X-Files, socialite Lily Bart in Terence Davies's film The House of Mirth (2000), DSU Stella Gibson in the BBC/RTÉ crime drama television series The Fall, sex therapist Jean Milburn in the Netflix comedy-drama Sex Education, and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the fourth season of Netflix drama series The Crown. Among other honors, she has won two Primetime Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and four Screen Actors Guild Awards. She has resided in London since 2002, after earlier years divided between the United Kingdom and the United States.
Isabel Allende
Chilean writer
Diane Keaton
Diane Keaton Hall was an American actress. Her career spanned more than five decades, during which she rose to prominence in the New Hollywood movement. She collaborated frequently with Woody Allen, appearing in eight of his films. Keaton's accolades include an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, and two Golden Globe Awards, along with nominations for two Emmy Awards and a Tony Award. She was honored with the Film at Lincoln Center Gala Tribute in 2007 and the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2017.
Alice Walker
American author and activist (born 1944)
Susan Sontag
American writer and filmmaker, professor, and activist (1933–2004)
Judith Butler
American feminist gender studies philosopher (born 1956)
Angela Davis
American political activist, scholar, and author (born 1944)
Gertrude Stein
American author (1874–1946)
Gloria Steinem
American activist and journalist (born 1934)
L. Frank Baum
American author of children's books (1856–1919)
Betty Ford
First Lady of the United States from 1974 to 1977
Betty Friedan
American feminist writer and activist (1921–2006)
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
American actor and filmmaker (born 1981)
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Dutch-American political activist and author
Tori Amos
American singer-songwriter and pianist
Sheryl Sandberg
American technology executive, activist, and author
Margaret Sanger
American birth control activist and nurse (1879–1966)
Robert E. Howard
American author (1906–1936)
Erica Jong
American novelist, poet, memoirist, critic
bell hooks
American author and activist (1952–2021)
Audre Lorde
American writer and feminist activist (1934–1992)
Edna St. Vincent Millay
American poet (1892–1950)
Joss Whedon
American director, screenwriter, and producer (born 1964)
Andrea Dworkin
American feminist writer (1946–2005)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
American feminist, writer, artist, and lecturer (1860–1935)
Margaret Fuller
American writer and women's activist (1810–1850)
Adrienne Rich
American poet, essayist and feminist (1929–2012)
Howard Zinn
American historian, playwright, and socialist thinker (1922–2010)
Dorothy Day
American journalist, social activist, and Catholic convert (1897-1980)
Rashida Jones
American actress, writer, and producer (born 1976)
Octavia E. Butler
American science fiction writer (1947-2006)
Anne Sexton
American poet (1928–1974)
Kate Millett
American writer, educator, artist, and activist (1934–2017)
Valerie Solanas
American radical feminist and author (1936-1988)
Martha Nussbaum
American philosopher (born 1947)
Marion Zimmer Bradley
American novelist and editor (1930–1999)
H.D.
Hilda Doolittle (September 10, 1886 – September 27, 1961) was an American modernist poet, novelist, and memoirist who wrote under the name H.D. throughout her life. Her career began in 1911 after she moved to London and co-founded the avant-garde Imagist group of poets with American expatriate poet and critic Ezra Pound. During this early period, her minimalist free verse poems depicting Classical motifs drew international attention. Eventually distancing herself from the Imagist movement, she experimented with a wider variety of forms, including fiction, memoir, and verse drama. Reflecti
Camille Paglia
American feminist academic and critic (born 1947)
Masih Alinejad
Iranian-born journalist
Nina Hartley
American pornographic actress (born 1959)
Naomi Wolf
American feminist and journalist (born 1962)
Shulamith Firestone
Canadian born US feminist scholar, activist and writer (1945-2012)
Mary Daly
American feminist philosopher and theologian (1928–2010)
Donna Haraway
American philosopher, scholar in the field of science and technology studies
Amber Tamblyn
American actress and writer
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
American politician (1890-1964)
Kathy Acker
American novelist, playwright, essayist, and poet (1947–1997)
Emma Lazarus
American poet (1849–1887)
Paulina Porizkova
Czech-American model and actress
Sondra Locke
American actress (1944–2018)
Catharine MacKinnon
American feminist and legal activist
Clarissa Pinkola Estés
American psychoanalyst and writer