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Malala Yousafzai (born 1997)
blogger, human rights activist, memoirist, women's rights activist
- University of Oxford
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)
essayist, autobiographer, diarist, literary critic, publisher, women's rights activist
- King's College London
Audre Lorde (1934-1992)
librarian, poet, women's rights activist, essayist, teacher, feminist, philosopher
- Columbia University, Hunter College
Waris Dirie (born 1965)
model, autobiographer, women's rights activist, film actor, goodwill ambassador, actor, humanitarian
Harriet Martineau (1802-1876)
linguist, journalist, economist, historian, translator, sociologist, essayist, women's rights activist, philosopher, geographer, suffragist
Malalai Joya (born 1978)
politician, women's rights activist
Waleed Al-Husseini (born 1989)
essayist, philosopher, blogger, organizational founder, teacher, women's rights activist
- Arab American University
Elizabeth Benger (1775-1827)
linguist, women's rights activist, biographer, translator