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Marguerite Duras (1914-1996)
film director, playwright, autobiographer, journalist, women's rights activist, philosopher, director
- University of Paris
Susan Sontag (1933-2004)
film director, professor, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, journalist, women's rights activist, film critic, theatrical director, human rights activist, historian, opinion journalist
- University of Paris, Harvard University
Evelyn Fox Keller (1936-2023)
physicist, philosopher, academic, biographer, women's rights activist, biologist, feminist
- Harvard University, Brandeis University
Agnes Smedley (1892-1950)
journalist, women's rights activist
Robin Morgan (born 1941)
poet, journalist, activist, editor, actor, women's rights activist, political scientist, voice actor, political activist
- Columbia University
Susan Glaspell (1876-1948)
journalist, playwright, biographer, women's rights activist, actor
- Drake University, University of Chicago
Andrée Chedid (1920-2011)
poet, women's rights activist, playwright
- The American University in Cairo
Susan Griffin (born 1943)
women's rights activist, poet, environmentalist
- San Francisco State University