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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
Marge Piercy (born 1936)
poet, women's rights activist, activist, climate activist
- University of Michigan, Northwestern University
Adrienne Rich (1929-2012)
poet, essayist, women's rights activist, peace activist
- Radcliffe College, Harvard University
Carl Jonas Love Almqvist (1793-1866)
composer, poet, journalist, school teacher, playwright, women's rights activist, priest
- Uppsala University
Nh. Dini (1936-2018)
women's rights activist
Harriet Martineau (1802-1876)
linguist, journalist, economist, historian, translator, sociologist, essayist, women's rights activist, philosopher, geographer, suffragist
Aphra Behn (1640-1689)
playwright, translator, poet, women's rights activist
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902)
actor, women's rights activist, abolitionist
- Emma Willard School