Though her clerks had to explain it to her she's fond of her nickname Notorious RBG

During WWI she supported the French war effort by fitting ambulances with portable X-ray equipment

She made her first entry in her famous diary on June 14 1942 after receiving it as a gift for her 13th birthday

In 1952 this pioneering writer on the environment was the first woman to win a National Book Award for nonfiction.

Josephine Esther Mentzer was the birth name of this founder of a fragrance & cosmetics empire

A headlining star of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show in the 19th century she was a champion sharpshooter at age 15

Dolores Huerta co-founded this migrant laborers association in 1962 & served as its vice president for nearly 4 decades

She had taken a major role in the family business even before her brother Gianni's tragic death in 1997

This temperance crusader gave lectures billed as The Famous & Original Bar Room Smasher

The longest-serving female U.S. senator in history Barbara Mikulski represented this state from 1987 to 2017