Even after stepping down as a world leader this woman stayed in Parliament and later moved on to the House of Lords

In 1978 she co-hosted People Are Talking in Baltimore but we bet she's the only host who became a multibillionaire

An assistant attorney general in Arizona in 1965 she got a nifty promotion in 1981: Supreme Court justice

Ooh la la! The little black dress first got put on--& put out--by this designer in the 1920s

Her fight against gorilla poachers intensified in 1978 after the killing of Digit one of her favorite animals

Ann Bancroft (not the actress) became the first woman to reach this spot by sled & on foot

This etiquette expert also wrote the 1905 novel Purple and Fine Linen

With husband H.A. Margret Rey fled the Nazis carrying the manuscript for their story about this impish monkey

This ex-Secretary of State wrote Extraordinary Ordinary People about growing up in Birmingham Alabama

She painted herself wearing a necklace of thorns symbolizing the pain in her life

In a 2015 HBO biopic Queen Latifah portrayed this legendary blues singer

A bridge on Congress Avenue in Austin Texas is named for this feisty late governor

In the 1920s she organized a birth control conference in NYC & a world population conference in Geneva

As queen of the Netherlands she saw her country through 2 World Wars

The first name of this 1980s political leader of the Philippines means heart in Spanish

She joined the Sisters of Notre Dame at age 16; her career as an art expert came later

Margaret Mead's first book was Coming of Age in this place

This president of Liberia shared the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize

Sophia Packard & Harriet Giles co-founded what became this Atlanta college for African-American women

This first woman on the Supreme Court left the court in 2006

Her grave marker in Africa says No one loved gorillas more

Isak Dinesen wrote in both English & this her native language

This Italian-born woman was famous for her educational methods

Piloting Vostok 6 she orbited the Earth 48 times during her trip into space in 1963

The woman who started 1956 as Golda Myerson ended it as this at the insistence of her boss David Ben-Gurion