Walker-first female American millionaire, Aung San Suu Kyi-Burma's first lady of freedom, Betty Shabazz-civil rights activist, Nellie Sachs-Holocaust survivor and Nobel Prize recipient, Selma Lagerlof-first woman Nobel Laureate, Fannie Lou Hamer-American voting rights activist, Bessie Coleman-first African-American female pilot, Wilma Randolph-first woman to win three gold medals, Sonia Sotomayor-first Hispanic Supreme Court justice, Wangari Maathai-Nobel Prize winner, Winnifred Mandela-freedom fighter,, Lois Wilson-founder of Al-Anon, Roxanne Quimby-co-founder of Burt's Bees. Home Still I Rise: The Persistence of Phenomenal Women (Celebrating Women, Book for Girls) (Paperback) By Marlene Wagman-Geller Description. Great Second Acts: In Praise of Older Women Women Who Launch: Women Who Shattered Glass Ceilings Still I Rise: The Persistence of. Women celebrated in the book include Madame C.

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ğeatures empowering quotes from strong women and those who refused to be kept down. Still I Rise takes its title from a work by Maya Angelou and it resonates with the same spirit of an unconquerable soul, a woman who is captain of her fate.

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