Inspirational Women By: Jennifer Sullivan One woman can inspire a nation! A Fight For Women’s Rights Elizabeth Cady Stanton Susan B. Anthony Jane Addams Shirley Chisholm Rosa Parks Maya Angelou Amelia Earhart paved the way for other women to enter the aviation field. Mae Jemison was the first African-American woman to explore space on the shuttle Endeavor. http://www.wai.org/pioneers/2005pioneers.cfm Helen Keller Determined Advocate Blind Deaf Author Speaker Courageous President Coolidge and Helen Keller Freedom and Equality for all! Women’s Words Of Wisdom Ella Fitzgerald (1917 - 1996) Jazz singer Zora Neale Hurston (1901-1960)Anthropologist & author “Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.” Abigail Adams (1744-1818) - First lady “If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation.” “Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.” Marian Anderson (1897 - 1993) Singer “As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold the person down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.”