Rejected Princesses » Modern Worthies

As a Holocaust survivor, her poetry was too dark for some, but it was perfect for death metal.

https://www.rejectedprincesses.com/blog/modern-worthies/inge-ginsberg

At age 101, this woman was one of the last surviving female pilots from WW2, and older than the Royal Air Force by one year - she died today.

https://www.rejectedprincesses.com/blog/modern-worthies/mary-ellis

She wrote 270 Wikipedia articles in a single year -- “I had a target for doing one a day, but sometimes I get too excited and do three.”

https://www.rejectedprincesses.com/blog/modern-worthies/jess-wade

Men? Mountaineer Miriam O’Brien Underhill Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Men – She pioneered and argued for “manless” climbing in a hugely influential 1934 essay. From an essay she wrote: I s...

https://www.rejectedprincesses.com/blog/modern-worthies/miriam-obrien-underhill

She was attacked while putting up a “Women who behave rarely make history” bumper sticker on her truck. No, seriously.

https://www.rejectedprincesses.com/blog/modern-worthies/dede-phillips

She was the first black woman in North America to edit and publish a newspaper, one of the first black female lawyers in the United States and an advocate for granting women the right to vote.

https://www.rejectedprincesses.com/blog/modern-worthies/mary-ann-shadd-cary

She’s the first female composer to score a major superhero movie, with the female-led Captain Marvel.

https://www.rejectedprincesses.com/blog/pinar-toprak

Forced to marry a mobster, she escaped, ran for parliament and won -- while obscuring her face. But now, she's showing it freely.

https://www.rejectedprincesses.com/blog/piera-aiello

The publisher of America's first newspaper by and for women - and someone sadly overshadowed by her more-famous contemporaries.

https://www.rejectedprincesses.com/blog/modern-worthies/amelia-bloomer

This 15-year-old Pakistani girl who drives motorcycles, rickshaws, and garbage trucks to help earn money for her family. She is also a medal-winning boxer and a teacher.

https://www.rejectedprincesses.com/blog/nida-khan