Aung San Suu Kyi – A force for democracy in Burma, she is an opposition politician who spent 15 of the past 22 years in jail for her activism.

Germaine Greer is an Australian writer, academic, journalist and scholar of early modern English literature and is widely regarded as one of the most significant feminist voices of the later 20th century

Rosa Parks – In December 1, 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks, age 42, refused to give up her seat to make room for a white passenger. She was later known as the first lady of civil rights and the mother of the freedom movement.

Somaly Mam – a Cambodian author and human rights advocate, focusing primarily on needs of victims of human sex trafficking.

Agatha Christie – British crime writer of novels, short stories, and plays. She also wrote romances under the name Mary…