WOMEN WHO CHANGED THE WORLD

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Vocês também se incomodam quando veem que os grandes feitos da história, contados nos livros, foram realizados em sua maioria por homens? Onde estavam as mulheres? Por que desconhecemos muitas histórias de mulheres que contribuiram para que mudanças importantes acontecessem?

Have you ever heard about these great women?

Vocês já ouviram falar dessas grandes mulheres?

They are women that had biggest impact on history because of their influential and importance to change the world.

Elas são mulheres que tiveram um grande impacto na história por conta de sua influência e importância para mudar o mundo.

Quebrando o tabu:

Se somos a favor da igualdade de direitos e oportunidades para homens e mulheres, então somos FEMINISTAS! E, por isso, devemos defender uma cultura onde as mulheres são reconhecidas pelas suas conquistas. 

SO...

Além da videoaula, trago pra vocês trechos das biografias e frases ditas por AMAZING AND IMPORTANT WOMEN.

Enjoy it! 

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

 Nigerian writer, speaker, and activist, Chimamanda Adichie, is beloved by many. The award winning novelist and Ted talk sensation is fiercely revered for being a thought leader on Africa and contemporary African politics.

 “Culture does not make people. People make culture. If it is true that the full humanity of women is not our culture, then we can and must make it our culture.”

“Please love by giving and by taking. Give and be given. If you are only giving and not taking, you’ll know. You’ll know from that small and true voice inside you that we females are so often socialized to silence. Don’t silence that voice. Dare to take.”

 

Carrie Fisher

She was an American actress, writer, and comedian.^[3] Fisher is known for playing Princess Leia in the Star Wars films

“Do not let what you think they think of you make you stop and question everything you are.”

“I don’t want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.”

 

Frida Kahlo

Painter Frida Kahlo was a Mexican artist who was married to Diego Rivera and is still admired as a feminist icon. Artist Frida Kahlo was considered one of Mexico's greatest artists who began painting mostly self-portraits after she was severely injured in a bus accident. Kahlo later became politically active and married fellow communist artist Diego Rivera in 1929. She exhibited her paintings in Paris and Mexico before her death in 1954.

“Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?”

“I was a child who went about in a world of colors… My friends, my companions, became women slowly; I became old in instants.”

 

Harriet Tubman

Harriet Tubman escaped slavery to become a leading abolitionist. She led hundreds of enslaved people to freedom along the route of the Underground Railroad.

Born into slavery in Maryland, Harriet Tubman escaped to freedom in the North in 1849 to become the most famous "conductor" on the Underground Railroad. Tubman risked her life to lead hundreds of family members and other slaves from the plantation system to freedom on this elaborate secret network of safe houses. A leading abolitionist before the American Civil War, Tubman also helped the Union Army during the war, working as a spy among other roles.

“I grew up like a neglected weed, – ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it. Then I was not happy or contented.” 

“There are two things I’ve got a right to, and these are, Death or Liberty – one or the other I mean to have. No one will take me back alive; I shall fight for my liberty, and when the time has come for me to go, the Lord will let them, kill me”.

 

 

Rosa Parks

African American civil rights activist whose refusal to relinquish her seat on a public bus to a white man precipitated the 1955–56 Montgomery bus boycott in Alabama, which is recognized as the spark that ignited the U.S. civil rights movement.

• Rosa Parks was a lifelong activist, as was her husband.
• Rosa Parks was not the first black woman to refuse to move from her bus seat; Claudette Colvin had done the same nine months earlier, and countless women had before that.
• Rosa Parks called Malcolm X her hero, and they interacted several times during the American civil rights movement.

“I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people.”

“Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and, hopefully, we shall overcome.”

 

Malala Yousafzai

She is a Pakistani education advocate (ativist) who, at the age of 17, in 2014, became the youngest person to win a Nobel Prize, after surviving an assassination attempt by the Taliban. On October 9, 2012, a gunman shot Malala when she was traveling home from school. She survived and has continued to speak out on the importance of education. In 2013, she gave a speech to the United Nations and published her first book, I am Malala.

“We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back.”

 “We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced.”

 “One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world.”

“If one man can destroy everything, why can’t one girl change it?”

 

Joy Harjo

Joy Harjo, (born May 9, 1951, Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S.), American poet, writer, academic, musician, and Native American activist whose poems featured Indian symbolism, imagery, history, and ideas set within a universal context. Her poetry also dealt with social and personal issues, notably feminism, and with music, particularly jazz.

In addition to her literary output, Harjo played saxophone and was a vocalist with her own band, Poetic Justice, and with Arrow Dynamics, a group with which she toured. In 2009 she was the recipient of a Native American Music Award for best female artist of the year.

“There is no poetry where there are no mistakes.”

“I was born with eyes that can never close...”

“To pray you open your whole self
To sky, to earth, to sun, to moon
To one whole voice that is you
And know there is more
That you can't see, can't hear
Can't know except in moments
Steadly growing, and in languages
That aren't always sound but other
Circles of motion.
Like eagle that Sunday morning
Over Salt River. Circled in blue sky
In wind, swept our hearts clean
With sacred wings.
We see you, see ourselves and know
That we must take the utmost care
And kindness in all things.
Breathe in, knowing we are made of
All this, and breathe, knowing
We are truly blessed because we
Were born, and die soon within a
True circle of motion,
Like eagle rounding out the morning
Inside us.
We pray that it will be done
In beauty.
In beauty.”
― Joy Harjo

 

Marie Curie

Marie Curie was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in two different categories — physics and chemistry — and the first woman to obtain a PhD degree from a French University.

“We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.”

“Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.”

 

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Ruth Bader Ginsburg became just the second female U.S. Supreme Court justice when she took the oath of office on August 10, 1993. She faced workplace discrimination in the 1960s despite graduating first in her class at Columbia Law School in 1959. Ginsburg has long been a forceful advocate of women's rights and gender equality, and she has earned the deep and abiding respect of her colleagues on the Court along with the American Public.

"Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you."

"Women belong in all places where decisions are being made. It shouldn't be that women are the exception."

 

Amelia Earhart

Exactly eighty years after her mysterious disappearance while attempting to circumnavigate the globe, pioneering aviator Amelia Earhart continues to hold a mythic place in the popular imagination. The first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, Earhart’s legendary feats are the very emblem of courage — and of a woman who refused to let fears and adversity ground her dreams.

“Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off! But if you don’t have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you.”