Amelia to Zora: twenty-six women who changed the world

Amelia Earhart (1897-1937), pilot

Babe Didrikson Zaharias (1914-1956), athlete

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (1900-1980), astronomer

Dolores Huerta (1930- ), union co-founder

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962), first lady

Frida Kahlo (1907-1954), painter

Grace Hopper (1906-1992), computer scientist

Helen Keller (1880-1968), advocate for the disabled

Imogen Cunningham (1883-1976), photographer

Jane Goodall (1934- ), naturalist

Kristi Yamaguchi (1971- ), ice skating champion

Lena Horne (1917- ), entertainer

Maya Lin (1959- ), architect

Nawal El Sadaawi (1931- ), women's rights activist

Oprah Winfrey (1954- ), talk show host

Patricia Schroeder (1940- ), congresswoman

Quah Ah (1893-1949), artist

Rachel Carson (1907-1964), environmentalist

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi (1945- ), democratic leader

Mother Teresa (1910-1997), servant of the poor

Ursula Le Guin (1929- ), writer

Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit (1900-1990), diplomat

Wilma Mankiller (1945- ), chief of the Cherokee nation

Chen Xiefen (1883-1923), journalist

Yoshiko Uchida (1922-1992), writer

Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960), anthropologist, writer.