A Century (or More) of Female Empowerment

by Katie Shaw, Maggie Fontaine, Olyvia Bergeron, and Hannah Denis

Women Writers We Love to Read

Writers:

●        Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
Born in Amherst, Massachusetts
Poet
True feminism was a thing yet, but nowadays she embodies the definition
Wrote about what she knew and what intrigued her

●        Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)
Born in Germantown, Philadelphia, PA
Writer and poet
She started receiving critical success in her writing in the 1860s.
Her pen name was A. M. Barnard.
She wrote novels for young adults about spies and revenge.
She was an abolitionist, feminist, and remained unmarried throughout her life.
“I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning to sail my own ship”

●        Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)
American poet and novelist
Known as a “confessional” writer
Advocate for feminism
“If you expect nothing from anybody, you’ll never be disappointed”

●        Rupi Kaur (1992-still alive)
Advocate for people of color and feminism
Indian Immigrant in Canada
Outspoken Feminist
“Insta poet”
Author of milk and honey and the sun and her flowers
“i stand
on the sacrifices
of a million women before me
thinking
what can i do
to make the mountain taller
so the women after me can see farther

Other Writers We Like:

●        Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909)

●        Kate Chopin (1850-1904)

●        Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935)

●        Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986)

●        Judith Butler (1956-present)

●        Alice Walker (1944-present)

●        Oprah Winfrey (1954-present)

●        JK Rowling (1965-present)

“Where there is no struggle, there is no strength”

                                                —Oprah Winfrey

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