Cedar Crest Celebrates
Women's History Month
Test your knowledge to see if you can identify this influential women. More women will be added as the month goes on.
"Be less
curious about people and more curious about ideas."
Marie Curie
A physicist and chemist know for the theory of radioactivity and the discovery of two elements, radium and polonium. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics and the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. She founded the Curie Institute a leading medical research center.
"My only concern was to get home after a hard day's work."
Rosa Parks
She was the colored female sitting in the white section of the bus, who would not move back. Rosa worked with NAACP is use this small act of disobedience to launch the bus boycott and victory for the Civil Rights Movement.
"A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle."
Gloria Steinem
Pioneering feminist, journalist, lecturer, columnist for New York Magazine and co-founder of Ms. Magazine. Ms. Steinam helped to found the Womens Action Alliance, National Womens Political Caucus, and the Womens Media Center.
"The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm."
Florence Nightingale
Florence turned nursing into a respectable profession for women by her tireless work for the British army during the Crimean War. She improved hygiene in the hospitals and reduced the death rate by two thirds. By making rounds as night with a lamp, she became known as the 'Lady with the Lamp.'
Florence was a powerful healthcare reformer, and created the first organized training school for nurses.
"The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive."
Betty Friedan
Leading figure in the Woman's Movement and author of The Feminine Mystique, celebrating its 50th anniversary of publication. Betty founded NOW and backed the Equal Rights Amendment through its passage by both houses of Congress in 1972 and went to the state legislatures for ratification. The ERA failed to receive the requisite number of ratifications before the deadline mandated by Congress of 1982. The Equal Rights Amendment was not adopted.
"Men's rights are nothing more. Women's rights are nothing less."
Susan B. Anthony
1852 joined the womens right movement and dedicated her life to Women's Suffrage. She fought for women to vote, own property and retain their earnings. She advocated to abolish slavery and for full citizenship for blacks & women.
"If you want something said, ask a man... if you want something done, ask a woman."
Margaret Thatcher
British Prime Minister 1979-1990
Nicknamed the Iron Lady, she was one of the world's most influential political leaders. Her tough conservative stances shifted politics to the right and revived the British economy.
"We must prepare young people for a brain-centered economy whose one constant is rapid change."
Janet Napolitano
Secretary, Department of Homeland Security, United States
Governor of Arizona 2003-2009
Women are surging to the top of national security, bringing new perspectives and problem-solving abilities.
"If a country doesn't recognize minority rights
and human rights,
including women's rights, you will
not have the kind
of stability and prosperity that is possible."
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Writer and anti-slavery campaigner.
She is best known for her book 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' This was a vivid depiction of slavery and its human cost. She met with President Lincoln and was called 'the little woman who started the big war.'
"If a country doesn't recognize minority rights
and human rights,
including women's rights, you will
not have the kind
of stability and prosperity that is possible.
."
Hillary Clinton
67th United States Secretary of State 2009-2013
United States Senator from New York 2001-2009
First Lady of the United States 1993-2001
No-nonsense and well traveled diplomat. Will she run again?
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."
Margaret Mead
American cultural anthropologist
PosthumouslyIn awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1979 by President Carter.
"Margaret Mead was both a student of civilization and an exemplar of it. To a public of millions, she brought the central insight of cultural anthropology: that varying cultural patterns express an underlying human unity. She mastered her discipline, but she also transcended it. Intrepid, independent, plain spoken, fearless, she remains a model for the young and a teacher from whom all may learn."
"What would you do if you weren't afraid?"
Sheryl Sandberg
Facebook Chief Operating Officer
Author of Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
Sheryl is listed by Time and Forbes on lists of top professionals. To answer her question, she would speak out more on behalf of women.
Click for the latest news about Sheryl
President Ambar talks on WFMZ about Sheryl Sandberg's book Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead, and how women can have it all.
"Democracy is necessary to peace and to undermining the forces of terrorism."
Benazir Bhutto
Prime Minister of Pakistan
1993-1996;1988-1990
2008 Winner of the United Nations Prize in the Field if Human Rights (posthumous)
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