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    Posted: 02-Nov-2006 at 06:07
Whenever historical Icons are mentioned they're usually men but throughout our past there have been plenty of women who have made their mark too. So who is your Icon from history?
 
For me it's this woman;
 
 
Jacquline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onasis
 
She was the ultimate style icon and her natural beauty was nd still is admired worldwide. She was smart, funny and could hold her own in any situation. She was a caring wife and loving mother. As 1st Lady she was both glamourus and dignified.
 
But she had her share of hardships too. Her parents divorced when she was just 8. Then from age 22 she had to learn to cope constant public scrunity as the girlfriend and wife of JFK. She had to deal with his illness and philandering as well as painkiller addiction. Jackie herself suffered Post-Natal Depression after the birth of her son JohnJr.
 
She lost her two husbands and her son and a close friend (Bobby K) and then her own long brave battle with Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma. But she maintained her dignity and courage to the very end.
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Sonia Gandhi, the Roman Emperor  of present day India :
 
 
 
 
Sonia Manio, an Italian from Rome, met Rajiv Gandhi, the Son of Indian Premier Indira Gandhi in London, Something happened between the two, they got married, Rajiv became Prime  Minister after her Mother's assasination, to be assasinated himself. Sonia was asked to step in as Prime Minister or let her daughter Priyanka take over as the Prime minister, she refused fearing for their safety, but relented after nearly a decade & joined politics to become the ruler of present India.


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My history icon is this woman:


SUSAN B. ANTHONY

This woman was one of the greatest, IMO, activists for the advancement of women's rights and equality, and was a relentless suffragette, up until the time she died. Susan B. Anthony got the ball rolling on behalf of all women in the U.S. Without her, I don't think women would have advanced as far as they did.
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Vida Goldstein - feminist and political activist who campaigned for women's suffrage (1899 - 1908) in Victoria, Australia.
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Emily Davison, also a suffragette.

Obtained a first class honors degree at Oxford.

Campaigned for womens rights and was arrested and imprisoned on various occasions.

She went on hunger strike, was force fed and threw her self down a staircase in protest.

She was saved by some wire netting after falling 30 feet.

 

On June 11 1913 at the Epsom derby she ran out on to the hose track with a banner of the womens social and political union into the path of King George Vs horse and was trampled to death.

 

 

On 28th March 1918 women were granted the right to vote.

The first women to be elected as a member of parliament was Constance Markiewicz representing Sinn Fein.
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