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Profiles in the courage of great women, Still I Rise tells fresh, engaging, and amazing tales of perseverance and ultimate success with well-researched and riveting biographies from independent scholar and teacher, Marlene Wagman-Geller. It features an array of diverse figures from the first female African American Inaugural poet, Maya Angelou to Nobel laureate and Holocaust survivor Nellie Sachs to SCOTUS' own Justice Sonia Sotomayor and natural...
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From the author of Women of Means, Unabashed Women consists of vignettes of the women who defied the mores of conventional society to live the lives they chose, regardless of cost. They are the embodiment of the quotation, "Well-behaved women seldom make history."
The good girls, those who tread the conventional path, are as memorable as grains of sand on a beach, washed away by the waves of time. In contrast, the rebel women, those who listened...
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