Ma| Motherhood Moment / Women's History Titles from Mango.

Other books for girls you may want to read include The Book of Awesome Women, Women Who Launch, and The Book of Awesome Black Women.

Roxanne Quimby - co-founder of Burt’s Bees.

Sonia Sotomayor - first Hispanic Supreme Court justice.

Wilma Rudolph - first woman to win three gold medals.

Bessie Coleman - first African American female pilot.

Fannie Lou Hamer - American voting rights activist.

Selma Lagerlof - first woman Nobel Laureate.Nellie Sachs - Holocaust survivor and Nobel Prize recipient.Aung San Suu Kyi - Burma’s first lady of freedom.Walker - first female American millionaire Each chapter outlines the fall and rise of great women heroes who shattered all obstacles, rather than let those obstacles shatter them.

Still I Rise embodies the strength of character of inspiring women. Just as Invictus brought solace to generations, so does Maya Angelou’s contemporary classic.” -The Library BlogĬelebrate girl power. Still I Rise takes its title from a work by Maya Angelou and it resonates with the same spirit of an unconquerable soul, a woman who is captain of her fate. Invictus, the inspirational verse by the Victorian William Ernest Henley, was penned on the occasion of the amputation of his leg. Rad Women Worldwide. “When Nelson Mandela was imprisoned in South Africa’s brutal Robben Prison, he tirelessly turned to the poem Invictus. Intrepid women heroes are the antithesis of the traditional damsels in distress rather than waiting for the prince, they took salvation into their own hands. “If you need a little encouragement in your life during these difficult times, the lives of these women will give you hope.” - Says Me Says Mom Great Women Leaders in History Who Personify Girl Power

Still I Rise by Marlene Wagman-Geller