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The Ladies of History

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Behold, history's most successful women who worked themselves from the bottom up!

Empress Theodora (left) was the co-ruler of the Byzantine Empire in the 5th century. She was one of the world's first truly feminist leaders, passing laws that made rape a crime punishable by death and establishing basic property rights for women.

Empress Wu Zetian (center) embodied cute-Asian-girl-who-could-easily-kick-...your-butt-and-hand-it-back-to-you archetype. Don't ever make her mad.

Nell Gwynn was a concubine of Charles II who helped found one of the first VA hospitals in London. She also was totally unashamed of her past, and when an argument broke out on why there was a wh*re in the Catholic court, she calmly said, "Good people, you are mistaken. I am the Protestant wh*re."
Yeah, hard to shame someone who has none :P

For more interesting women born in a low place but worked their way up, read
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Theodora was truly an impressive one, she managed to hold the empire together during a plague even when her childless husband was infected and managed to save her husband's throne.