14 Inspiring female influencers

So we all know Instagram Influencers, don’t we? Fitness, fashion, cooking, beauty etc etc there are several female social media influencers nowadays. Technology has made it way easier to reach masses and influence them. But it wasn’t always like that. Many female figures who fought their way through life and in that process inspired hundreds and thousands of others to do the same. Today in this blog I will talk about 14 such women who have inspired people all across the globe.  

Now now don’t worry this blog is going to be very very interesting so I insist that you stay with me till the very end. 

1. Maya Angelou

She was an American poet, filmmaker, actor, dancer, civil rights activist, and much more. She was a phenomenal woman; she was very outspoken and ahead for her time. In her youth where blacks were condemned for doing anything they wanted, she became the FIRST BLACK WOMAN TO CONDUCT A CABLE CAR IN SAN FRANCISCO. I mean wow! She could speak six languages and wrote her Autobiography when Black women were not allowed to express themselves. She wrote many poems and all of her poems are my absolute favourite. 

2. Princess Diana

Imagine being wedded to a Prince. This must sound very dreamy but her life was not what I would say a happily married life. After she was divorced from Prince Charles. Later she devoted her life to charity; she played a significant and active role in the International Campaign to Ban Landmines. She worked towards a ban on anti-personnel mines, and this campaign won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1997. Diana was concerned about the injuries that occurred to the landmine workers, especially children.

3. Shakuntala Devi

She was known as the human-computer and also had her name in the guniess world book of records for her skill of long multiplications At Imperial College on June 18, 1980, Shakuntala Devi was asked to multiply two 13-digit numbers: 7,686,369,774,870 × 2,465,099,745,779. She got the answer in 28 seconds — 18,947,668,177,995,426,462,773,730. I mean just WOW! I would not be able to do that even with a calculator. ( Okey I’m gonna stop comparing myself to a legend)

4. Billie Jean King

Have you people seen the movie “battle of sexes”? It’s a movie based on what Billie is famous for. Can you take a guess? For it’s for kicking chauvinistic male society in this face. Billie Jean King is an American former World No. 1 professional tennis player. King won 39 Grand Slam titles. She is the first female athlete to earn more than $100,000 in prize money in a single season, she was also the first woman to be chosen Sports Illustrated’s “Sportsperson of the Year.” The trailblazing athlete was best known for her 1973 “Battle of the Sexes” match against Bobby Riggs, in which she beat the former No. 1 ranked player and self-proclaimed male chauvinist. Isn’t she a badass? 

6. Lakshmi Sahagal 

Lakshmi Swaminathan, popular as Capt. Lakshmi Sahgal; A Padma Vibhushan awardee in the year 1998 was a significant voice of Indian women’s movement before the Independence and later as well. She was a revolutionary of the Indian independence movement, an officer of the Indian National Army, and the Minister of Women’s Affairs in the Azad Hind government. Sahgal is commonly referred to in India as Captain Lakshmi, a reference to her rank when taken prisoner in Burma during the Second World War.

7. Marilyn Monroe

She was what I would say top paid actress of her time. It could easily be argued that Marilyn suffered frequent frustration because people wanted to pigeonhole her into being just one kind of personality. This undoubtedly came as a result of her unique and modern outlook on life—one more fitting to the twenty-first century rather than the 1950s. She was a modern-day feminist, though the very idea struck the nerves of many at the time. 

8. Mary Kom

She is a boxer, a mother and in a nutshell what I’d say that she is a Superwoman. Choosing a career in boxing is always a tough challenge for any woman. Her father was completely against this choice but she has fought against all odds and the rest is history today. 

9. JK Rowling

Everybody knows her for being the author of Harry potter. I am personally a very big fan of her work. After sending her manuscript to 12 different publishers and getting rejected by every single one, Rowling began losing confidence in her book. Finally, the editor at Bloomsbury Publishing company sat down to read the manuscript. And so did the editor’s 8-year-old daughter. The little girl loved the opening chapters and begged to read the whole thing. This made the publisher agree to publish Rowling’s novel. But Rowling was left with a warning: that she should get a day job because she wouldn’t make any money writing children’s books. Once Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone was published, though, she proved everyone wrong. 

10. Salumarada Thimmakka

Karnataka-based environmentalist Saalumarada Thimmakka has been named one of the 100 influential and inspirational women by the BBC in its recently released 100 Women 2016 list. She is the oldest woman on the list for planning the 8,000 trees to fill the void that had been left after she realized she could not bear children. She has also won the prestigious Padma Shri. 

11. Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf was one of the most important female authors in the transitional period from the Victorian age to the Edwardian age. Until her death, at the age of 59, she published several novels, feminist essays and held two classes in Cambridge about “Women and Fiction”. She is what I would refer to as the epitome of Feminism. Virginia Woolf’s major contribution to literature is typically thought to be her feminist critique of society. When considering the era in which Woolf was writing, women were expected to be submissive to their husbands, domestic figureheads, and guardians and primary educators of their children. 

12. Seema Rao 

She is sometimes referred to as India’s Wonder Woman, she is India’s first woman commando trainer, having trained Special Forces of India for over two decades without compensation. She is an expert in close quarter battle (CQB) — the art of fighting in tight proximity — and is involved in training various Indian forces. She works in partnership with Major Deepak Rao, her husband. Seema is a remarkable story of persistence and strength. As the Buddhist parable goes, the higher the rocks in its path, the greater the wave. Having spent her childhood in Mumbai being fearful and timid, she grew up to be a brave adult, who confronted each fear head-on and overcame it, no matter what it took.

13. Anne Frank

Remember Diary of the young girl? She is the one who wrote it. She in her diary (later published book) has explained the German holocaust. How she was able to survive in such dire situation and she was considered to be more mature for her age considering that she died at the age of 15 but her diary seems to be written by someone much mature for her age. 

13. Amelia Earhart 

Most of you people may know her and most of you may not. Earhart was the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. In addition to her piloting feats, Earhart was known for encouraging women to reject constrictive social norms and to pursue various opportunities, especially in the field of aviation.

14. Coco Chanel 

Yup, you guessed it! it’s The Coco Chanel! Her story is what I would say the perfect Rags to Riches tale. Born in dire poverty to unwed parents, she was shuffled off to an orphanage and raised by Catholic nuns after her mother died. Her childhood had instilled in Chanel resourcefulness and razor-sharp survival instincts, which were the keys to her success. 

There are many other women who have inspired us all the time! These are few 14 among them.

Thanks for Reading!