The following outstanding women have achieved great heights in their pursuit to make the world a better place, making them the 16 women to have won the prestigious Nobel Peace Prize so far (1901-2014).
1905: Bertha von Suttner
1931: Jane Addams
1946: Emily Greene Balch
1976: Betty Williams
1976: Mairead Corrigan
1979: Mother Teresa
1982: Alva Myrdal
1991: Aung San Suu Kyi
1992: Rigoberta Menchú Tum
1997: Jody Williams
2003: Shirin Ebadi
2004: Wangari Muta Maathai
2011: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
2011: Leymah Gbowee
2011: Tawakkol Karman
2014: Malala Yousafzai
Jane Addams was nominated 91 times between 1916 and 1931, when she was finally awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. By contrast Emily Green Balch received the Nobel Peace Prize the first year that she were nominated.
Credit: Nobel Prize
Women of substance. Always standing tall even if it means standing alone. I aspire to be like or much better than they were and continue to be.
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