The word “woman” is believed to have derived from the Middle English term wyfman, broken down simply as the wife (wyf) of man.

 

In almost every country worldwide, the life expectancy for women is higher than for men.

 

Marie Curie became good friends with fellow scientist Albert Einstein.

 

Princess Diana's wedding was broadcast in 74 countries and watched by 750 million people worldwide. Her funeral 16 years later had 2.5 billion viewers.

 

Amelia Earhart was the first female, and one of only a few to date, to receive the Air Force Distinguished Flying Cross.

 

The first country to grant women the right to vote in the modern era was New Zealand in 1893.

 

Although Mother Teresa lived to be 87, she never saw her mother or sister again after the day she left for Ireland. 

 

Cleopatra had four children – only one survived to adulthood. 

 

Nightingale excelled at math from an early age.

 

Hillary Clinton once went flying with Amelia Earhart.

 

Eleanor Roosevelt Earned 35 Honorary Degrees.

 

The Queen sat for the first and only hologram portrait in 2003.

 

Margaret Thatcher's favourite colour is turquoise.

 

Apparently, Mary Anning was the inspiration for Terry Sullivan’s tongue twister, She Sells Seashells.

 

Cleopatra Was the Last Pharaoh of Egypt.

 

As a child, Oprah Winfrey was nicknamed "The Preacher" for her ability to recite Bible verses as her grandmother often took her to church.

 

After two years of enrolment, Angelina dropped out of her acting class from Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute to pursue her desire of becoming an undertaker or a funeral director. She went on to study embalming.

 

According to an ancient Sumerian legend, the universe was created by a female, the goddess Tiamat. 

 

Marie's husband Pierre was killed when he was run over by a carriage in Paris in 1906.

 

International Nurses Day is celebrated on May 12, on Nightingale's birthday.

 

It was said that Mary Anning could just glance at a fossil and immediately work out what it was and which dinosaur it came from.

 

Mother Teresa refused the traditional Nobel honor banquet, instead she requested that the $192,000 budget be given to help the poor of India. 

 

Young Hillary Rodham wasn’t initially interested in politics, she had dreamed of “becoming a baseball player, a journalist, and an astronaut.

 

Since 1952, The Queen has conferred over 387,700 honours and awards.

 

Eleanor Roosevelt helped draft the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

 

Helen Keller wrote to eight Presidents of the United States, and received letters from all of them—from Theodore Roosevelt in 1903 to Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965.

 

During the reign of Elizabeth I, there was a tax put on men's beards.

 

IN RUSSIAN THERE ARE 9 MILLION MORE WOMEN THAN MEN.

 

Women's hearts beat faster than men's.

 

Englands Queen Anne (1665-1714) outlived all 17 of her children.

 

Every 90 seconds, one woman dies during pregnancy/childbirth!!

 

Clinton has taught at the University of Arkansas Law School.

 

Women have more taste buds than men.

 

Helen was an excellent typist. She could use a standard typewriter as well as a braille writer. In fact, she was a better typist than her companions Anne Sullivan Macy and Polly Thomson.

 

Years after Earhart unexpectedly vanished, grief-stricken Roosevelt told the press “I am sure Amelia’s last words were ‘I have no regrets."

 

Women cry on average between 30 to 64 times a year, while men cry between 6 to 17 times only.

 

Queen Victoria was barely five feet tall. 

 

Cleopatra was not ethnically Egyptian, her heritage was Greek.

 

By age 23, Austen had finished the original versions of Northanger Abbey, Sense and Sensibility, and Pride and Prejudice.

 

Cleopatra became pharaoh when she was 18 years old.