Miss Independent: Four Women Who Make Us Proud to be Female

It's somethin' about her

'Cause she walk like a boss talk like a boss

Ooh there's somethin' about

Kinda woman that can do for herself

-Miss Independent, Ne-Yo

Jane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817)

Charlotte Brontë (21 April 1816 – 31 March 1855)

Artemisia Gentileschi (8 July 1593–ca. 1656)

Amelia Mary Earhart (born July 24, 1897; missing July 2, 1937)