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Oregon Women in the Law
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Portland's Black Women Civil Rights Pioneers
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Education
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Health/Medicine
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Legal/Judicial
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Management
Media/Entertainment
Mentoring
Military
Philanthropy
Politics
Religion
Science & Technology
Social Services
Volunteerism
Groups
Beach Girls
Fahey Horton Family
Forget-Me-Not
Fountain in Honor of Mothers
Interfaith Friendship Garden
Ness Family
Oregon Women in the Law
Our Foremothers Who Fought for the Rights, Freedom, and Dignity of Women
Portland's Black Women Civil Rights Pioneers
Special Honorings
Women's International League for Peace & Freedom
Women in Engineering and Science
Youngbar Family
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Every gain women have made in the past two hundred years has been in the face of experts insisting they couldn’t do it and didn’t really want to.
- Katha Pollitt, 2005
Barbara Fealy
Mother Joseph of the Sacred Heart, Sister of Providence
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