1. By Alexsandra Lins

3.  Native Moema and Portuguese Diogo Álvares Corrêa  1st literate woman  on March 26, 1561: Padre Manoel da Nobrega.

5.  Rio de Janeiro, 1682  Lisboa, November 12th, 1700.  Afonso Teixeira Arraes de Melo,1714.

7. 1822, José Cordeiro de Medeiros, “Soldier Medeiros". 1823, battle of Itapuã. 1996, Patroness of Supplementary group of Officers of the Brazilian Army, one of the few Army divisions that accept female members.

9.  First songwriter of Brazilian popular music.  Author of two thousand compositions.  Abolitionist.

10.  Sao Paulo on August 2, 1894, daughter of the English nurse Amy Fowler and scientist and pioneer of tropical medicine Adolfo Lutz.  One of the pioneers of the struggle for women's suffrage and equal rights between men and women in the country

12.  Fortaleza, 1910.  The first woman to join the Brazilian Academy of Letters in 1977.  Won many awards of the best write of the year in Brasil and Portugal.

13.  First black woman to become a judge and federal judge in Brazil.  In 1993, the first sentence against racism.  Ambassador of Peace in Vienna – Austria.

14.  “I do not take into account if I am the first or the last black woman to be a judge in Brazil. For me, what matters is having the courage to say what needs to be said in time”. Luislinda Valois