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People

Amazon is an eponym, derived from the legend, for any woman warrior or athlete, including:

  • Amazon, nom de guerre of a Roman gladiatrix at Halicarnassus
  • The Dahomey Amazons, an all-female regiment of the Kingdom of Dahomey
  • The Amazonian Guard, an all-female elite bodyguard unit to protect then Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi
  • Amazon feminism, a branch of feminism that emphasizes female physical prowess
  • The Los Angeles Amazons, a women's semi-professional American football team

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Famous quotes containing the word people:

    Even to this day it is easier than it ought to be for me to get a rise out of an American by telling him something about himself which is equally true about every human being on the face of the globe. He at once resents this as a disparagement and an assertion on my part that people in other parts of the globe are not like that, and are loftily superior to such weaknesses.
    George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

    Heavy, heavy-hearted people grow lighter and rise occasionally to their surface through precisely that which makes others heavier, through hatred and love.
    Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible—that is, that one is male and the other female.
    Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)