The Top 31 Most Influential Women in Our Lives
With input from the staff writers of 31 Magazine

1. Mom
2. Our sisters
3. Grandma Joyce (who joined Facebook at age 86!)
4. Great-grandmother Marcia Esther Porter Reid
5. Aunt Nancy
6. Grandma Willette
7. Mrs. Buchanan, 4th grade teacher
8. Mia Schilling, high school English teacher
9. Anne Crosson, high school French teacher
10. Anne Peters, high school Creative Writing teacher
11. Meg Whitman, former eBay CEO
12. Abigail Adams
13. Alice Paul, American suffragist leader
14. Rosa Parks
15. Florence Griffith-Joyner, Olympic runner
16. Queen Elizabeth of England
17. Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, active feminist, historian, and Pulitzer Prize-winner
18. Hilary Clinton
19. Michelle Obama
20. Margaret Mead
21. Oprah
22. Miss Piggy
23. Katharine Hepburn
24. Martha Graham
25. Deborah Tannen, linguist and author
26. Jane Austen
27. Toni Morrison
28. Joyce Carol Oates
29. Virginia Wolf
30. Louisa May Alcott
31. JK Rowling