Helen Keller. And put braille bumps on the bill.
I really don’t care who’s picture is on any of the bills. I am more concerned with the numbers in the corners. Years ago we used to refer to bills by their picture, but that has been at least 40 years ago.
I would put the very female Statue of Liberty. No one’s agenda. No political problems.
Lol. Although she is French, she probably was granted US citizenship by now, so that might work. 
I could only think of the one who cannot be put on $20 bill, because she is not an American - Margaret Thatcher. So, forget my point, it is futile…
Ok. Will do.
I am sorry Grace Hopper wasn’t on the list.
I wouldn’t list Sojourner Truth because it appears her famous words were actually written by another (white) woman and put in her mouth. I like the idea but that’s a reservation. (See wikipedia for details.)
I still think Susan B. Anthony because suffrage is the essential right of citizenship. That goes with the idea that a non-president be related to something fundamental about the nation, as with Hamilton being Treasury Secretary.
Some of the past choices have been connected with death and war. JFK because he was killed. FDR because he died and WWII ended. Grant because of the Civil War.
Lergnom.
I read more on STruth but I am only seeing where others tried to capture her speeches by writing them down later. I don’t see where others wrote speeches for her to later parrot.
What am I missing? I’m not seeing that.
I just want to post a reminder about the rules of this thread.
I second Lady Liberty. If not her, then how about The Go-Go’s?
louisa may alcott
^ So funny. For some reason, I totally thought Alcott was British.
This is a good thread. If nothing else, it has gotten me thinking about the accomplishments of remarkable women.
And every time I remember that women did not get the right to vote nationwide in this country until 1920, I get chills. My grandmother was born in 1920; she is still alive. When you think how modern the world was by then, it is just astonishing. James Joyce had already published the Dubliners, Marcel Duchamp had already exhibited his urinal Fountain, Picasso was deep into cubism, Einstein had already published his general theory of relativity, Virginia Woolf would publish Mrs. Dalloway in just a few years. Woodrow Wilson had already had had his stroke and Edith Wilson was already running the country. Yet women in many states in the U.S. still did not have the right to vote? So strange to ponder!
So I’d have to go with someone from the women’s suffrage movement. Susan B. Anthony or Elizabeth Cady Stanton, I guess (although as I write this I realize I know shamefully little about them).
Or, maybe a woman at the forefront of modern thought in the 1910s to remind us how far the world had come BEFORE we even had the right to vote.
I just heard a lecture about Henrietta Swan Leavitt. I had never heard of her until just the other day, but it turns out she discovered something called the period-luminosity relationship that apparently led to major strides in observational astronomy, laying the ground work for Hubbell and others to discover much that was previously unknown about the dimensions of the universe. But I guess it would be a shame to pick someone most people have never heard of.
Oh, and I forgot to mention, Henrietta Swan Leavitt was deaf, which somehow makes her accomplishments all the more remarkable.
Maria Mitchell was pretty impressive too.
Sara Blakely, Spanx inventor