She was one of the important advocates in leading the way for women's rights to be acknowledged and instituted in the American government.

She also advocates for female and male equality within the realm of education.

She has been a vegetarian since season 7, converted to Buddhism in season 13 and advocates for a variety of political causes, including the Tibetan independence movement.

She advocates against the prevalent " patriarchal logic of exclusion ," claiming that a woman-focused system would change the current system in an extremely positive manner.

She criticizes a sermon by a white preacher, who advocates the segregation of blacks into separate schools, and says their striving for social equality would lead blacks to become avaricious.

She created and serves as the chair of The Carter Center Mental Health Task Force, an advisory board of experts, consumers, and advocates promoting positive change in the mental health field.

She claimed that women could have it all, " love, sex, and money ", a view that even preceding feminists such as Betty Friedan and Germaine Greer did not support at all and has been met with notable opposition by advocates of grass-roots devotion of women to family and marriage.

She is one of the primary advocates of the Delta Regional Authority, which is designed to spur development in the lower Mississippi Delta region.

She is the chair of the Washington-based Institute for Inclusive Security ( including the Women Waging Peace Network ) which advocates integrating women into peace processes.

McCarthy has been described as “ the doyenne of anti-gun advocates in the House ” and “ the fiercest gun-control advocate in Congress .” She has made attempts to broaden her policy portfolio, but hasn't been able to shed the label of being a one-issue congresswoman.

She also advocates cutting funding to Lebanese Armed Forces and the West Bank and Gaza.

She has also written that " once the principle same-sex marriage is in the law, the next step will be to use the law to stigmatize, marginalize, and repress those who disagree with the government ’ s new views on marriage and sexual orientation ", and as an example she has cited efforts by LGBT advocates to revoke the tax-exempt status of churches who politically oppose same-sex marriage.

She advocates France's food independence with regard to multinationals and " a realignment of the farm aid politics to the third countries in order to favour their food sovereignty in particular by the reintroduction of localized food crops ".

She advocates the implementation of the " autarky of big spaces " and an " economy in concentric circles ".

She advocates an immediate reduction of 20 % of the domestic tax on oil products ( TIPP ), a surchage of fantastic profits of the largest gas and oil companies and a struggle against international speculation on basic products such as food and energy.

She advocates to " start the energy diversification of France, in particular with an ambitious programme of research into hydrogen ".

She advocates to implement a flexible corporate tax according to the use of profits: heavier when the profits benefit the shareholders and lighter when the profits turn towards profit sharing, salaries, employment and productive investment, enabling a relocation of activities.

She consequently advocates the abolition of IMF.

She advocates to implement " the separation of the mosque and the state " and opposes the training of Imams by the French republic.

She advocates forging a privileged partnership with Russia.

She advocates to " have a dialogue with Africa in line with our common history and our mutual interests " and " implement a real partnership which enables a harmonious development of the African continent ".

She argued that if the " rape or incest " exception were all advocates cared about, they would not support its over-the-counter status.

She advocates environmental responsibility, openness in politics, and global justice.

She advocates non-violence.

She took postgraduate work at the University of Grenoble in France and then returned to London to work on market research with an advertising firm.

She had been " Miss Lyon 1929 " and " Miss France 1930 ".

She spent two years in France, where she worked for Anne Willan, the founder of Ecole de Cuisine La Varenne.

She was the subject of Simone de Beauvoir's 1959 essay, The Lolita Syndrome, which described Bardot as a " locomotive of women's history " and built upon existentialist themes to declare her the first and most liberated woman of post-war France.

She was a near contemporary of better-known American artist Mary Cassatt and also received her training in Philadelphia and France.

She also worked to bring the papacy of Gregory XI back to Rome from its displacement in France, and to establish peace among the Italian city-states.

She gained entrance to Marat's house on the pretense of presenting him a list of people who should be executed as enemies of France.

She only half-heartedly supported a number of ineffective, poorly resourced military campaigns in the Netherlands, France and Ireland.

She was a better ally than the chief alternative, Mary, Queen of Scots, who had grown up in France and was betrothed to the Dauphin of France.

" She is only a woman, only mistress of half an island ," marvelled Pope Sixtus V, " and yet she makes herself feared by Spain, by France, by the Empire, by all ".

She had married the Dauphin Francis in 1558, and become Queen of France on the death of his father the following year.

She was born a peasant girl in what is now eastern France.

She is – along with St. Denis, St. Martin of Tours, St. Louis IX, and St. Theresa of Lisieux – one of the patron saints of France.

She lived much of her adult life in France, where she first befriended Edgar Degas and later exhibited among the Impressionists.

She was further dismayed when James refused to help when the Catholic King of France, Louis XIV, invaded Orange and persecuted Huguenot refugees there.

She later studied in France, where she met her husband, the historian Charles Le Guin.

She flew to the outskirts of Limoges, France on 7 June 1944 ( immediately following D-Day ) from RAF Tempsford.

She also stayed at the farm while she was recuperating from her ankle injury and between her two missions to France.

She was born at the Tower of London and was the youngest daughter of Edward II of England and Isabella of France.

She spent a semester studying in France as part of her major, a move that mirrored her role as Reed in the television series Sisters.

Regardless of the reasoning behind its introduction, Elizabeth transformed “ her court into the country ’ s leading musical center .” She would spare no expense in its regard, importing leading musical talents from Germany, France, and Italy.

She decided to leave France, and soon ended up in Belgium, where she became the mistress of Henri, Prince de Ligne, and gave birth to their son, Maurice, in 1864.

She later married Greek-born actor Aristides Damala ( known in France by the stage name Jacques Damala ) in London in 1882, but the marriage, which legally endured until Damala's death in 1889 at age 34, quickly collapsed, largely due to Damala's dependence on morphine.

She carried out a successful tour of America in 1915, and on returning to France she played in her own productions almost continuously until her death.