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16 Things They Didn’t Want You To Know About ‘Wonder Woman’

13. Wonder Woman Was Inspired by the Suffragettes

According to Jill Lepore’s book “The Secret History of Wonder Woman,” the creator’s inspiration for the female superhero was suffragette Margaret Sanger. William Moulton Marston was a psychologist with an interest in women’s rights and gender dynamics. He had an affair with one of his students, Olive Byrne, who was Sanger’s niece. Byrne gave Marston a copy of Sanger’s book Woman and the New Race which influenced his creation of the strong, independent femals character. We’re not sure how Margaret would feel about the curvy costume, however.

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