Could Emma Goldman qualify as a philosopher -if so - "If I can t dance I am not coming to your revolution! is my kind of philosophy!

Mine, is Marcus Arileous...even if he was a man! He could have done anything he wanted, but he struggled to be a just person and he worked at it every day!

George Carlin

Irving Yalom - a living existential psychotherapist who wrote some really good books, like Staring at the Sun- Overcoming the Terror of Death, Love's Executioner and When Nietzsche Wept.

Betrand Russell.

Albert Camus

Hermann Hesse - he wasn't acutally a philosopher, but his novels dealt a lot with accepting the shadow material inside us and he wrote beautiful lyrical prose. From Wikipedia: "His best-known works include Demian, Steppenwolf, Siddhartha, and The Glass Bead Game, each of which explores an individual's search for authenticity, self-knowledge and spirituality."

Kahlil Gibran & Rumi

Frances Bacon, the primacy of existence,

Shakyamuni Buddha, f.k.a. Siddhartha Gautama.

Albert Camus. When we read "The Stranger" in high school I was the only one in the class who got it.

Bertrand Russell

Any of the Existenialists, Nihilists, Absurdists.