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C'mon guys (and gals), women you admired?

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Whether from history or currently still alive, I am sure all the guys here have a list of women they admired.

Not for their looks or "star" power, but for what they endured and accomplished.

My list is a bit eclectic, but just the same, here it is:

Malala Yousafzai
Helen Keller
Eleanor Roosevelt
Joan of Arc
Florence Nightingale
Marie Curie
Rosa Parks
Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Now I realize there are other women, those who deserve their names to be better known, so maybe some of you can find those names for me.

Who would be on YOUR list?
 
Marie Curie
Rosa Parks
Nellie Bly
Anne Frank
Mary Wollstonecraft
And her daughter, Mary Shelley
Zora Neale Hurston
Katherine Graham
Rachel Carson
Greta Thunberg
Margaret Atwood
Ida B. Wells
Hana Mandlíková (Best legs I've ever seen in my whole entire life. And a tennis champ.)
Dolley Madison


 
Janet Yellen
Queen Elizabeth II
Angela Merkel
Jane Pauley
Gina Raimondo
Emily Carr
Claudia Pardo
Mahalia Jackson
Queen Victoria*
Christiane Amanpour
Helen Caldicott
Anne Murray
Marie Curie

*Considered the "mother of Confederation" she supported greater independence for Canada and is partly responsible for the system of government we operate under today.
 
Greta Thunberg (Humanist / Human Rights Activist)


Naomi Klein (Economist)


Amy Goodman (Journalist)
Myriam Francois (Journalist)
Grace Blakeley (Economist)


Francesca Albanese (Human Rights Scholar)
Olayemi Olurin (Lawyer / Political Commentator)
Emma Vigeland (Humanist / Political Commentator)
Krystal Ball (Political Commentator)
 
Helen Keller
Madame Curie
Margarite Thatcher
Golda Meir
Anne Frank
Queen Elizabeth
Florence Nightingale
Condoleezza Rice
Rosa Parks
Harriet Tubman
Mother Theresa
 
Queen Elizabeth I
Marie Curie
J K Rowling

Ayaan Hirsi Aly
George Eliot
Golda Meir
Emmiline Pankhurst
Kemi Badenoch
Noor Inayat Khan
Margaret Thatcher
 
MAGAnificent said:
Though I do not see Greta as a woman, just a stupid kid.
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Meh...that's a bit harsh, but maybe you haven't had your coffee yet.

Greta is not someone that would make my list though so we agree on that.

I prefer someone that can deliver their message with a bit more courtesy.
 
Allan said:
Meh...that's a bit harsh, but maybe you haven't had your coffee yet.
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I haven't.
Allan said:
Greta is not someone that would make my list though so we agree on that.

I prefer someone that can deliver their message with a bit more courtesy.
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At least delivered in a more adult manner.
 
Allan said:
Meh...that's a bit harsh, but maybe you haven't had your coffee yet.

Greta is not someone that would make my list though so we agree on that.

I prefer someone that can deliver their message with a bit more courtesy.
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She's neurodivergent. We don't always play by neurotypical rules.
 
Good thread,
I agree quite a few but I would have in mine: (I'll elaborate on the ones ignored by most history books)

Queen Nzinga - fought and defeated Portuguese colonialists and won independence for her people, forcing the Portuguese into a peace treaty in 1656
Funmilayo Aníkúlápó-Kuti - mother of Fela Kuti, campaigned for women's education in Nigeria and was eventually murdered by the Nigerian military. She brought up two firebrand sons (Fela and Beko) who repeatedly shamed the corrupt politicians of Nigeria.
Malala Yousafzai
Emmiline Pankhurst
Greta Thurnburg
Rosa Parks
Nandi - mother of Shaka Zulu, she was a famous warrior queen in her own right.
Wangari Maathai - democracy activist, author and founder of the Green Belt Africa movement
Harriet Tubman
Florence Nightingale
Hannah Senesh - parachuted into nazi occupied territory to organise the escape of Jews from persecution but also as an SAS trained operative for the Allies.
 
Here's a couple of favorites:

Sojourner Truth - 1851

"Then that little man in black there, he says women can't have as much rights as men, 'cause Christ wasn't a woman! Where did your Christ come from? Where did your Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him."

Victoria Woodhull - 1871

“Yes, I am a Free Lover. I have an inalienable, constitutional and natural right to love whom I may, to love as long or as short a period as I can; to change that love every day if I please, and with that right neither you nor any law you can frame have any right to interfere. And I have the further right to demand a free and unrestricted exercise of that right, and it is your duty not only to accord it, but, as a community, to see that I am protected in it. I trust that I am fully understood, for I mean just that, and nothing less!”
Margaret Sanger - 1920
“No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.”
 
rchs
Allan said:
Why Queen Elizabeth I?



Yuck.
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Liz One, the greatest English monarch who saved England from Spanish - and Catholci - rule. Liz Two, a spoilt woman of limited intelligence w the most overpraised monarch in our history who did nothing whatsoever for us other than to live for a long time.
 
OlNate said:
She's neurodivergent. We don't always play by neurotypical rules.
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Actually, she is merely attempting to hold onto her 15 minutes of fame. The war in Gaza is a distraction from the climate change gig, so she hops on a boat to Gaza with regular broadcasts along the way. Then after she and the boat crew were arrested by the IDF and ultimately deported, rumors are she is headed to Los Angeles to join the anti-ICE protest/riots. She must be wearing out her passport.
 

"Actually".... lol

Simmer down, the autistic girl isn't going to hurt you.
 
WillyPete said:
I've long thought Condoleezza Rice would make for an excellent POTUS.
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As a presidential candidate, I would have considered voting for her.
WillyPete said:
Certainly, she'd know better than to kowtow to Russia.
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The only politician that has done any kowtowing to Russia is Hillary Clinton (hildabeast). She signed off on selling them a shitload of uranium interests.
 
OlNate said:
"Actually".... lol

Simmer down, the autistic girl isn't going to hurt you.
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If Thunberg contributes to the destruction of economies to 'combat climate change'' she is hurting everyone.
 
Sweden said:
rchs

Liz One, the greatest English monarch who saved England from Spanish - and Catholci - rule.
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Ok.

Sweden said:
Liz Two, a spoilt woman of limited intelligence w the most overpraised monarch in our history who did nothing whatsoever for us other than to live for a long time.
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What was she supposed to do for you exactly?
 
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