What women do you admire?

Susan · Post by **Susan** » Sun Oct 25, 2009 12:50 pm

This doesn't seem to have been covered before so I thought I'd ask the question.

Here is a short list of my admirable women - google those you don't know.

Emmeline Pankhurst
Dorothy Parker
Vera Brittain
Mary Seacole

I wonder why we don't have people of their calibre anymore

Christina Huffman · Post by **Christina Huffman** » Mon Oct 26, 2009 12:37 am

This might be a stupid question, but admire for what?

Susan · Post by **Susan** » Mon Oct 26, 2009 2:37 am

Anything but looks which we all know are transient. You only have to look at what my choices did with their lives to understand. Their achievements live after they died.

Christina Huffman · Post by **Christina Huffman** » Tue Oct 27, 2009 1:21 am

Okay:

Hillary Clinton
Madeline Albright
Amelia Earhart
Rosalind Franklin
Katharine Graham (currently reading her autobiography)
Susan Falludi
Jessica Valenti
Christine Jorgenson
Julia Serano

And two that have always inspired me and I have to include just because their music has that in-your-face girl power that I love:

Shirley Manson
P!nk

I don't think we lack people of caliber today - I'm very hopeful for the future! Three words: Yes we can!

Absaroka · Post by **Absaroka** » Tue Oct 27, 2009 8:19 am

Actually there have been posts like this a number of times. You'll have to dig back a couple of years however, so might as well start a new one.
By categories:

Hillary Clinton
Golda Meir
Benazir Bhutto

Linda Greenlaw
Marie Currie

Koko Taylor
Toshiko Akiyoshi
Marian McPartland

My wife
my daughters
my sister
my best female friend
a couple of past girlfriends

Zari

April Rose · Post by **April Rose** » Tue Oct 27, 2009 9:12 pm

Zari; We have a tape that we got years ago of the Toshiko Akiyoshi- Lew Tabackin big band. We still play it from time to time. I know she's on to other things now, but that remains a favorite.

for the rest of my list;

Hillary
Madeline Albright
Betty Friedan
Benazir Bhutto
Linda Greenlaw
Shirley Muldowney
Sally Ride
Georgia O'Keefe
Marie Cassat

Absaroka · Post by **Absaroka** » Wed Oct 28, 2009 7:44 am

Nice to see someone else knows who Linda Greenlaw is.

Zari

April Rose · Post by **April Rose** » Wed Oct 28, 2009 8:53 pm

I read her book, "The Hungry Ocean" this past year. Her picture on the cover is way cuter than the actress who played her in the movie.

Erin L · Post by **Erin L** » Thu Oct 29, 2009 10:51 pm

Two categories...

Before my time
Mercy Otis Warren
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Elizabeth Farrell
George Eliot
Dorothy Day
Eleanor Roosevelt
Sojourner Truth
Margaret Fell
Susan B. Anthony

In my time
Mother Theresa
Benazir Bhutto
Margaret Thatcher
Taylor Caldwell
Dorothy Rabinowitz
Julie Brown (triathlete)
Sandra Day O'Connor
Katherine Hepburn
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Ronnie Gilbert
Jane Fonda

Erin L · Post by **Erin L** » Thu Oct 29, 2009 11:01 pm

I have to explain my selection of Julie Brown, a name few are likely to recognize. In the early 1980s, the sport of triathlon was just becoming known, and ABC showed the Hawaii Ironman Triathlon on Wide World of Sports. For the uninitiated, the Ironman is a single event that includes a 2 mile ocean swim, a 115 mile (or thereabouts) bicycle race, and THEN a full marathon (26.2 miles).

Julie was well ahead of the rest of the women, cruising along in the marathon, when she began to struggle. She pushed herself onward until, in the last mile, she collapsed in the road. Her support team rushed out to her but she waved them away, fearful that accepting any assistance would result in her being disqualified. She got up and began to slowly jog, which slowed to walk and then to a rather tortuous stagger before falling again. Again, she waved away help.

This went on as the second-tier men racers passed her on their way into the finish line. Her lead over over the second-place woman (whose name I don't recall) was rapidly dwindling when she fell again, this time a few hundred yards from the finish line. This time, she couldn't get up, and she started crawling toward the finish line. She kept crawling, losing control of her bowels, when, about 50 yards from the finish, the woman who had been in second place finally passed her to win the women's race. Julie kept crawling, and the medical team got her to an ambulance as soon as she crossed the finish line, the second place finisher.

It was the single most courageous performance I ever saw in any athletic event.

Miss Emma · Post by **Miss Emma** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 8:51 am

Perhaps it is because I am shallow or young, but I would have to say Keira Knightley, for no good reason other than I think she's a brilliant actress and absolutely gorgeous to boot.

MsJoann · Post by **MsJoann** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 9:46 am

Sarah Palin......(for the time being)

Absaroka · Post by **Absaroka** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 12:57 pm

I'd forgotten the name but I remember reading about Julie Brown crawling across the finish line. I was always impressed that she didn't give up.

Zari