Inspirational Women list

[PipGoesPop]

Let's have a list of all the women out there who are an inspiration to others. Here's 3 to start us off.

Ada Lovelace
Marie Curie
Malala Yousafzai

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Mother Theresa
Anne Frank
Oprah Winfrey

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Hedy lamarr
Mother Teresa

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Rosa Parcs
Emmeline Pankhurst

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Mo Mowlam

Kelly Holmes

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Rosie Hackett
Delia Larkin
Hanna Sheehy Skeffington
Dr Kathleen Lynn

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Sophia Magdalena Scholl.

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Florence Nightingale
Marie Stopes
Millicent Fawcett

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Mary Ward
Edith Stein
Marie Curie
Rosalind Franklyn
Sophie Scholl
Valentina Vezzali

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Virginia Apgar
Elizabeth Blackwell
Mary Seacole
Rosalyn Yalow

[RiverTam]

Ok, possibly quite a bit lighter than others but 2 women I find inspiring are Michelle Obama and Carole Middleton. Both hardworking women, and as someone who tends to be lazy or struggle to get motivated, hard work is something I very much admire in others.

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Radclyffe Hall
Alice Walker
Virginia Woolfe

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Marie Stopes
Sophia Jex Blake
Sheila Sherlock

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Amelia Earhart
Billie Jean King
Diane Warren

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J K Rowling
Jo Cox
Hillary Clinton

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On a Welsh theme:

Betty Campbell
Elaine Morgan
Val Feld
Megan Lloyd-George
Laura Ashley


Still going strong:
Lady Tanni Grey-Thompson
Baroness Ilora Finlay
Dilys Price
Eluned Morgan
Dr Julie Williams

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Mrs faraday? Totally hidden but my father once told me she was the experimental half of Michael faraday

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Boudicca
Frida Kahlo
Josephine Baker

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Anne Diamond.
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3371837-To-wonder-why-Anne-Diamond-has-still-not-received-the-recognition-she-deserves-after-saving-the-lives-of-1000s-of-babies

[PipGoesPop]

Hope you're reading this Comic Relief and feeling ashamed of yourselves.

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Maya Angelou
Margaret Forster
Michelle Obama

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Hannah Arendt

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Violet Szarbo
Amy Johnston
Serena Williams
Venus Williams

[Judashascomeintosomemoney]

Yes! Anne Diamond! She’s my current ‘Oh gawd, Judas, do stop banging on about it’ subject until such time as she gets an honour.
And I’ll add Amy Johnson

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Kitty Wilkinson
www.theheroinecollective.com/kitty-wilkinson-saint-of-the-slums/
Rose Heilbron
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Heilbron
Harriet Tubman
www.history.com/topics/black-history/harriet-tubman
Rosalind Franklin
famouschemists.org/rosalind-franklin/

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Magdalen Berns
Queen Elizabeth both 1 and 2.

QE2 because she's been an astonishingly good queen. I know plenty of people hate the monarchy but I much prefer it to the presidents other nations have. If we had presidents then Thatcher would have been one for fucking ever. So I'm grateful to the Queen. Her sense of duty impresses me.

As for QE1, after previous monarchs had had people burnt alive over religion, QE1 said, pragmatically, that she would not seek to make windows into men's souls, i.e as long as people kept their faith to themselves it was their business. As a strong woman of her time she was massively impressive. She played her courtiers brilliantly, avoiding the royal marriage that would have cost her autonomy for decades. She kept us out of wars and oversaw a period of great writers, poets, exploration and art.