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Inspirational women, kittens and puppies thread

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PricklyBall · 18/01/2018 19:55

Because we need something that will lift us up, rather than send our blood pressure soaring.

Thread rules:

Women who've done bloody amazing things.

Soothing pics (fluffy animals, beautiful landscapes, flowers, wonderful craft creations, fabulous cakes... the list is open ended).

Inspirational women, kittens and puppies thread

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latara23 · 19/01/2018 19:27

This 17 year old was a heroine of the French Resistance.

WeldMeDaphne · 19/01/2018 13:36

Someone beat me to hedy Lamarr, so here’s Katharine Hepburn, my favourite ever movie star who demonstrates women can be strong (in all senses), and independent and can look awesome in a suit.

MiaowTheCat · 19/01/2018 13:17

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QuentinSummers · 19/01/2018 13:02

I have a nurturing ds too bert. He loves playing with younger children and babies. He looks after all his friends and his family. He is 14 and it shows no sign of abating. He makes my heart melt.

BertrandRussell · 19/01/2018 12:42

Germaine. Always Germaine.

Also my ds modeling being a gentle nurturing man I hope he will be. And my dog

Amoregentlemanlikemanner · 19/01/2018 12:32

Yeah for Hairy's mum and her legacy on mumsnet :)

AnnaMagdalenaGluck · 19/01/2018 12:28

Lana I read The Hard Way Up when I was about 14 after watching 'Shoulder to Shoulder'. It was one of the very few books about suffragettes in our local library.

I must read it again because the only thing I can clearly remember is the account of her breakdown.

Backingvocals · 19/01/2018 12:11

The Sylvia Plath poem brought a tear to my eye as did the Mary Cassatt picture. The domestic moments that she represents have been profound in my life. There's a quiet heroism in her care. How dare that be viewed as lesser?

I love what your mum said Hairy and if I could paint I'd go and paint a picture of things that have mattered to me and my children right now.

I have ordered the autobiography of Hannah Mitchell

HairyBallTheorem · 19/01/2018 11:44

Another artist. This one's for my mum (who was an artist). Mary Cassatt was one of her favourite painters, and one who specialised in painting images of motherhood.

(As an aside, I remember my mother once painting a still life with some of my toys in it, and one of my dad's male colleagues trying to patronise her by saying something along the lines of "oh, how cute and feminine and slightly infantile." She gave him the most wonderful dressing down, saying that raising children had been a major part of her life experience and if she wanted to put that life experience into her art that was a perfectly valid source of artistic inspiration.)

LanaKanesLeftNippleTassle · 19/01/2018 11:17

And my cute and fluffy.....

LanaKanesLeftNippleTassle · 19/01/2018 11:15

Great thread!

My absolute hero.....
One of the great unsung women of all time imo.
Hannah Mitchell

Working class feminist, socialist and organiser of many many good things.
Please read her autobiography if you get the chance.

HairyBallTheorem · 19/01/2018 10:54

While we're on the subject of great women who made it possible for us to waste time on the internet , I give you... Hedy Lamarr, Hollywood star and co-inventor of spread spectrum and frequency hopping technology, which underpins the wifi we all use today.

AllMyBestFriendsAreMetalheads · 19/01/2018 10:49

And Ada's mother, Anne, for insisting that Ada was taught maths and science.

AllMyBestFriendsAreMetalheads · 19/01/2018 10:48

Ada Lovelace, who essentially had the vision that means we are all here today, on MN, using computers!

ISaySteadyOn · 19/01/2018 10:45

hackaday.com/2018/01/16/miss-beatrice-shilling-saves-the-spitfire/

I can't do links on my phone but Tilly Shilling who fixed a flaw in spitfires and raced motorcycles.

BartholinsSister · 19/01/2018 10:20

Irena Sendler, beyond brave.

TallulahWaitingInTheRain · 19/01/2018 09:43

Striking match 'girls'

Courage and solidarity

cjdamoo · 19/01/2018 09:22

Inspirational and straight talking Magdalen Berns

baramewe · 19/01/2018 09:12

Badger your dog is so cute ❤️

baramewe · 19/01/2018 09:12

Light of my life, Frida Kahlo, who suffered such pain both physical and mental throughout her life but forged such a path through her art. And my darling doggo who I get to take to work with me and he brightens everyone's day.

Ekphrasis · 19/01/2018 09:04

(I think bugs are cute - healthy ones that is)

Ekphrasis · 19/01/2018 09:03

Cornelia Hesse Honneger

She couldn't get her work published as a scientist and was rather vilified by the scientific community. So she turned to art to get her message across. I believe being a woman was part of the vilification.

www.treehugger.com/energy-disasters/paintings-mutated-insects-nuclear-power-cornelia-hesse-honegger.html

www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/chernobyls-bugs-art-and-science-life-after-nuclear-fallout-180951231/

silkpyjamasallday · 19/01/2018 08:50

Ooh this is a good thread, I got these for DD for Christmas - inspirational women flash cards! ashmae.com/products/we-brave-women-cards

badbadhusky · 18/01/2018 23:43

And a rose at Blenheim for balance.

badbadhusky · 18/01/2018 23:37

Jocelyn Bell Burnell and Rosalind Franklin from me. Both inspirational women scientists whose accomplishments were claimed or subsumed within those of their male colleagues.

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