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Inspirational Women list

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PipGoesPop · 15/11/2018 15:22

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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PipGoesPop · 15/11/2018 20:24

Cllr Sarah Field

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silentcrow · 15/11/2018 19:58

Jocelyn Bell Burnell
Chien-Shung Wu
Dorothy Hodgkin
Liese Meitner
Mary-Claire King
Fabiola Gianotti
(All sciences, all overlooked by Nobel)

Chimanda Ngozi Adichie
Hibo Wardere
Alice Walker
bell hooks
Zaha Hadid

Spartacunt · 15/11/2018 19:44

Emma Thompson
Tessa Jowell

WomanOfTime · 15/11/2018 19:09

Sophia Duleep Singh
Emily Davison
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
Valentina Tereshkova
Svetlana Savitskaya
Julian of Norwich
Hildegard of Bingen
Empress Matilda
Enheduanna

AdaColeman · 15/11/2018 18:57

Angela Hartnett
Elizabeth Haigh
Catherine Healy
Rachel Humphry

All of them Michelin starred chefs.

noeffingidea · 15/11/2018 18:47

Jane Tomlinson
Jean Hatchett

noeffingidea · 15/11/2018 18:46

Martina Navratilova.
Jo Brand
Jane Austen

NibblyPig · 15/11/2018 18:39

I bought this recently, to try to counter the horror. Portraits of 100 inspirational women, with short bio of each

www.npg.org.uk/business/publications/100-pioneering-women

HamiltonCork · 15/11/2018 18:36

J K Rowling
Barbara Hepworth

AdaColeman · 15/11/2018 18:30

Aphra Behn

AdaColeman · 15/11/2018 18:28

Hedy Lamarr

AdaColeman · 15/11/2018 18:26

Mary Beard

cheminotte · 15/11/2018 18:23

Eleanor Marx
Harriet Harman
Karen Brady

cockBlocker · 15/11/2018 18:20

Arts list:

Delia Derbyshire
Diane Arbus
Marina Abramovic
Kate Bush
Nina Simone
Carole King
Meryl Streep
Cindy Sherman
Louise Bourgeois
Leonora Carrington
Tilda Swinton
Guerilla Girls
Frida Kahlo
Barbara Kruger
Nico

Prawnofthepatriarchy · 15/11/2018 18:02

YY to Boudicca. Did you know one of the Roman leaders wrote home saying how freaked out their troops were by the long haired young spear maidens who rode into battle against them on little shaggy ponies? The sexes were equal here then.

Prawnofthepatriarchy · 15/11/2018 17:58

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.

Judashascomeintosomemoney · 15/11/2018 17:38

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

Terfnserf · 15/11/2018 17:36

Violet Szarbo
Amy Johnston
Serena Williams
Venus Williams

IdaBWells · 15/11/2018 17:31

Hannah Arendt

cheesefield · 15/11/2018 17:23

Maya Angelou
Margaret Forster
Michelle Obama

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PipGoesPop · 15/11/2018 17:13

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

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TheHarpySings · 15/11/2018 16:29

Boudicca
Frida Kahlo
Josephine Baker

MIdgebabe · 15/11/2018 16:24

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

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