On International Womens Day to ask which women have inspired you and why..?

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Mine would be Ellen Mcarthur because I think her acheivements are awesome and she was so determined to do what she set out to she brought her first small boat with her pocket money, and to sail round the world alone is an incredible thing to do.

Meryl Streep because I love all her films, think she is an amazing actress, comes across as very funny and intelligent and I like how she doesn't flaunt her family in front of the media and is a private person.

My third is my Grandmother who was quite simply amazing :)

Marie Curie
Rosa Parks

Those are just two, of so many who inspire me personally.

Maude Gonne

Liz Taylor - bit weird but what I like about her is that she never apologized about who she was.

The women in Afghanistan. The ones who teach young girls, who join the police, who beg. I don't know why they move so profoundly but they do.

Im inspired by Joyce Grenfell because she makes me laugh everytime i watch her on YT. Her books about her visits to the troops make great reading.
Florence Nightingale for going out to the Crimea and all the work she did.
Josie Russell because of everything she has been through and she is now a beautiful young woman! I am sure there are others but am half asleep at the moment.

Yes - Florence Niightingale - big one

Oh yes and my 7 year old dd who is tough as old boots and is a brilliant striker in her football team. She is the only girl in her team and in her 'league' but she doesn't give a hoot and I admire that. She's scored a hattrick in her last two matches and is top scorer. I was shit at sports!

Shami chakhrabharti
Edith Cavell
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
Michelle Obama

My mum and my daughter who are both gentle and infinitely kind and patient and hate injustice.

My aunt and her more well known friend Gabrielle Palmer who have done so much to change attitudes to infant feeding and fight the companies who believe paying shareholders is more important than the lives of babies in the developing world.

She's not famous, but my boss. (She is a special ed teacher and case manager for many of the special needs students at our elementary school) She is kind and never outwardly frustrated, and she always remembers what's going on in everyone's lives and asks after it. And gives us chocolate. :) And she defends my decisions down the the ground and always, always has my back. (I am thought of as somewhat of a loose cannon at work...yes, I am a controversial 1:1 aide :o) She makes everyone feel like they are wonderful and doing a lovely job whilst cautiously steering them in the right direction.

I adore her. :)

I have just thought of another person! Rosa Monckton! A great campaigner for disabled rights!!

Damnbamboo, i was also ging to say Marie Curie- won The Nobel Prize twice (for chemistry and physics). She was the first woman to lecture at the Sorbonne.

Rosa Parks -symbol of the American Civil Rights struggle

Michelle Obama, has conducted herself with dignity and compassion. One has the impresion that she is Barack Obama's backbone.

I am not a royalist, but i admire The Queen and her sense of duty.