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Original poster

to start a list about all the fucking brilliant mothers there are in the world?

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WilfSell · 08/02/2009 22:10

Just to give the supplement journos some new angles instead of their tired old cliches?

Hmm, shall we begin?

Indira Gandhi.

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mrsmaidamess · 08/02/2009 22:22

How do we know these brilliant women didn't employ several staff to keep the kids amused whilst their mothers were out being brilliant?

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WilfSell · 08/02/2009 22:22

Really herbie? Respect to her.

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WilfSell · 08/02/2009 22:23

Yeah but so what mrsmaidamess?

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WilfSell · 08/02/2009 22:25
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herbietea · 08/02/2009 22:25

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fryalot · 08/02/2009 22:26

sorry, wilf. I agree with you on most things, but I cannot accept that that woman was responsibly for anything good in the world.

at all.

mrsmaidamess · 08/02/2009 22:27

Now that's more like it.

mrsmaidamess · 08/02/2009 22:27

Last post was to herbie

fryalot · 08/02/2009 22:27

Alison Lapper

Habbibu · 08/02/2009 22:29

Well, on those grounds, Hillary Clinton. And Michelle Obama is pretty impressive in her own right.

tiredsville · 08/02/2009 22:29

Any single parent who has worked their arse off while still managing to raise a happy, well adjusted content being.

Habbibu · 08/02/2009 22:29

Oh, good one, squonk.

Quattrocento · 08/02/2009 22:29

Erm, Nicola Horlick?

I get the idea that the best mothers are (by nature or definition) those who haven't achieved great things out of the home. But the point of the thread was a riposte against nutty journalists maintaining that women become dummies when they have children. Wilf wants to celebrate women who've achieved lots outside the home whilst still being mothers. And I agree.

lenny101 · 08/02/2009 22:29

Yep, with you there Squonk, Alison Lapper and seahorses.

MinkyBorage · 08/02/2009 22:29

I don't get this, do you mean women whom have acheived a lot in spite of being mothers, or women who are good at being mothers. Please clarify, and please explain the Indira Ghandi thing too.

tiredsville · 08/02/2009 22:30

Yes Riven too, I have read her posts and she sounds lovely.

lenny101 · 08/02/2009 22:31

Alison Lapper, artist mother. Your point Quattrocento?

fryalot · 08/02/2009 22:32

Anita Roddick

Habbibu · 08/02/2009 22:32

Aung San Suu Kyi - though she hasn't seen her children for years, which is just awful.

fryalot · 08/02/2009 22:32

Benizir Bhutto

Quattrocento · 08/02/2009 22:33

Lenny101 - I don't understand your question. Do elaborate.

tiredsville · 08/02/2009 22:33

you beat me to it Squonk, Anita Roddick I agree.

lenny101 · 08/02/2009 22:35

No it's ok. Just re-read. Am actually hacked off at earlier post. Huge assumption that diabled women are not parents unless you really spell it out and say so!! Enjoy your evening. x

fryalot · 08/02/2009 22:35

I suppose Cherie Blair?

LoveMyLapTop · 08/02/2009 22:35

Kerry Katona
Jordan
Melinda Messenger
Posh