Role models for girls - who would you choose?

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Are there any women that you think make good role models for your daughters (other than yourself!)
and for what reasons?

Tanni Grey Thompson (paralympic athlete).. for her determination.

Oh, I forgot, I've always admired Barbara Jordan, the first blackwoman to hold a seat in Congress - wwwaaayyy back.

naomi from milkshake

I've always really admired Annie Lennox for talent, looks and taking her own line on celebrity, modern life etc - she has taken unpublicised sabbaticals to do personal volunteering work as well as working as a Unicef ambassador
Dorothy Hodgkin, Rosalind Franklin, Marie Curie
Elizabeth I - a very powerful woman with more integrity than some
Mary Seacole, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson and Florence Nightingale
Elizabeth Fry
Milicent Fawcett, Marie Stopes and Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst
Jennie Lee, for making the OU happen

And these days...apart from Annie Lennox?

Jenny Tonge, Helena Kennedy, Sarah Teather, Deborah Warner, Katie Mitchell, J K Rowling, Emma Thompson, Nica Burns, Meera Syal, Kate Adie, Michaela Strachan, Lisa Potts...

might I add Thora Hurd?
and Camilla Batmanghelidjh, who founded Kids Company

Tina Turner. She left an abusive relationship and lived as a lone parent (on benefits for a while), all the while struggling to resurrect her singing career. It worked!

Now an expatriate to Germany for many years, she's still belting out the tunes!

forgot Jocelyn Bell Burnell (not credited with discovery of pulsars, and passed over by bigoted mysogynistic Nobel Committee)

I have a lot of time for Martha Kearney and Mary Robinson too

Kylie
Madonna

both nothing worth aspiring to IMO

I dont have any female role models apart from some of my lovely RL friends. Famous people are never quite what they seem IMO and I would feel uncomfortable recommending anyone.

I really do hope that I will be a role model to my dds though

I'm really not sure about Camilla Batmanghelidjh, bundle. I know people who've worked with her and it sounds like her press is severely misleading, tbh.

in what way, scummy?

Told my dds about the woman incharge of flying the space shuttle.

Allegedly...
*Gun pulled on staff member by teenage service user - she refused to involve the police
*Doesn't have the qualifications she claims to have
*Gives individual children/teenagers £thousands as gifts

She always sounds like one of those amazingly charismatic people with no boundaries to me and I think that can be quite dangerous when you're working with very vulnerable people. Just IMO and based on hearsay. But hearsay from people I respect.

lisa potts
now she was brave adn selfless

Scummy, agree re: charisma and lack of boundaries - she's a little naive (quite shocking considering the group she works with) but part of me can "forgive" her because of the desolate state of the young people she works with and the lack of resources for agencies etc.

Can't forgive the gun thing, though, that's senseless, and as I totally respect what you say it will colour what I think of her

Speaking of qualifications..did anyone see the fabulous expose on Gillian McKeith the other week?

Ohh no bundle re McKeith, where? Can you post a link?

no!!!! tell

There was good one in OFM a few weeks back. V amusing. Emaciated old hag.

she has scoliotis (sp?)

yes, here's the Observer one

even so....

and she is only 42!! I nearly fell over when my mum told me that

I thought she was 50 odd.

shes a vegan
nuff said

weirdies
she needs a bit if animal fat in her arteries

that was it snaf, i love OFM

jk Rowling as dd has lierary tendencies
dian fossey as dd wants to work with animals
zadie smith also for being s geat writer so young

also joining the i hate natasha kerplunk gang. she is apauling. just love it when she looks like Sh1* first thing in the morning. hahaha