Role models for girls - who would you choose?

[unicorn]

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, definitely monkeytrousers! a cautionary tale and a sad one... but now well in the past.

Enid - except if you want the same nose, eh?

This is another great make-you-ponder thread, unicorn. Is it on the home page yet? Dang well should be.

Need to have more think; but, off immediate top of head, women who have done/said things that have made me cheer & that I would like dd (in very due course) to pick up on:

• Betty Friedan (Feminine Mystique, my teenage eye-opener)
• Libby Purves
• Germaine Greer (love her too because sometimes she talks a bit of rot - human)
• Kate Adie (esp. memorable speech I heard at a Downs charity she supports)
• our very own blu.

Erin Pizzey

meera syal?

Abi Titmuss?

back to tits again?

one of my friends is a teacher and says that geniunely Abi Timuss and Rebecca Loos are role models for lots of girls. How awful is that?

my dd's current female role model is lisa simpson.

issymum, aung sung suu kyi (sp?)

Issymum - Mulan?

oh bossykate, yes she's a wonderful role model

Dame Edna Everage have a snitch dahlings!

i have a bit of a soft spot for Lilo (from Lilo & Stitch) - and even better, her big sister has Thighs.

Anyone heard of Grace Darling?

Amelia Earhart?

fishfinger ......

steady..

or bundle ......

Maya Angelou .. strength in adversity, amazing eloquence and creativity, dogged determination

what about Sally Clark, Angela Canning & all the other mothers who stood firm when they were accused of the worst crime imaginable.

Cherie Booth Blair