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Who are today's inspirational women and how do we feel about current female role models?

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JustineMumsnet · 23/09/2010 13:37

I'm attending an event tonight which is discussing today's inspirational women and wanted to pick your brians please.

Who are your role models - do you have them, do they bear any resemblance to those that tend to top the lists in the meeja? Are there women that you find inspiring and why?

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JustineMumsnet · 23/09/2010 17:31

@LeninGrad

Sarah Waters, Martina Navratilova and Tilda Swinton.

First two for being out and proud, Martina particularly at a time when it wasn't easy at all. Tilda for doing interesting, non-traditional roles and having a different heterosexual home setup to the usual and talking about it unashamedly.

What kind of event is it?

It's an event put on by coutts and I'm on a panel with Joan bakewell, Camilla batmaghelli and sue mcgregor so that's my role models sewn up!

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JustineMumsnet · 23/09/2010 23:31

Thanks so much all for your suggestions - I plagiarised mercilessly and only ran out of things to say when someone asked for a male role model . But I had a really lovely chat with Joan, Sue, Camilla and Angela Hartnett too - was great fun and I got to donate 500 smackers to Every Disabled Child Matters for the pleasure of going along.

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JustineMumsnet · 23/09/2010 23:57

Well... I said that pretty much all the panel had been nominated several times [diplomatic] and then said that any high profile woman in politics in this country was a bit of a hero because of the vitriol and ridicule they are routinely exposed to from the press (mostly but not exclusively the tabloids). And then I said you lot, natch. And then I said my mum .

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