Inspirational Women list

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Let's have a list of all the women out there who are an inspiration to others. Here's 3 to start us off.

Ada Lovelace
Marie Curie
Malala Yousafzai

YY to Boudicca. Did you know one of the Roman leaders wrote home saying how freaked out their troops were by the long haired young spear maidens who rode into battle against them on little shaggy ponies? The sexes were equal here then.

Arts list:

Delia Derbyshire
Diane Arbus
Marina Abramovic
Kate Bush
Nina Simone
Carole King
Meryl Streep
Cindy Sherman
Louise Bourgeois
Leonora Carrington
Tilda Swinton
Guerilla Girls
Frida Kahlo
Barbara Kruger
Nico

Eleanor Marx
Harriet Harman
Karen Brady

Mary Beard

Hedy Lamarr

Aphra Behn

J K Rowling
Barbara Hepworth

I bought this recently, to try to counter the horror. Portraits of 100 inspirational women, with short bio of each

www.npg.org.uk/business/publications/100-pioneering-women

Martina Navratilova.
Jo Brand
Jane Austen

Jane Tomlinson
Jean Hatchett

Angela Hartnett
Elizabeth Haigh
Catherine Healy
Rachel Humphry

All of them Michelin starred chefs.

Sophia Duleep Singh
Emily Davison
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
Valentina Tereshkova
Svetlana Savitskaya
Julian of Norwich
Hildegard of Bingen
Empress Matilda
Enheduanna

Emma Thompson
Tessa Jowell

Jocelyn Bell Burnell
Chien-Shung Wu
Dorothy Hodgkin
Liese Meitner
Mary-Claire King
Fabiola Gianotti
(All sciences, all overlooked by Nobel)

Chimanda Ngozi Adichie
Hibo Wardere
Alice Walker
bell hooks
Zaha Hadid

Cllr Sarah Field

Mary Robinson

Stephanie Davies Arai

Ann Sinnott

Katherine Johnson
Dorothy Vaughan
Mary Jackson

The hidden figures of the NASA Space programme who were incredibly intelligent, hard working women, equally if not more capable than the men that worked at NASA (the overwhelming majority of whom were white) who faced the double whammy of being female and black in racist segregated America. We should hear and be taught their stories and they didn't pull the ladder up behind them when they achieved success instead they encouraged and fought for their fellow women of whatever colour.

Rosa Parks

Made a very brave decision which cost her her job and resulted in her receiving thousands of death threats.

Noor Inayat Khan

Member of the SOE, parachuted into France behind enemy lines, collated and sent information back to the UK, worked with the French Resistance. Was given the option of being smuggled out of France back to the UK when the group she worked with was betrayed and most of them captured but refused saying she wanted to stay even though she knew the incredible danger she was in. Was inevitably betrayed, captured and tortured before being executed but never gave up her fellow SOE members or members of the French Resistance.

Constance Markievicz

I'm googling the names that I don't recognise - such a wonderful variety of accomplished and inspirational women!

Elizabeth Anscombe

From her Guardian obit: “She was notorious for a forthright foulmouthedness which was only enhanced by the beauty of her voice...

Except when pregnant, she wore trousers, often under a tunic, which, in the 50s and 60s, was often disapproved of. Once, entering a smart restaurant in Boston, she was told that ladies were not admitted in trousers. She simply took them off.”

Lady Hale
Rose Heilbronn
Helen Sharman
Jocelyn Bell Bernell
Tani Grey Thompson
Mo Mowlem
Barbara Castle
Dorothy Parker
ARTEMISIA GENTILESCHI
Lee Miller

Elisabeth Fritzl and Michelle Knight.
Men did their worst and these women found a strength within them that even men's fiercest fury couldn't diminish.

Helen Sharman.

Ellie Simmonds.

Jessica Ennis-Hill.

Margaret Thatcher.

Elsie Inglis

Told "go home and sit down", instead she set up camp hospitals in war zones and saved thousands of lives with good hygiene.

Total badass.