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

In a similar vein TheCountryGirl

Stephanie Slater

A kidnap victim of Michael Sams who had already murdered his first kidnap victim Julie Dart after she attempted to escape. Stephanie died of cancer last year at the age of 50, her experience haunted her until the end.

Dropping in the Heroine Collective: www.theheroinecollective.com

Doris Lessing Nobel Prize Winner.

Vivienne Westwood
Germaine Greer
Floella Benjamin.

Caroline Lucas
Helen Steel
Mona Elthawy
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Arundhati Roy
Germaine Greer
Elizabeth Kolbert
Anna Politskovskaya
Angela Davies
Franny Armstrong
Naomi Klein
Kathleen Stock
Dale Spender
Gloria Steinman
Julie Bindel
Helena Kennedy QC
Doreen Lawrence
Sheila Rowbotham

And Pussy Riot

Back in the mists of time
Emma Goldman
Mary Anning
Harriet Martineau
Dr James Barrie (Margaret Anne Buckley)
Simone De Beauvior

Denise Lewis
Victoria Wood
Betty Boothroyd
Mo Molam
Dawn French

Maryam Mirzakhani (first woman Fields medallist).

Composers Elizabeth Jacquet dear la guerre and Barbara Strozzi

Emelie du Chatelet (another mathematician). And Emmy Noether.

Posie Parker

Mary Seacole
Ada Lovelace
Margaret Hamilton
Malala Yousafzai

Anne Frank
Helen Keller

Ida B. Wells

Katherine Grainger

Dorothy Hodgkin (I know she's been mentioned upthread but silentcrow's list of scientists overlooked for Nobels shouldn't have included her, she got one all to herself, she was that good)

Jenny Murray
Polly Neate - Securing legislation to criminalise coercive and controlling behaviour

• Winning a total of £33 million in new Government funding for refuges
• Launching the Safer Futures project; increasing the capacity-building support offered to local domestic abuse services; and getting the issue of abuse in the family courts onto the public and political agenda with the Child First campaign
• Securing legislation to prevent survivors of domestic abuse being cross-examined by their abusive ex-partners in the family courts.
• Change that Lasts, Women’s Aid’s vision for the future which places the survivor at the heart of the response to domestic abuse.

Women prime ministers of the world All the women that work tirelessly, every day, in whatever way, for the rights of women and children, and in their support

Marie stopes (birth control pioneer)
Dian Fossey (conservation program)
Mary Cronk (MBE - services to mid-wifery)

*midwifery

Anja Ringgren Loven who set up a home for children in Nigeria who have been accused of witchcraft and been rejected by their families. I think she's amazing.

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www.itv.com/news/2017-02-03/one-year-on-starving-witch-boy-left-for-dead-is-happy-healthy-and-ready-for-school

Trigger warning for 2nd link, contains very upsetting images of emaciated toddler.

Victoria Wood
Wangaari Mathai
Anita Rodick

Barbara Hepworth

Mary Elmes

Fannie Lou Hamer

Wilma Mankiller

Dame Cicely Saunders
Victoria Wood
Dagenham Ford Strikers 1968

Margaret Hodges MP

Mhairi Black
Ruth Bader Ginsberg
Sylvia Plath

Or pick from a whole mosaic of them:

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-46117128

Katherine Chidley and Sophie Scholl