Favorite Female in History

Pocahontas was like 12 when she met the English for the first time, doing all those nekkid cartwheels. Dirty old men. Lol

The first one that comes to mind has to be Janis Joplin and Sarai/Sarah (Abraham's wife).

 

Rosie the riveter comes to my mind...

She is a cultural icon of the US, representing the 6 mill women who worked in the manufacturing plants that produced munitions and material during World War II. The character is now considered a feminist icon and a herald of women's economic power to come.

The icon was most closely associated with a real woman, Rose Monroe, who was born in Kentucky in 1920 and moved to Michigan during World War II. She worked as a riveter at a factory building B-29 and B-24 bombers for the US Army Air Forces. Monroe was asked to star in a promotional film about the war effort at home and was featured in a poster campaign.
The song "Rosie the Riveter" by Redd Evans and John Jacob Loeb was released in early 1943 and Rosie happened to best fit the description of the worker depicted in the song.

 

Janis Joplin, Marilyn Monroe, and Rosa Parks

 

You make it sound like a bad thing. Besides, I don't know any 16 year old who knows who Simone is, let alone reads her stuff.

I would probably go with Maya Angelou or Karen O from the Yeah Yeah Yeah's.

 

Maya Angelou-amazing woman.

 

My Mum, Oprah Winfrey and Janis Joplin.

 

In 1872 she ran for President of the United States, Victoria Woodhull.

She was born 100 years before her time. Hilary could learn a thing or two from Mrs. Woodhull.

Look her up, she's worth it!

 

I know who she is, and her books are on my hugely long reading list. And I'm 16. I've also read a far bit of Sylvia Plath, ie The Bell Jar and her poetry.

I'm going to stick with Germaine Greer and add Mother Theresa, Princess Diana and The Queen Mother.

 

Argon, I too find some of Greer's rants problematic. Influential brain though, no doubt about it. My amazing chicks are: Marilyn Waring and Kate Shepherd among others of course. They're too numerous to list

 

germaine greer is anti-female imo.

i love mother teresa.

queen victoria is also high on my list.

 

Madam Curie
Rosa Parks
Bodecia
Elanor Rosevelt
Margret Sanger
Ida Mae Gaskin

But my favorite, Catherine I of Russia.

 

Queen Elizabeth I, mostly because she funded schools for girls and she was the best ruler England EVER had EVER!!! not to mention i think she was a sweet ass chick and i don't think that she was a virgin. maybe at one point she was, but i think she was getting freaky with Sir Francis Drake. haha. oh, history humor. =]

 

Neither of them are really good examples of great women. Teresa was incredibly corrupt and Queen Victoria was a renowned anti-feminist.

 

i think Elizabeth Cady Stanton is highly underrated. especially in her later years.

anyone ever been to seneca falls? it's pretty amazing. the house stanton lived in during the convention era is open for tours. the experience...without words.

 

Janis Joplin,she made awsome music and was a tough chick, i look up to her definitley!

 

Boudica, the warrior Queen of the Icini tribe.

Led both men and women of other tribes to give the Romans hell for oppressing the 'native' tribes of England (before it was England).

They got their butts kicked in the end, but not before scoring some great victories.

Props to Boudica.

 

I *really* love Vandana Shiva and Margaret Atwood.

But in history overall? I'm not sure. Joan of Arc is pretty cool. Golda Meir is awesome too.

 

Jeanine Parvati Baker and Ina May Gaskin, but especially Jeanine because she was a champion for not just women and babies but men as well. She was an amazing woman, amazing does not really begin to fit her. She was magic in human form.

Not necessarily history, but Joan Baez. She might not consider herself a feminist but she is an amazing woman any way you look at it.

Lucy Stone is my favorite feminist.

Mary Dyer, the quaker hung for her beliefs.

Anna Mae Pictou Aquash. I hope she is never forgotten, and I wish she were better remembered.

 

Elizabeth Bathory

 

Traci Lords.