Favorite Female in History

Who is your favorite female historical figure?

It can be anyone dead or still living.

Mine are: Anne Boleyn, Elizabeth I, Charlotte Brontë, Pocahontas, all of the women who faught for suffrage rights, Rosa Parks and a I'm sure more that I cannot think of right now....

 

I'll bet someone $50.00 that a sixteen year old says either Simone de Beauvoir or Sylvia Plath.

 

Hatsepshut

 

Eva Braun-I like journeywomen



Husband: Adolf Hitler (m. 29-Apr-1945)
Suicide Attempt (Nov-1932)
Shot: Self-Inflicted (Nov-1932)
Suicide Attempt (28-May-1935)
Drug Overdose sleeping pills (28-May-1935)
Exhumed 1970
Risk Factors: Smoking

 

Eleanor of Aquitaine

 

countess markievicz

 

Mariane Pearl

 

Ida Mae Gaskin

 

Funnily enough I just finished 'The Bell Jar' this morning, but I don't think she was all that influential. I actually think Germaine Greer was rather influential, in feminist terms anyway!

 

Dorothy Parker and Manuela Saenz for totally different reasons.

 

Beyonce Knowles..And Audrey Hepburn!

 

Cleopatra, Marilyn Monroe, Jane Fonda, Julia Butterfly Hill

 

Mother teresa - we all know how she helped so many poor people.

Indira Gandhi- The deadliest female leader in the history of India, if you were in 1970s India and you crossed her, you are dead.

 

Germaine Greer, Bea Campbell and Vanessa Redgrave.

 

Concepción Arenal.

 

Besides disagreeing with some of her views on sex & gender roles, I think Ayn Rand had an interesting mind. She was fascinating and was one of the founding mothers of libertarianism.

The other founding mothers of libertarianism fascinate me as well: Rose Wilder Lane, for example.

I have a lot of respect for writers, I suppose, because I want to pursue a career in journalism.. or maybe teaching writing

 

elizabeth i

pocahontas
jane austen

 

my mum.
I'm yet to meet someone who works as hard as she does and never onve has she said anything about it nor has she ever asked for help.

A few years ago she used to work 6 days a week and on fridays would help out with batted women, she did that for 20 years. Did everything from getting their clothes out of their houses with them to setting up bank accounts and helping them find jobs.

And still after all this she's given me and my sister everything we've ever needed, helped us with any issues we had and is the most amazing role model for us.

 

Hatshepset
Saint Agnes (it's one thing to wish to avoid violation but out of fanatical devotion to a God?)
Matilda of England (Henry 1st daughter)
Eleanor of Aquitaine
Elizabeth 1 of England
Nell Gwynn
Emma Goldman
Isak Dinesen (spelling?)
Elsa the Lioness

The neurotic English teacher in me had to include the lioness because "female" is an adjective and without a noun, it is open to interpretation

Do 16 year old girls still read Simone?

 

I truly admire and have a great deal of respect for, Maya Angelou. An absolutely remarkable woman. Phenomenal woman...indeed. She's a huge inspiration to me and the paths I take in my life.

Still I Rise by Maya Angelou​

You may write me down in history​

With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise.

Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
'Cause I walk like I've got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.

Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I'll rise.

Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops.
Weakened by my soulful cries.

Does my haughtiness offend you?
Don't you take it awful hard
'Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines
Diggin' in my own back yard.

You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I'll rise.

Does my sexiness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I've got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?

Out of the huts of history's shame
I rise
Up from a past that's rooted in pain
I rise
I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.