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kittinSol -> RE: Female role models your examples and opinions (9/3/2008 4:02:48 PM)

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ORIGINAL: Vendaval

Vous êtes un amoureux des femmes. 


Lui, je ne sais pas, mais moi, oui :-).



celticlord2112 -> RE: Female role models your examples and opinions (9/3/2008 4:09:56 PM)

FR:

My mother
My grandmother
Eleanor Roosevelt
Rear Admiral Grace Hopper
Jeanne d'Arc



SavageFaerie -> RE: Female role models your examples and opinions (9/3/2008 4:26:31 PM)

In a history sense hands down would be Queen Elizabeth I.  Noted to be one of the most successful rulers of England. She held her stance despite being a woman in the day and age of her reign.

In my personal life, my grandmother who taught us not judge others different than ourselves.
My mother who reinforced this herself and showed by example.
To my grown kids that still follow this example. Okay granted they arent all girls but it reinforces the above two.



Lucylastic -> RE: Female role models your examples and opinions (9/3/2008 5:00:37 PM)

Bodicea(yeah I knowthe spelling of her name has changed over the years, this is how ive always spelt it)
Cleopatra,
Elizabeth 1st
Sonja Henie
Florence Nightingale
Emily Pankhurst
Camile Paglia, who made more sense than most
My Godmother Maggie (she terrified me sometimes but god what a woman)
My History Teacher Ms Smith the harridan who showed me I could do it.
My Mum, simply marvelous woman,
My Aunt a free spirit with an evil sense of humour
Many others that escape me for now
Lucy





DarkSteven -> RE: Female role models your examples and opinions (9/3/2008 5:57:54 PM)

1. My grandmother.  Came to the US fleeing the Nazis in the 1930s.  Her husband died two weeks after I was born, in 1956.  She took the insurance money and bought a house, and ran a physical therapy business in the basement.  She worked until she was 87.  She had nary a cross word for anyone (except Hitler) and was loved by all who knew her.

2. Margaret Miller, who founded Lafayette, where I used to live, and was the world's only woman bank president in the 1900s:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lafayette,_Colorado

3. Cher.  She wasn't taken seriously when she said she wanted to be a rocker.  She did.  She wasn't taken seriously when she said she wanted to be an actress.  She got an Oscar.  If you saw her in Stuck On You, you know that she isn't above being made fun of.

4. Carol Burnett.  In my opinion the most gifted physical comedienne ever to walk the earth.  Absolutely fearless to face the audience each week for the Q&A session before each show.

5.  The two sisters profiled in the book Having Our Say.  Brought up poor but proud, never complaining, always demanding of themselves.



lusciouslips19 -> RE: Female role models your examples and opinions (9/3/2008 6:01:32 PM)


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ORIGINAL: DarkSteven

1. My grandmother.  Came to the US fleeing the Nazis in the 1930s.  Her husband died two weeks after I was born, in 1956.  She took the insurance money and bought a house, and ran a physical therapy business in the basement.  She worked until she was 87.  She had nary a cross word for anyone (except Hitler) and was loved by all who knew her.

2. Margaret Miller, who founded Lafayette, where I used to live, and was the world's only woman bank president in the 1900s:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lafayette,_Colorado

3. Cher.  She wasn't taken seriously when she said she wanted to be a rocker.  She did.  She wasn't taken seriously when she said she wanted to be an actress.  She got an Oscar.  If you saw her in Stuck On You, you know that she isn't above being made fun of.

4. Carol Burnett.  In my opinion the most gifted physical comedienne ever to walk the earth.  Absolutely fearless to face the audience each week for the Q&A session before each show.

5.  The two sisters profiled in the book Having Our Say.  Brought up poor but proud, never complaining, always demanding of themselves.



I love you!!![sm=hearts.gif]



Vendaval -> RE: Female role models your examples and opinions (9/3/2008 9:16:58 PM)

There are several female entertainers that stand out in my mind.
 
Tina Turner, Loretta Lynn, Noami and Wynonna Judd, Lucille Ball, Katherine Hepburn.



Lucylastic -> RE: Female role models your examples and opinions (9/4/2008 7:24:44 AM)

Audrey Hepburn, the Fair Lady herself, classic stunning talented,
Jane Goodhall.Diane Fossey leaders in their fields.
Mae West, for pure sexual innuendo gotta love her
Lucy



LaTigresse -> RE: Female role models your examples and opinions (9/4/2008 7:34:02 AM)

My two grandmothers, my neighbour when I was a kid growing up. Definately Elizabeth 1 and Boudica. Mary Magdalene.



RCdc -> RE: Female role models your examples and opinions (9/4/2008 7:47:09 AM)

My mother
My grandmother Jessie.
Mary Magdelene
Maya Angelou
Judith
Helen Sharman
Boadica
Florence Nightingale
Barbara Hepworth
Judi Dench
Saint Joan
 
the.dark.



meatcleaver -> RE: Female role models your examples and opinions (9/4/2008 7:56:21 AM)

I can't think of any but that is not sexist as I can't think of any men either and they have been more prominent in history. Probably....

Maria Salomee Skłodowska-Curie
Camille Claudel
Rosa Luxemburg
Mary Jane Seacole

aaah there are few when you start thinking but I'll end here.



IrishMist -> RE: Female role models your examples and opinions (9/4/2008 8:21:05 AM)

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ORIGINAL: Vendaval

Rather than hijack another thread here is a new one. 
 
Who are your female role models?  Feminists you admire? Women you view as heroines? 
 
Please state why and provide links if appropriate.
 
And for goodness sake, no name calling!   [sm=hippie.gif]


Though I would not go so far as to say she is a role model or heroine...I do see her as someone who is 'up and coming' that has already done so much in her short life.

Kory Arvizu-Johnson, who at the age of 9 founded the Children for a Safe Environment

http://www.c4se.org/index.htm

http://www.hispanicbusiness.com/influentials/details.asp?id=27&year=1999



kittinSol -> RE: Female role models your examples and opinions (9/4/2008 8:42:07 AM)

Camille Claudel - my mother did her History of Art thesis on her, so I bathed in Claudel's work for a while in my youth. She was a brilliant sculptor... alas, she was also Rodin's lover, which very much contributed to sending her to the mental asylum.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camille_Claudel



LaTigresse -> RE: Female role models your examples and opinions (9/4/2008 8:47:25 AM)

I loved that movie about her!! So sad.



dcnovice -> RE: Female role models your examples and opinions (9/4/2008 8:54:32 AM)

Corrie ten Boom, who worked in the underground and sheltered Jews during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. She wrote a wonderful book called The Hiding Place.



dcnovice -> RE: Female role models your examples and opinions (9/4/2008 8:56:15 AM)

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Eleanor Roosevelt


I'll second CL on Mrs. R.



bipolarber -> RE: Female role models your examples and opinions (9/4/2008 9:11:59 AM)

Aside from those in my family, I'd probably list my high school English teacher, (no link available, Firm. You'll just have to stew about it.) And I also admire a lot of the "sex positive" feminists, like Suzie Bright, or Carole Queen, Sex professionals like Annie Sprinkle or Hyapatia Lee.




dcnovice -> RE: Female role models your examples and opinions (9/4/2008 9:16:20 AM)

J.K. Rowling, who had a creative vision and persevered through hard times to bring it to life, and who has enchanted millions of kids with the magic of reading.



Vendaval -> RE: Female role models your examples and opinions (9/4/2008 5:55:40 PM)

Kitten, one of the French professors at my university wrote a book about Camille Claudel.  If you like I will search for the title.
 
Many non-Spanish speakers are not familiar with the intellectual greatness of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz.
 

"Welcome to the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Project.
The Sor Juana Project is sponsored by
 
The Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire"
 
"We are honored to present to you the greatest poet the American continent produced in the seventeenth century. She was born November 12, 1651, in San Miguel Nepantla, a village south of Mexico City. She was a Poet Nun, a woman of genius, and a person of intellectual prowess whose ideas and accomplishments were ahead of her time."

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~sorjuana/
 



kittinSol -> RE: Female role models your examples and opinions (9/4/2008 6:19:42 PM)

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ORIGINAL: Vendaval

Kitten, one of the French professors at my university wrote a book about Camille Claudel.  If you like I will search for the title.



Would you mind, Ven? I'd be really interested. Thank you :-) .



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