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Dead or alive??

 

Shami Chakrabatti....Karren Brady....Hope Powell.......The Cheif Guide....or any of my fellow Guiders espesh my friend Kirsty is amazing....she's on the media team, at Uni, has about 3 Units too....and that amazing astronomer, a Black British woman whose name is on the tip of my tongue...... :roll:

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for me as a nurse, Helen Fairchild is an inspiration. A young, passionate woman who went out to france in WW1 and actually died in 1918 after abdominal surgery. It's thought that a large part of her medical condition was caused by the effects of nursing patients during mustard gas attacks. She helped over 2,000 soldiers on the front.

 

I would imagine there were many young ladies who did the same, I hope a number of them British - for some reason Helen is the most remembered.

 

http://www.vlib.us/medical/MaMh/MyAunt.htm

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Margaret Thatcher inspired me to join the Labour Party at 18...no joke. Although, some may say they have become one....

Me too!!! but she was a grammar school girl made good so definitely inspirational in some respects at least...(and btw you would never have seen her and my late, and much missed MIL in the same room together!!!! - MIL used to get stopped by passers by mistaking her for The Thatch (and harangued at times :( ) although she always took it as a compliment because she was a huge fan!)

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Audrey Hepburn

Enid Blyton

(she loved chickens I believe)

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really?

 

Isn't it interesting how we all differ. I don't necessarily agree withThatcher did for example but I admire a lot of stuff about her (first woman pm etc) but some people hate her so much they wouldn't agree

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...Isn't it interesting how we all differ. I don't necessarily agree withThatcher did for example but I admire a lot of stuff about her (first woman pm etc) but some people hate her so much they wouldn't agree

I agree. I suppose it depends on one's definition of "inspiring". I, for instance, disagree with Snoxy about Enid Blyton, since I believe she did nothing unusual or artistically meritorious, but I agree wholeheartedly with Cinnamon about J K Rowling's inclusion; she rekindled a whole generation of children's interest in books. Nonetheless, I can see plenty of points Snoxy might raise in justifiable defence of Ms Blyton which I can only discount because of my personal priorities. In other words, totally subjective.

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