Tiggy Posted February 15, 2011 Share Posted February 15, 2011 (edited) my sis is organising the international womens day at work and needs some ideas of women that we feel are inspirational Mo Molan, Florance Nightingale, Marie Pasteur, Edited February 15, 2011 by Guest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sari Posted February 15, 2011 Share Posted February 15, 2011 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...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiggy Posted February 15, 2011 Author Share Posted February 15, 2011 Dead or alive?? either Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sari Posted February 15, 2011 Share Posted February 15, 2011 OOOH!! well, once upon a time....... Mary Seacole, Marie Curie, Annie Besant, Elaine Morgan OBE, .....Erin Pizzey....Jacqueline Wilson.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maggie_Aderin-Pocock Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
majorbloodnock Posted February 15, 2011 Share Posted February 15, 2011 Grace Darling Edith Cavell Violette Szabo Queen Elizabeth (both) Queen Victoria Joan of Arc Mother Theresa The various Pankhursts (Emmeline, Sylvia, Christabel) Jane Austen The Bronte sisters Margaret Thatcher (for better or worse) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goodinparts Posted February 15, 2011 Share Posted February 15, 2011 Aung san Suu Kyi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saronne Posted February 15, 2011 Share Posted February 15, 2011 Rosa Parks Helen Keller That woman who had cancer but lived longer than expected and ran all those marathons and did those triathalons... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redhotchick Posted February 15, 2011 Share Posted February 15, 2011 Aung san Suu Kyi Well said GoodinParts! I Googled for inspiration (no pun intended!) and was aghast at the number of woman who have reached such high positions in Government and Commerce internationally. http://ceoworld.biz/ceo/2010/03/23/top-25-most-inspirational-and-influential-women-in-the-world Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sadietoo Posted February 15, 2011 Share Posted February 15, 2011 Less exalted I know, but I find them inspiring nevertheless... Germaine Greer Carol Ann Duffy Jennifer Saunders Joan Baez Glenda Jackson Dame Edna Everage Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Powerlady Posted February 16, 2011 Share Posted February 16, 2011 Rosa ParksHelen Keller That woman who had cancer but lived longer than expected and ran all those marathons and did those triathalons... Her name was Jane Tomlinson I believe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinnamon Posted February 16, 2011 Share Posted February 16, 2011 J K Rowling Queen Elizabeth 1 Paula Radcliffe Dame Judi Dench Margaret Thatcher Maya Angelou Madonna Kate Winslet Delia Smith Dame Vivienne Westwood Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CallyChook Posted February 16, 2011 Share Posted February 16, 2011 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snoxy Posted February 16, 2011 Share Posted February 16, 2011 I named my 5 ex batts after inspirational women... Florence Nightingale Audrey Hepburn Enid Blyton Grace Darling Beatrix Potter (she loved chickens I believe) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ubereglu Posted February 16, 2011 Share Posted February 16, 2011 Elizabeth Garrett, (first female doctor) Emmeline Pankhurst and Millicent Fawcett, (Women's suffrage movement) Margaret Thatcher Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sari Posted February 16, 2011 Share Posted February 16, 2011 Margaret Thatcher inspired me to join the Labour Party at 18...no joke. Although, some may say they have become one.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sadietoo Posted February 16, 2011 Share Posted February 16, 2011 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!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiggy Posted February 17, 2011 Author Share Posted February 17, 2011 thankyou all, I knew you could be relied upon to come up with the goods my sis now has more ideas than she can deal with, serve her right for asking us Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bronze Posted February 17, 2011 Share Posted February 17, 2011 Trying to think of modern ones. Karen Woo Benezir Bhutto? Oprah? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bronze Posted February 17, 2011 Share Posted February 17, 2011 Audrey Hepburn Enid Blyton (she loved chickens I believe) a 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
majorbloodnock Posted February 17, 2011 Share Posted February 17, 2011 ...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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redbug Posted February 17, 2011 Share Posted February 17, 2011 Dame Claire Bertschinger DBE went to listen to her story. Very interesting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rabbitfluff Posted February 18, 2011 Share Posted February 18, 2011 At first glance I read that as "irrational women". That could've been a very long list! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiggy Posted February 18, 2011 Author Share Posted February 18, 2011 At first glance I read that as "irrational women". That could've been a very long list! me first Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NannyOgg Posted February 18, 2011 Share Posted February 18, 2011 Angela Gorman...a truly inspiring woman who has helped to save the lives of literally thousands of women in recent years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinnamon Posted February 18, 2011 Share Posted February 18, 2011 How about Alison Lapper,the disabled woman who had a statue of herself heavily pregnant displayed in Trafalgar Square? Or Christina Schmid,the wonderfully dignified Afghanistan widow who applauded her husbands coffin as it passed in the street? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
