A Toast to Great Women

[Chantico]

The media (including the Internets) seem only fascinated (and therefore discuss ad nauseum) with women in distress of one kind or another or women who rank high on the Sexometer du jour. Are we in the Second Dark Ages yet?

Here are a few of my Heroines (in no particular order).

Molly.




Ann Wright (high ranking State Dept. official who resigned in 03 in protest of Iraq War)




Cindy.




Sally Ride (first American woman in outer space and only person to serve on both investigation panels of two shuttle disasters)




Sibel.

http://www.theage.com.au/ffximage/2004/07/06/07TRANSLATION_A,0.jpg

:toast:

Feel free to add your own heroines to this list.

[Annces]

1. Isadora Duncan

Nothing wrong with sex appeal. It is one of women's greatest gift.

I have thought it strange to worship people like Marilyn Monroe who was so self destructive or someone like James Dean.

[NMDemDist2]

2. i can add a few

and they are just the tip of the iceberg of strong smart women who have changed me

Bella Abzug



Shirley Chisolm



Maxine Waters



Betty Friedan



Jane Fonda



and (flame if you must) Hillary Rodham Clinton

[kimmerspixelated]

8. Barbara Kingsolver

Ann Richards, Barbara Boxer...

[kimmerspixelated]

3. Joni Mitchell

(Roberta Joan Anderson)

[NMDemDist2]

4. a very talented woman for sure n/t

[Botany]

5. I loves me some mama.

and Barbara McClintock



light years ahead of science in genetics .... she was put down
for her "wild idea" that DNA moves .... and she was right.

On a personal side
Gina, Amy, Diane, Jodi, Molly, Linda, Ellen, Laura, and that student nurse in England

:loveya: :bounce: :blush:


Ann Richards too.



(real hunting .... not killing for fun like Cheney)

[mmonk]

51. I love mama too.

[mmonk]

52. And this one

[Chantico]

6. More

Dr. Jane Goodall




Rachel Carson

[uppityperson]

29. Jane Goodall. I was looking up picts & found you had her already.

Women can do whatever they want, see?

[City Lights]

7. Susan B. Anthony and Mother Jones

:toast:

[flying_wahini]

9. Barbara Jordan, Helen Keller and Margaret Sanger

All of them sensitive and sharp women....

[devilgrrl]

48. Your post needs pictures of those great women...

[blm]

10. Jesselyn Raddack - Justice Dept. whistleblower. Teresa Heinz-Kerry, staunch supporter

of environmental activists and research, and benefactress of effective inner-city healthcare programs.

[City Lights]

11. Eleanor Roosevelt and Amelia Earhart

:toast:

[annabanana]

12. Jane, Christy, Marcy, Jeralyn at Firedoglake.com

Who have brought the Libby trial into our livingrooms, when no one else could.

[OxQQme]

13. My mother

and my sister.
And my ex-wifes for teaching me about my dependencies.
And both of my daughters for seeking me out years later and letting me know
"it's all right dad"

O, and Randi

[cui bono]

14. Dr. Helen Caldicott, PJ Harvey

Dr. Helen Caldicott




PJ Harvey

:headbang:

[Rosa Luxemburg]

15. Rosa Luxemburg and Rosa Parks

good name Rosa!

[cui bono]

21. I was just going to add Rosa Parks...

[sarge43]

16. My mother, Barbara Jordan, Molly Ivins, Jeanne Holms, Grace Hopper n/t

[Earth_First]

17. Mimi Kennedy, Dot Maver and Granny D

[sandnsea]

18. Jeanette Rankin

First female representative to Congress. Voted against both world wars. Early social activist for children, women and peace.

[murielm99]

19. Ida B. Wells,

crusading journalist, co-founder of the NAACP, protector of African American prisoner rights, and women's rights.

[hootinholler]

20. Gilda Radner.

I have no idea what here politics were, but she made me happy regularly.

-Hoot

[WinkyDink]

22. Sojourner Truth, Hypatia, Cleopatra VII, Boudicca, Mme. Curie,

Elizabeth I, Mary Magdalen, Babe Didricksen, Wilma Rudolph, Barbara Ehrenreich.

For starters.

[kdpeters]

46. Seconded -- Sojourner Truth!!

Since you mentioned her first, I'll add my dittos here. :D

[City Lights]

23. Harriet Tubman.

:toast:

[enigmatic]

24. Emily Carr and Nellie McClung

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


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

[cui bono]

25. Louise Brooks

[dogday]

26. Here's to you for this thread!!!

Love to see this :thumbsup:

[Beelzebud]

27. My mother. I'm who I am today, in large part, because of her.

[Missy Vixen]

28. Linda Ellerbee, Helen Thomas, Dr. Sarah Weddington

Linda Ellerbee and Molly Ivins convinced me that I should leave journalism to the experts. The third one is below.



I don't think this woman needs any introduction to DU. She's photographed with a man who's not worthy to carry her trash to the curb.



Dr. Sarah Weddington is the attorney that argued Roe v. Wade in front of the Supreme Court. I owe her my reproductive freedom.

Julie

[noamnety]

30. arundhati roy

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

[Evoman]

31. *raises glass* To Rosalind Franklind. Who did some important work in science, and who's work

was stolen from her by two unscrupulous male scientists.

[Morgana LaFey]

32. Ellie Smeal, I think Gloria Steinem was named already

Gerda Lerner, Robin Morgan, Shulamith Firestone, and a bunch of other 2nd Wave feminist authors I'm forgetting: Goddess love them all.

Starhawk.

What the hell, Joan d'Arc, Hildegaard of Bingen, and Catholic woman still fighting for (or leaving their faith over) priesthood for women. Not that I love the Catholic religion, just that I know that there are women who crave -- and whose path is -- spiritual leadership, and the Church remains closed to them for no good reason.

Eleanor Roosevelt (I think already mentioned), Betty Ford for her unbelievable honesty which also opened doors for women to get healthy.

About a gazillion women attorneys, professors, medical doctors, and trailblazers in other formerly non-traditional professions (e.g., engineering) who helped forge new paths for women and lock those doors in the OPEN position.

[shance]

33. Ida Tarbell - women who exposed Standard Oil company which resulted in its dissolution

and break up.

[Chantico]

34. More

Amelia




Virginia




Harper Lee




Mary Patricia McAleese (President of Ireland)




:toast:

[City Lights]

35. Aung San Suu Kyi

:toast:

[Control-Z]

36. Gerri Santoro

My mom was the greatest. (imo :) )

[Duppers]

41. I'll always remember your post about your mom.

:hug:

[wicket]

44. May your mom rest in peace

Never again!

:hug: :hug: :hug:

[mmonk]

57. Yep

She did you proud.

[Th1onein]

37. Emma Goldman

n/t

[Chantico]

38. More

Jackie Joyner Kersee





:toast:

[Bronyraurus]

39. Dorothy Parker, Pauline Kael

[Bjorn Against]

40. Granny D, Arundhati Roy, and Julia Butterfly-Hill

[niyad]

42. all of the above, and in addtion, aphra behn (playwright) charlotte perkins gilman (author) matilda

joselyn gage, alice paul, z budapest, starhawk, holly near, wangaari mathai, and betty bowers.

[gratefultobelib]

43. So many!! Joan Baez, Susan Sarandon, my mother and my daughters, and me!

[Duppers]

45. Thank you for this wonderful thread!.....a few more

Sacagawea
Margaret Mead
Madame Marie Curie
Clara Barton
Dr. Virginia Apgar
Rachel Carson
Judith Resnick
Dian Fossey
Margaret Fuller
Dianne Feinstein
Rosalind Franklin

And all the brave women in Africa facing hardships every day

[sakabatou]

47. Kampai

[GreenZoneLT]

49. Janeane Garofalo

Funny, passionate, politically active and cute as a bug.

[mmonk]

50. I'll toast to that, them.

[SalmonChantedEvening]

53. The women of DU

:toast: :loveya: :grouphug:

[DemReadingDU]

54. Great women!

great thread!

[nonconformist]

55. Ani DiFranco

[LeftishBrit]

56. All of the above

Also the Pankhursts; Emily Davison; and all the 'suffragettes'

And in no particular order:

Mary Ann Evans (George Eliot); Maria Edgeworth; Florence Nightingale; Mary Seacole; Elizabeth Blackwell; Elizabeth Garrett Anderson; and many others

[Greyhound]

58. Hear, hear!

:toast:

Is it worse enough yet?

[Katherine Brengle]

59. Inga Muscio --

especially after my aunt called her a commie :D.

There are so many amazing women...

[gratefultobelib]

60. Betty Ford--I voted for her in 1976!

[Bushwick Bill]

61. Jersey Girls.

And Donna Marsh O'Connor.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EymYwYc43iE

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

62. Dolores Iburruri, Arundhati Roy, Vanessa Redgrave, Jane Fonda (with pics)

[jilln]

63. Ingrid Newkirk

[flying rabbit]

64. Emmy Noether

A mathematician who... was a lot smarter than me. Very important in the world of physics.

[Duppers]

65. mr. duppers says hear here!

thanks, rabbit

[LeftishBrit]

66. Great nomination!

Has anyone mentioned Marie Curie, or Dorothy Hodgkin?

[Marnieworld]

67. Helen Thomas

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

68. Twas ever thus

[cui bono]

69. Amy Goodman