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By (user no longer on site) OP
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So seeing as it is International women's day and being inspired by the suggestions made on Tuberose women's day thread.
I just wondered which women either in history or in current times you think have changed the world in some way. |
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Marie Stopes I feel is often overlooked as an inspirational woman but her advocacy of birth control and sex education has been a game changer for women around the world. |
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By *ea monkeyMan
over a year ago
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I’ve often found or at least felt that the real trailblazers are the unsung ones that receive no recognition but allowed the celebrated women to build their legends.
It’s the silent groundbreakers, the ones who refused to stand back or by in tiny ways that have made as much impact as the ‘names’, changing the world one mind at a time |
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"Marie Stopes I feel is often overlooked as an inspirational woman but her advocacy of birth control and sex education has been a game changer for women around the world. "
There's a good recent podcast on her, I know it was a hundred years ago but some of her views are very problematic by our standards. |
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I've always admired Mary Anning, an archaeologist and fossil collector who helped forge our understanding of prehistoric times and was a prominent woman in science at a time when it wasn't the thing  |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Baroness Margaret Hilda Thatcher
I suppose we didn't specify they should have changed it for the better."
This isn't about good or bad it's about women that people think have changed the world for whatever reason. |
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"So seeing as it is International women's day and being inspired by the suggestions made on Tuberose women's day thread.
I just wondered which women either in history or in current times you think have changed the world in some way. "
Rosa Parks
Kalpana Chawla
Mary McLeod Bethune
Hattie McDaniel
Mahalia Jackson
Constance Baker Motley
Marjorie Joyner
Coretta Scott King
Harriet Tubman
Winnie Mandela
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Greta thunberg
You mean her parents who are using a vulnerable child to push their own agenda  "
Regardless she is still a woman who has changed the world.
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"So seeing as it is International women's day and being inspired by the suggestions made on Tuberose women's day thread.
I just wondered which women either in history or in current times you think have changed the world in some way.
Rosa Parks
Kalpana Chawla
Mary McLeod Bethune
Hattie McDaniel
Mahalia Jackson
Constance Baker Motley
Marjorie Joyner
Coretta Scott King
Harriet Tubman
Winnie Mandela
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Winnie the murderer  |
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"hedy lamarr...she was an actress that invented wifi and bluetooth and a bunch of other things way back in the 1940's but the world wasnt ready for it
That’s Hedley...... "
not trying to sound like the shitest panto in the world but,oh no it isnt
her real name hedwig eva maria kiesler |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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OK can we please remember you don't have to agree with people's choices but I didn't specify they had to have change the world for the better.
There are some fantastic and thought provoking answers here. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"So seeing as it is International women's day and being inspired by the suggestions made on Tuberose women's day thread.
I just wondered which women either in history or in current times you think have changed the world in some way.
Rosa Parks
Kalpana Chawla
Mary McLeod Bethune
Hattie McDaniel
Mahalia Jackson
Constance Baker Motley
Marjorie Joyner
Coretta Scott King
Harriet Tubman
Winnie Mandela
Winnie the murderer "
Winnie Mandela yes. How many murders does the society idolise? This country has statues of murders so please don’t talk. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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We're yet to see it, but Kamala Harris
I do hope she delivers
She has such an opportunity
I hope her Vice Presidency amounts to a couple of firsts at the point of inauguration |
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"We're yet to see it, but Kamala Harris
I do hope she delivers
She has such an opportunity
I hope her Vice Presidency amounts to a couple of firsts at the point of inauguration "
Oh my heart, yes, so much |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"We're yet to see it, but Kamala Harris
I do hope she delivers
She has such an opportunity
I hope her Vice Presidency amounts to* a couple of firsts at the point of inauguration "
*to more than
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By (user no longer on site)
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Pamela Anderson for her contribution to womens bodies.
Before she arrived implants were not pushed forward so willingly into the faces of a mainstream audience or that large(ly) seen.
Except maybe Dollys? |
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So many woman have changed the world in many ways. For me however she may not have changed the world but my mum has always changed mine for the better and will always the the most inspirational woman in my world  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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The female sewing machinists at Ford's Dagenham plant whose strike in the late 1960's led directly to the Equal Pay Act of 1974. Millions of British women benefitted from their courage. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"So many woman have changed the world in many ways. For me however she may not have changed the world but my mum has always changed mine for the better and will always the the most inspirational woman in my world "
Best comment so far. I agree with you mate. |
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"Baroness Margaret Hilda Thatcher
I suppose we didn't specify they should have changed it for the better.
This isn't about good or bad it's about women that people think have changed the world for whatever reason. "
Yes but some of the suggestions are crackers |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Baroness Margaret Hilda Thatcher
I suppose we didn't specify they should have changed it for the better.
This isn't about good or bad it's about women that people think have changed the world for whatever reason.
Yes but some of the suggestions are crackers "
I don't see it that way, I see them as women who have changed something in the world.
There are no wrong or right answers. |
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Katherine Johnson, African American mathematician who was pivotal in the Apollo space missions for manually calculating trajectories amongst other things. |
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"Katherine Johnson, African American mathematician who was pivotal in the Apollo space missions for manually calculating trajectories amongst other things."
I was just about to post the same, along with four others, Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Melba Roy and JoAnne Morgan. |
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"hedy lamarr...she was an actress that invented wifi and bluetooth and a bunch of other things way back in the 1940's but the world wasnt ready for it
That’s Hedley......
not trying to sound like the shitest panto in the world but,oh no it isnt
her real name hedwig eva maria kiesler"
Not according to Harvey Korean...
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"hedy lamarr...she was an actress that invented wifi and bluetooth and a bunch of other things way back in the 1940's but the world wasnt ready for it
That’s Hedley......
not trying to sound like the shitest panto in the world but,oh no it isnt
her real name hedwig eva maria kiesler
Not according to Harvey Korean...
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By (user no longer on site)
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"So seeing as it is International women's day and being inspired by the suggestions made on Tuberose women's day thread.
I just wondered which women either in history or in current times you think have changed the world in some way.
Rosa Parks
Kalpana Chawla
Mary McLeod Bethune
Hattie McDaniel
Mahalia Jackson
Constance Baker Motley
Marjorie Joyner
Coretta Scott King
Harriet Tubman
Winnie Mandela
Winnie the murderer "
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"I've always admired Mary Anning, an archaeologist and fossil collector who helped forge our understanding of prehistoric times and was a prominent woman in science at a time when it wasn't the thing "
Yes! Mary Anning is an idol of ours (one half of us is a geology geek).
Marie Curie
Rosalind Franklin
Ada Lovelace
Liese Meitner
Dorothy Hodgkin
Katherine Johnson
Florence Sabin
Jennifer Doudna
Katalin Kariko
I could go on  |
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"Baroness Margaret Hilda Thatcher
I suppose we didn't specify they should have changed it for the better."
She showed it was possible for women to get the top job in politics at a time when very few women were in positions of power. Regardless of what she did with it its a great achievement just to get there. |
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By *eliWoman
over a year ago
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Carol Ann Duffy - the first female Poet Laureate. Studied by uneager students up and down the country who resignedly read her poetry. Revisiting them shows how powerful and moving her words are.
George Eliot - adopted a pseudonym to avoid being lumped in with other female authors of that time. Brilliant studies of life in rural England.
Mary Shelley - Frankenstein's influence can still be read in much modern science fiction today. Probably the best Gothic novel of all time.
Angela Carter - Her Bloody Chambers was and still is a groundbreaking retelling of fairytales in a world where even the stories depict the women as hapless heroines waiting to be rescued.
There are so many more inspirational writers - Maya Angelou's poetic yet powerful texts, Jane Austen's witty, satires, Ursula Le Guin's amazing science fiction, Virgina Woolf's pitch perfect musings on mental health, love, motivation... those are the women who inspire me because their words gave and still give me much needed escapism. They harness the power of language, create complex universes and write of universal emotions we all recognise and have felt. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Baroness Margaret Hilda Thatcher
I suppose we didn't specify they should have changed it for the better.
She showed it was possible for women to get the top job in politics at a time when very few women were in positions of power. Regardless of what she did with it its a great achievement just to get there. "
Absolutely. |
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By *indergirlWoman
over a year ago
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Eleanor Roosevelt aside from being first lady she was advocating for human rights, women's rights, and children's causes. She went on to become chair of the U.N.'s Human Rights Commission in 1945 |
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"Eleanor Roosevelt aside from being first lady she was advocating for human rights, women's rights, and children's causes. She went on to become chair of the U.N.'s Human Rights Commission in 1945"
Oh I didn't know that, im off to Google thank you. |
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By *indergirlWoman
over a year ago
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"Marie Stopes I feel is often overlooked as an inspirational woman but her advocacy of birth control and sex education has been a game changer for women around the world. "
Margaret Sanger was another who advocated this as well, more so in America getting oral birth control approved |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Sophie Scholl. A 21 year old German student, she led non violent resistance to the Nazis at huge personal risk and was tortured and executed in 1943.
And of course Anne Frank whose diary is still a bestseller. She died in 1945 aged only 15. |
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"Carol Ann Duffy - the first female Poet Laureate. Studied by uneager students up and down the country who resignedly read her poetry. Revisiting them shows how powerful and moving her words are."
She was educated in my home town. My mum knew her through football (her dad managed the local football team that my uncle played in & my mum was a ref). Mum did I have met her but I don’t remember (sorry!!  )
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"Marie Stopes I feel is often overlooked as an inspirational woman but her advocacy of birth control and sex education has been a game changer for women around the world.
There's a good recent podcast on her, I know it was a hundred years ago but some of her views are very problematic by our standards. "
It is an interesting choice ... certainly her advocacy for birth control and sex education was a great boon in giving women choice.
It is also however interesting how even the clinic in her name has chosen to rename to MSIChoices to try and disassociate themselves from some of her more controversial views on eugenics. |
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"Sophie Scholl. A 21 year old German student, she led non violent resistance to the Nazis at huge personal risk and was tortured and executed in 1943.
And of course Anne Frank whose diary is still a bestseller. She died in 1945 aged only 15."
Agreed... Can also add Edith Cavell who was shot in 1915 for aiding allied soldiers to escape.
Additionally the female SOE agents in WW2 who made the ultimate sacrifice including Violette Szabó, GC. & Noor Inayat Khan, GC. |
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So, we've heard about the internationally renowned...
Here's one from my local area
Ada Jane Summers (née Broome), MBE JP (1861–1944)
Ada was the first British woman to sit as a magistrate, and one of the first women in England to become a Justice of the Peace.
Ada was also the first female councillor, mayor and freeman of Stalybridge near Manchester.
Ada was also a philanthropist.
Ada was born in Oldham in 1861, where her father George Broome owned a textile mill.
In 1881, she married John Summers JP, of the John Summers & Sons steelworks.
His family owned the Globe Ironworks in Stalybridge.
They had at least one son, Gerald Summers (1885-1969), who became a painter.
Her husband died in 1910.
Ada was elected as a Liberal Party councillor in Stalybridge in 1912.
She was then elected mayor in November 1919, and served until 1921.
At this time women still did not have the vote in Britain.
As Mayor of Stalybridge, she was ex officio a Justice of the Peace, and was sworn in as the first female Justice of the Peace in England on 31 December 1919, one week after the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919 came into force.
In October 1920 she was appointed a Justice of the Peace in the borough in her own right, again the first woman in Britain to do so.
Ada was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire in 1918, and became an honorary Freeman of the borough in 1939.
Summers used the wealth inherited from her husband to pursue philanthropic aims, including funding a maternity and child welfare centre, and an employment centre in Stalybridge, the Ladies Work Society.
She set up a nurses' home in 1926.
At Christmas she would give presents to local children, and she paid for a Christmas tree.
She served as president of Stalybridge Mechanics Institute from 1926 until 1936.
She founded a boys club in January 1929, which became known as "Mrs Summers Boy's Club".
She was president of the Stalybridge branch of the British and Foreign Bible Society.
She was also involved with and the Police Court Mission.
After her death, she was described (without irony) as "Lady Bountiful". |
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Bussy - good idea!
We have Hilary Devey from round here.
From Wiki:
Devey made her fortune launching Pall-Ex, a palletised freight network. Launched in 1996, Pall-Ex was the third palletised goods distribution network to be launched in the UK. It was based on the well-established hub and spoke express parcels distribution model - this form of pallet network was pioneered by Palletline in 1992. Pall-Ex handles around 8,000 palletised consignments through its Leicestershire hub each day, has over 90 network members and has annual revenues of £59.947 million.
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"Marie Stopes I feel is often overlooked as an inspirational woman but her advocacy of birth control and sex education has been a game changer for women around the world.
There's a good recent podcast on her, I know it was a hundred years ago but some of her views are very problematic by our standards.
It is an interesting choice ... certainly her advocacy for birth control and sex education was a great boon in giving women choice.
It is also however interesting how even the clinic in her name has chosen to rename to MSIChoices to try and disassociate themselves from some of her more controversial views on eugenics."
Oh I agree she is controversial but she helped Change the attitudes towards women's reproductive choices none the less. |
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"Marie Stopes I feel is often overlooked as an inspirational woman but her advocacy of birth control and sex education has been a game changer for women around the world.
There's a good recent podcast on her, I know it was a hundred years ago but some of her views are very problematic by our standards.
It is an interesting choice ... certainly her advocacy for birth control and sex education was a great boon in giving women choice.
It is also however interesting how even the clinic in her name has chosen to rename to MSIChoices to try and disassociate themselves from some of her more controversial views on eugenics.
Oh I agree she is controversial but she helped Change the attitudes towards women's reproductive choices none the less. "
I do concur |
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Emily Williamson and Eliza Philips...over 125 years ago thanks to their courage and determination the RSPB was formed  and it is the UK'S largest nature and wildlife conservation charity in Europe. |
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"Mary Seacoal
Determined Self funded nurse who strived and succeed in saving countless soldiers in the crimean war.
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I came on to post about Mary Seacole. Good choice |
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Here’s a shout out to all women who raised sons who truly believe in gender equality.
“Wisdom is found at the feet of a mother”. Bedouin saying.
“The condition of women in a nation is the real measure of its progress.”
Ngugi wa Thiong'o, |
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"Some women have changed bits and pieces but I don’t think any have changed the whole world.
To balance it up I don’t think any men have either tbh. "
It's the bits and pieces that matter |
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"Carol Ann Duffy - the first female Poet Laureate. Studied by uneager students up and down the country who resignedly read her poetry. Revisiting them shows how powerful and moving her words are.
George Eliot - adopted a pseudonym to avoid being lumped in with other female authors of that time. Brilliant studies of life in rural England.
Mary Shelley - Frankenstein's influence can still be read in much modern science fiction today. Probably the best Gothic novel of all time.
Angela Carter - Her Bloody Chambers was and still is a groundbreaking retelling of fairytales in a world where even the stories depict the women as hapless heroines waiting to be rescued.
There are so many more inspirational writers - Maya Angelou's poetic yet powerful texts, Jane Austen's witty, satires, Ursula Le Guin's amazing science fiction, Virgina Woolf's pitch perfect musings on mental health, love, motivation... those are the women who inspire me because their words gave and still give me much needed escapism. They harness the power of language, create complex universes and write of universal emotions we all recognise and have felt."
So much this |
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"Sophie Scholl. A 21 year old German student, she led non violent resistance to the Nazis at huge personal risk and was tortured and executed in 1943.
And of course Anne Frank whose diary is still a bestseller. She died in 1945 aged only 15."
That diary made a strong impression on me when I read it as a teenager by chance. It wasn't in our school program but available in the library. |
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My icons, all in different but equally significant ways:
Mae West - an established Vaudeville star she made her Hollywood debut around her thirties, did it on her own terms, wrote her own dialogue and suffered occasional arrests for "offending" public decency.
Marilyn Monroe - a beacon of heart-stopping light who dreamed the hardest. She kept dreaming and kept striving, all the while taking a stand about things that mattered and fighting the exploitative studio system, blazing the path or others.
Dita Von Teese - a living legend, a woman who not only made herself into who she wanted to be but who also single-handedly revived a whole industry. She took one look at her first striptease joint, saw how different she was from everyone else and decided that it was a great opportunity.
There is so much to add about these amazing women but that would turn into an essay |
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"Sophie Scholl. A 21 year old German student, she led non violent resistance to the Nazis at huge personal risk and was tortured and executed in 1943.
And of course Anne Frank whose diary is still a bestseller. She died in 1945 aged only 15.
That diary made a strong impression on me when I read it as a teenager by chance. It wasn't in our school program but available in the library. "
Have you ever been to the Frank house/museum in Amsterdam? Very recommend if not, haunting but fascinating. |
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"Sophie Scholl. A 21 year old German student, she led non violent resistance to the Nazis at huge personal risk and was tortured and executed in 1943.
And of course Anne Frank whose diary is still a bestseller. She died in 1945 aged only 15.
That diary made a strong impression on me when I read it as a teenager by chance. It wasn't in our school program but available in the library.
Have you ever been to the Frank house/museum in Amsterdam? Very recommend if not, haunting but fascinating."
Indeed not, I have never been to Amsterdam for a visit. |
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"Sophie Scholl. A 21 year old German student, she led non violent resistance to the Nazis at huge personal risk and was tortured and executed in 1943.
And of course Anne Frank whose diary is still a bestseller. She died in 1945 aged only 15.
That diary made a strong impression on me when I read it as a teenager by chance. It wasn't in our school program but available in the library.
Have you ever been to the Frank house/museum in Amsterdam? Very recommend if not, haunting but fascinating.
Indeed not, I have never been to Amsterdam for a visit. "
I wasn’t sure about going, and having the house as a tourist spot, but it is very well preserved with an excellent museum.
Btw Mae West is one of my heroes. She’s a little forgotten now but was a real pioneer for women in comedy and being more sexually open, which as you wrote got her arrested and jailed. |
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"Some women have changed bits and pieces but I don’t think any have changed the whole world.
To balance it up I don’t think any men have either tbh. "
Oh do come along
Michaelangelo, Mozart, Faraday, Boulton, Whittle, Watt, Flowers, Berners-Lee, Einstein....
Shaped the world |
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"Here’s a shout out to all women who raised sons who truly believe in gender equality.
“Wisdom is found at the feet of a mother”. Bedouin saying.
“The condition of women in a nation is the real measure of its progress.”
Ngugi wa Thiong'o,"
Absolutely adore how my son has turned out |
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"Some women have changed bits and pieces but I don’t think any have changed the whole world.
To balance it up I don’t think any men have either tbh.
Oh do come along
Michaelangelo, Mozart, Faraday, Boulton, Whittle, Watt, Flowers, Berners-Lee, Einstein....
Shaped the world"
See further up my list of female scientists throughout the eras, all revolutionary. |
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"Some women have changed bits and pieces but I don’t think any have changed the whole world.
To balance it up I don’t think any men have either tbh.
Oh do come along
Michaelangelo, Mozart, Faraday, Boulton, Whittle, Watt, Flowers, Berners-Lee, Einstein....
Shaped the world
See further up my list of female scientists throughout the eras, all revolutionary."
I was the first to name Ada Lovelace at the beginning of this thread |
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"Thatcher.
Country is where it is because of what she did."
i know alot of people hate her politics but really its hard not to have some admiration for our first female prime minister
i thought it was very sad when people celebrated her death - she still had a grieving family |
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"Some women have changed bits and pieces but I don’t think any have changed the whole world.
To balance it up I don’t think any men have either tbh.
Oh do come along
Michaelangelo, Mozart, Faraday, Boulton, Whittle, Watt, Flowers, Berners-Lee, Einstein....
Shaped the world
See further up my list of female scientists throughout the eras, all revolutionary.
I was the first to name Ada Lovelace at the beginning of this thread "
Splendid stuff |
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"Pamela Anderson for her contribution to womens bodies.
Before she arrived implants were not pushed forward so willingly into the faces of a mainstream audience or that large(ly) seen.
Except maybe Dollys?"
i would definitely stick dolly on a list of women that changed the world- she is fantastic - put a ton of her own money into research for covid vaccine
another that people might think trivial but her legacy has changed people - Jade Goody
i think she changed reality tv forever and hopefully inspired many a woman to get a smear |
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Rachel court...my inspiration.
Survived being shot.wrote a book
"The devil at home".. making a stand and a voice against domestic abuse.
Empowering victims.
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"Sophie Scholl. A 21 year old German student, she led non violent resistance to the Nazis at huge personal risk and was tortured and executed in 1943.
And of course Anne Frank whose diary is still a bestseller. She died in 1945 aged only 15.
That diary made a strong impression on me when I read it as a teenager by chance. It wasn't in our school program but available in the library.
Have you ever been to the Frank house/museum in Amsterdam? Very recommend if not, haunting but fascinating.
Indeed not, I have never been to Amsterdam for a visit.
I wasn’t sure about going, and having the house as a tourist spot, but it is very well preserved with an excellent museum.
Btw Mae West is one of my heroes. She’s a little forgotten now but was a real pioneer for women in comedy and being more sexually open, which as you wrote got her arrested and jailed."
That scene from My Little Chickadee were she is teaching a bunch of overgrown lads in a schoolroom is priceless. "Two plus two equals four and five will get you a ten if you know how to work it. Anyway, it all evens out in the end" 
I keep meaning to update my status as "A guy what takes his time, I'll go for any time"
Marilyn Monroe means so much to me that despite being an adult I can forger that too easily. I had a heated argument with someone who started to criticise her body and I just saw red. It was a very small gathering so other people around must have felt awkward and it dawned on me at some point. I didn't speak to this person for the rest of the time and managed to say a civil goodbye with some polite nothings - but it was completely insincere. There is no chance in hell I would play with him at some party in the future - disrespect Marilyn Monroe and you're dead to me! |
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Ann Summers: Brought sex products to the masses. But her lingerie though, is utter tat imho.
Linda Lovelace: When a guy says to any lady. I want/expect you to deep throat me. But struggles to carry out a lateral flow test himself. Such hypocrisy.
Francoise Pascal: The first lady I ever fancied rotten, when I was a lad, growing up. |
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Looking at this list of names with interest, lots of singers, actresses, models, writers and sportswomen did any of these actually change the world as in the way for instance Florence Nightingale did the health system was changed because of her and still runs on alot of her principals.
So she has helped millions of people live longer and healthier therefore she definitely changed the world |
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"Looking at this list of names with interest, lots of singers, actresses, models, writers and sportswomen did any of these actually change the world as in the way for instance Florence Nightingale did the health system was changed because of her and still runs on alot of her principals.
So she has helped millions of people live longer and healthier therefore she definitely changed the world "
changing the attitudes of people also changes the world - you dont have to be in science or medicine to do that |
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"Looking at this list of names with interest, lots of singers, actresses, models, writers and sportswomen did any of these actually change the world as in the way for instance Florence Nightingale did the health system was changed because of her and still runs on alot of her principals.
So she has helped millions of people live longer and healthier therefore she definitely changed the world
changing the attitudes of people also changes the world - you dont have to be in science or medicine to do that "
Also even though there has been been some amazing women mentioned And on the whole the thread has been brilliant and inspiring it does however show we do still need International women's day and we still need women that are strong and gonna change attitudes. |
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"Looking at this list of names with interest, lots of singers, actresses, models, writers and sportswomen did any of these actually change the world as in the way for instance Florence Nightingale did the health system was changed because of her and still runs on alot of her principals.
So she has helped millions of people live longer and healthier therefore she definitely changed the world
changing the attitudes of people also changes the world - you dont have to be in science or medicine to do that
Also even though there has been been some amazing women mentioned And on the whole the thread has been brilliant and inspiring it does however show we do still need International women's day and we still need women that are strong and gonna change attitudes. "
What would Jesus do? We used to ask
Occasionally lose his shit and flip tables |
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This thread is obviously about the amazing women who change the world. And all of them truly are amazing, but for me, it's the people and women that don't change the world, smaller cogs that change a person, themselves or a situation for the better. Oft forgotten and unnoticed but if you are her, even when others don't notice, clap yourself on the back and smile because you know you've made a difference xx |
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"This thread is obviously about the amazing women who change the world. And all of them truly are amazing, but for me, it's the people and women that don't change the world, smaller cogs that change a person, themselves or a situation for the better. Oft forgotten and unnoticed but if you are her, even when others don't notice, clap yourself on the back and smile because you know you've made a difference xx"
I love this. |
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"Looking at this list of names with interest, lots of singers, actresses, models, writers and sportswomen did any of these actually change the world as in the way for instance Florence Nightingale did the health system was changed because of her and still runs on alot of her principals.
So she has helped millions of people live longer and healthier therefore she definitely changed the world
changing the attitudes of people also changes the world - you dont have to be in science or medicine to do that
Also even though there has been been some amazing women mentioned And on the whole the thread has been brilliant and inspiring it does however show we do still need International women's day and we still need women that are strong and gonna change attitudes.
What would Jesus do? We used to ask
Occasionally lose his shit and flip tables "
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"This thread is obviously about the amazing women who change the world. And all of them truly are amazing, but for me, it's the people and women that don't change the world, smaller cogs that change a person, themselves or a situation for the better. Oft forgotten and unnoticed but if you are her, even when others don't notice, clap yourself on the back and smile because you know you've made a difference xx"
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"Looking at this list of names with interest, lots of singers, actresses, models, writers and sportswomen did any of these actually change the world as in the way for instance Florence Nightingale did the health system was changed because of her and still runs on alot of her principals.
So she has helped millions of people live longer and healthier therefore she definitely changed the world
changing the attitudes of people also changes the world - you dont have to be in science or medicine to do that "
This is true a good example of that is Emily Pankhurst |
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My vote goes to ALL of the women who invented so many things that we use today but because of property laws, had to register them in their husbands names......
Invisible for ever.... Thanks Women of Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Mathematics x x |
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