Pick any famous female person in any occupation or belief system that you think is quotable and is a good role model for either men or women...who can be equally admired by both. And tell me why. For example, Princess Diana fought to have mines removed all over the world, so in that way could be equally admired by men and women who don't believe in land mines (or who want old land mines removed).
2007-07-11 08:42:20 · 11 answers · asked by ? 4 in Social Science ➔ Gender Studies
This is an excellent question and look forward to hearing about other wonderful role models who are women! I hope your will understand and forgive me. It seemed too daunting, incomplete to pick a single individual.
1. Aung San Suu Kyi, Activist, 1991 Nobel Peace Prize
"Fearlessness may be a gift but perhaps more precious is the courage acquired through endeavor, courage that comes from cultivating the habit of refusing to let fear dictate one's actions..."
2. Toni Morrison, Writer, 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature
"[If I were to give a last lecture, I'd talk about]...How hard it is...how necessary it is for us to become and remain Humans. That means a lot. It means not giving in to the comic book version of who we are. Not giving in to all this Medieval rhetoric. It means not doing that. We know deep down what's right. And what's true. And what's needed. We gotta get there. We just have to."
3. Emily Dickinson, Writer
"Honors taste dry...[and] Flags vex a dying face. But the least fan, stirred by a friend's hand, cools like the rain."
AND
"If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain:
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again..."
4. Marian Wright Edelman, Activist
"Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it."
5. Maya Angelou, Writer
..."We, this people...Created on this earth, of this earth
Have the power to fashion for this earth a climate where every man and every woman
Can live freely without sanctimonious piety and without crippling fear
"When we come to it,
We must confess that we are the possible...miraculous...true wonders of this world
That is when, and only when we come to it...
2007-07-11 09:55:01 · answer #1 · answered by writerdude_77 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
"Only when manhood is dead, and it will perish when ravished femininity no longer sustains it, only then will we know what it is to be free"
Andrea Dworkin
She campaigned fearlessly and passionatly and she dared to say things that no one wanted to hear. I think she was brave and beautiful and so very misunderstood. She wanted an equal world for women and even though she was often hated by the public media she carried on and proclaimed her love of men. She has truely inspired my life and I hope one day she will be recognised for the social revolutionist she could have been.
2007-07-11 12:08:24 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
A woman is the full circle. Within her is the power to create, nurture and transform. A woman knows that nothing can come to fruition without light. Let us call upon woman's voice and woman's heart to guide us in this age of planetary transformation.
Diane Mariechild
2007-07-11 10:31:57 · answer #3 · answered by gone 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
"We all expected the world to be different than it is, didn't we? No matter what material or emotional deprivation we have experienced as children or as adults, not matter what we understood from history or from the testimonies of living persons about how people suffer and why, we all believed, however privately in human possibility. Some of us believed in art, or literature, or music, or religion, or revolution, or in children, or in the redeeming potential of eroticism or affection. No matter what we knew of cruelty, we all believed in kindness; and no matter what we knew of hatred, we all believed in friendship or love"
Andrea Dworkin
Pornography and Grief
From Take Back The Night.
2007-07-12 04:56:58 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yea! I hate celebs they get into everything and think people should follow their lead. If your a celeb: I don't care who your backing for office. I don't care who your sleeping with this week. I don't care - Just do your job - entertain me and shut up!! I think Johnny Deep is sexy in the movies but I don't care what he does other wise - as long as he doesn't try to change my life to his point of view.
2016-05-19 21:44:24 · answer #5 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not many people have heard of her, but I admire Mellody Hobson. She runs a capital management firm in Chicago. That may not seem particularly exciting, but I admire her for putting her career first. (She is unmarried and childfree, as I intend to be.)
2007-07-11 09:57:12 · answer #6 · answered by Rio Madeira 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Eleanor Roosevelt.
A woman is like a tea bag- you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water.
Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
And Maya Angelou
The needs of society determine its ethics.
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
I've learned that people will forget what you say, they will forget what you do, but people will always remember how you made them feel.
2007-07-11 09:09:57 · answer #7 · answered by not yet 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
" if I cant dance, then its not my revolution" -Emma Goldman. She was an activist in the early 1900's for workers rights, particularly immigrant workers, a staunch communist and feminist. She was responsible for more than one large work-stoppage strike in the north-eastern US. She was eventually deported.
2007-07-11 09:54:07 · answer #8 · answered by bluestareyed 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Sandra Day O'Connor - smart, compassionate, well-spoken, and a former SAHM. I think she's fantastic.
2007-07-11 08:50:38 · answer #9 · answered by Junie 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Sandra Day O'Connor.
But I don't quote her or her decisions.
2007-07-11 08:49:36 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋