Three women you admire, GO!

[octafish]

Elizabeth I
Eleanor Roosevelt
and Rosa Parks

With a special shout out to Henrietta Dugdale, Vida Goldstein and Annie Lowe who were Australia's first organised suffragettes.

 

[BlumiereBleck]

Lets seee.....Nancy Reagen. uhhhhhh........mummy! and the girlies

 

[MaxwellEdison]

Emma Goldman

Siouxsie Sioux

Eleanor Roosevelt

Easy.

 

[CrazyCapnMorgan]

Samus Aran

Jean (LUNAR 2: Eternal Blue)

Cecilia Adelhyde (Wild ARMs 1)

These girls RAWK! Also, Lisa Foiles deserves an honorable mention. Come back soon, Lisa!

 

[cbert]

Wangari Maathai
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wangari_Maathai

Sarah Sze
http://www.sarahsze.com/

Swoon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swoon_(artist)

Sarah Kay
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuAbGJBvIVY

Kaija Saariaho
http://www.saariaho.org/

Hildegard von Bingen
ht - wait....

...how many did you ask for?

 

[thenewprince]

Oprah Winfrey, Michelle Obama, Eleanor Roosevelt


Done

 

[Vrex360]

My mother
My sister
My other sister

All of them are older than me and they all played a significant part in raising me. Hence I admire them.

As a side note for not related women:
I admire Natalie Portman because she's beautiful, intelligent and a talented actress as well as strong in certain political views of hers.

I admire Hillary Clinton for almost but not quite becoming the first female president of America and because I had to pick one female politician and lately the first female Prime Minister of Australia is starting to make people hate her.

And I admire the hell out of the girl who did a structured analysis of why our own Jim Sterling is in fact, VERY sexist: http://gomakemeasandwich.blogspot.com/2011/02/in-his-words-why-jim-sterling-is-in.html

 

[MarcFirewing]

Samus Aran
Zoey (Left 4 Dead)
Hinata Hyuuga

...I don't really know how to explain this but the top two are mostly tough and badass while the third is adorable. It's just how I roll. XD

 

[The Hero Killer]

My mother, my grandmother, and my great grand mother.

 

[mikev7.0]

Marie Curie, Eleanor Roosevelt, Amelia Earhart.

In Fiction or Mythology? Artemis, Venus, Katherine Pryde

I also can't believe I forgot to mention Rachel Maddow. Duh....

 

[artanis_neravar]

I'm trying.

Like, really trying. I can't think of one.

Maybe someone can shake something in my head loose, but as it is now I honestly can't think of any at all.

Alright, I'll make it easier for you. Just one.

That doesn't really help at all though. If I could think of one, I would have posted that one.

I've never actually witnessed, or even really heard of, any women doing anything particularly impressive or interesting.

-Women comedians aren't funny because you just end up with 80% sex jokes and 20% jokes that only women would get or care about.

-Women like Oprah only really appeal to women. Obviously there are going to be men who are into it, but they're the exception, not the rule.

-As far as making any sort of scientific progress, they're entirely absent as far as I know. I think there was *one* who had made an actual relevant discovery, but the credit was given to her, her husband, and her best friend, which tends to leave an eyebrow raised.

-Just to knock stereotypes out of the running, women are few and far between as far as professional meal preparation goes.

-lol politics. Not that there's really anything to admire there from the men either though.

What does that leave as far as my interests could *possibly* be stretched, exactly? Nothing.

Women being attractive isn't really a reason to admire them either. Yeah, it takes as much work as it does genetics, but it's not impressive.

So, I'm drawing a blank :/

What about Joan of Arc? Or are you trying to pick women from a certain time frame?

Not really looking at any specific time, though when the best source for information I have available is Wikipedia it makes it pretty pointless to try to look up stuff on someone that was dead hundreds of years before I was born.

I tried reading about her there, but in true Wikipedia fashion it's as uninteresting as possible.

Basically, she was in command of armies in a time where women were treated more like cattle than people, and crowned the king of France, which led to the unification of France, and ending the hundred years war against England.

At least, that's what I remember reading in the school history book 10 years ago, so that info may be a bit shaky.

She also believed that god talked to her personally, and the king of France pushed her further and further away until the English captured her and burned her at the stake

 

[Volkov]

Hm.

Well, my fiance, certainly. We have co-published 11 papers together, and considering her, frankly, poor education, I am extremely impressed with her ability to "learn on the job" so to speak. Also her drive; it's rare to see that type of professional dedication in someone.

My mother. For sacrifices she's made throughout the 90s, and for helping me get where I am.

3rd one is a tough one. I am trying to think of someone I'd know... drawing a blank. I don't know too many women though, not many of those in my line of work, or my social circles.

 

[blah_ducks]

Joan D' Arc- Badass is badass. She's just a freaking cool woman who saved France's ass during the Hundred's Years War

Empress Wu- Manipulative ex-concubine who pushed China's government in the right direction by making sure all of the officials were at least competent. I've always liked powerful smart women.

Ulala from Space Channel 5- Funny and spunky in a surprisingly non-pandering way. She's just an awesome character that saves innocent humans with DANCE!

 

[Venereus]

A good old friend of mine.
My GF.
My mom.

 

[Phlakes]

There's one who was in my AP Chemistry class a while back, the girl I was interested in my junior year, and the one in my sophomore year. All great people, too bad I'll never see them again.

 

[Spydercake]

No one... NO ONE Said Emma Watson? ... *puts on tinfoil wizard hat*

Well, Real world current: Emma Watson.
Fictional: Hrrmm... Pit Girl, MNC.
....crap..err...
OH, another fictional would be Caroline, Portal 2 :3

 

[NezumiiroKitsune]

Off the top of my head (sort of):

1. Rosalind Franklin

2. Marie Curie

3. Lorelei Gilmore

A third real one...

Sylvia Williams

I don't want to have to think about it too much, this list could get very convoluted.