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Great list.
Alice Walker also springs to mind, if she hasn't already been mentioned.
John Stuart Mill.
Odette Hallowes
Lilian Rolfe
Denise Bloch
Violette Szabo
Noor Inayat Khan
Yvonne Cormeau
and
all the heroines of the S.O.E. "F" section.
Corrie and Betsie Ten Boom
I have two words for you - WATCH IT. If you're interested in her story this film was made following the actual records of the police interrogations, and from interviews with people who knew her. It's very close to reality, and it's simply chilling. It's an excellent film anyway.
I may buy that next payday
But he's not a woman!
:chin:
This is true. But in any event, I think he was one of the first politicians in Britain to put forward that women should vote, which was pretty radical in his time. So, I'm putting him forward as a feminist.
One of the greatest heroes of the modern world - no mention of significant people of the modern age should be without mention of Harriet Tubman.
A slave who escaped slavery who freed over 300 other slaves, there's no way to even imagine the life she lead and the freedom she brought.
'Tubman returned to the South again and again. She devised clever techniques that helped make her "forays" successful, including using the master's horse and buggy for the first leg of the journey; leaving on a Saturday night, since runaway notices couldn't be placed in newspapers until Monday morning; turning about and heading south if she encountered possible slave hunters; and carrying a drug to use on a baby if its crying might put the fugitives in danger. Tubman even carried a gun which she used to threaten the fugitives if they became too tired or decided to turn back, telling them, "You'll be free or die."
By 1856, Tubman's capture would have brought a $40,000 reward from the South. On one occasion, she overheard some men reading her wanted poster, which stated that she was illiterate. She promptly pulled out a book and feigned reading it. The ploy was enough to fool the men.
Tubman had made the perilous trip to slave country 19 times by 1860, including one especially challenging journey in which she rescued her 70-year-old parents. Of the famed heroine, who became known as "Moses," Frederick Douglass said, "Excepting John Brown -- of sacred memory -- I know of no one who has willingly encountered more perils and hardships to serve our enslaved people than [Harriet Tubman]."
And John Brown, who conferred with "General Tubman" about his plans to raid Harpers Ferry, once said that she was "one of the bravest persons on this continent."
Fuck asll service.
pm me
In Russia there is. It's called 'Day of the Defenders of the Motherland'. Women's Day is a really big deal in Russia as is Men's Day.
I can see her face but I'll be fucked if I can remember her name
Yeah it's
Jan 1-31
Feb 1-28
Mar 1-7 & 9-31
Apr 1-30
May 1-31
Jun 1-30
Jul 1-31
Aug 1-31
Sep 1-30
Oct 1-31
Nov 1-30
Dec 1-31
Anyway I want to mention (And I feel relaly bad cause I can't hink of her name at the moment. Too early in the day!) the coloured lady who sat down in the white section of the bus in South Africa. :thumb:
Don't you mean in North America? Because that would be Rosa Parks.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=bw0bFRFklwk
http://youtube.com/watch?v=pCLVs2FuPCA
Yeah. Your right. My bad. I was on MSN to my mate in South Africa whilst I was posting and, well, you seen the outcome!
Who was mentioned in the very first post
Penny Flame
Katie Morgan
Briana Banks
Jenna Haze
Bree Olson
Alison Angel
Jordan Capri
Ginger Lynn
Nikki Benz
(don't google these names at work unless you have a very liberal policy on nudity