Magnificent Women...

[Vermilion]

Watching a programme - 12 books that changed the world - and they're talking about Marie Stopes and her book, Married Love. I think she was magnificent and thoroughly agree with her book being included. I was just wondering who you think was a magnificent woman - or man, if there is one who particularly stands out for you, though it is more common for men's achievments to be recognised.
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[R. Richard]

Oh Wicked Wanda is my nomination!

 

[rgraham666]

For women, Elisabeth of Hungary, who as my favourite authour put it was, "(one of) the most famous of the twelfth-century activists, calling for an interpretation of Christian faith as one based on the recognition of the other and, therefore, on a form of responsible individualism."

For men, who else but Thomas Jefferson?

 

[Liar]

Vera Rubin who discovered Dark Matter in the universe, and whom they (the male dominated Noble Prize committee) refuse to recognize.

Wasn't that mainly because she didn't do her discoveries as a scientists but while being a lab assist or something like that? I remember seeing a documentary saying something along those lines. Which of course doesn't excuse the Nobel comittee, the elististic pricks.

I'd like to nominate:
Aspasia, major influence for the western school of thinking. Up there with Aristoteles, Thomas Aquinos and the rest of the lads, but whose importanced has been greatly downplayed for two millennia due to the lack of a scrotum.

 

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