Seeing As It's Iwd...

[tiggerblue10]

...which women, past and present, do you admire (not including family members).

Mine are:

Elizabeth I
Marie Curie
Anne Frank
Sophie Scholl
Jane Austin
Ada Lovelace
+ loads more

[retrocop]

Don't tempt me. I recall a joke along these lines. The famous ladee most admired,by an Italian, for various reasons was Saharah Pippelini.
He read in the news headlines she was laid by 300 men in two weeks.

[tiggerblue10]

Errrmmm.......not quite the response I was expecting!

[Spicerack]

Maria Sharapova.

[Bobbisox1]

Margaret thatcher ( not at the time as I always was strong Labour) but now I see the strength of the character she showed
Our present Queen for her duty to country in the face of much internal wrangling
Joanna Lumley for fighting for the rights of the Gurkhas to have a pension the same as our own brave soldiers
Anyone that’s succumbed to cancer and have shown they can beat it and not let it win......and many more

[teacake44]

Just me mom.

[Spicerack]

I would have said that^. (not your's obviously) but the OP said 'no family members.

[shoota]

Teresa May, ex-PM and Pornstar - what diversity...

[teacake44]

@13.27 I'm afraid there is just no one else, so I broke the rules. :0)

[shoota]

You're a pirate Tcake...

[-SharonA-]

Rosa Parks

[Bobbisox1]

Good one Sharon, what a brave lady

[BAKERS DOZEN]

Claudette Colvin who challenged the law before Rosa Parks took her stand.

[douglas9401]

Rachel Riley, just for being there.

[jim360]

Emmy Noether.

[teacake44]

Ok second choice. Queen Bobbs. :0) :0)

[rowanwitch]

Malala Yousefzai
Jane Goodall
Daphne Sheldrick
Alice Ball
Eleanor Roosevelt

[marval]

Anne Frank
Edith Cavell
Florence Nightingale
Malala Yousefzai

[david small]

Edna Throat.

[Prudie]

Any female airline pilot

[MartinMillar]

Any woman doing a job that is not traditionally a female role.
Duchess of Sussex