For Females on Yahoo: Whom You Most Admire As Great Women In American History?

Question

Pick top three to five.

Bullets Please,

Brief Accomplishment(s).

Not currently living.

Answer 1

Susan B. Anthony - fought tirelessly all her life to women's suffrage, although she did not live long enough to see the movement's success.

Lucretia Mott - Set up first meeting of feminists at Seneca Falls.

Amelia Earhart - tried to do the same thing that men did.  Succeeded in matching Lucky Lindy, before her tragic death.

All Moms - each in their own way.

Edit:  I want to add Minnie Vautrin - also.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnie_Vaut... - An American missionary who was in charge of the Ginling Girl's College in Nanking during WWII. While most foreigners were evacuated when the Japanese invaded, she chose to stay. She and several others, including the leader of the local n**i party, set up the college as a safe haven for civilians.

She was so distraught by the images she saw and by the harm that she could not keep from occurring that she committed suicide upon returning to the states.  Despite all the women that she saved, she was still haunted by the ones she had "failed" in her eyes.

Answer 2

Only American women?  Here are four off the top of my head (note that I'm a WWII buff):

Rear Admiral Grace Hopper - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hoppe... - one of the early pioneers in computing.  

Hedy Lamarr (naturalized American) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedy_Lamarr - a great combination of beauty and brains.  Not only did she have a successful acting career, but she developed an early version of frequency hopping.  

Virginia Hall - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Ha... - despite the fact that she had a wooden leg, she was an OSS spy who worked behind enemy lines in Vichy France during WWII.  She was the only woman awarded the Distinguished Service Cross during WWII.

Minnie Vautrin - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnie_Vaut... - An American missionary who was in charge of the Ginling Girl's College in Nanking during WWII.  While most foreigners were evacuated when the Japanese invaded, she chose to stay.  She and several others, including the leader of the local n**i party, set up the college as a safe haven for civilians.

Answer 3

1.  The female who stayed behind one winter to face certain death with those too old to keep up in nomadic times to tend to them and survived in one place long enough to make the colossal discovery that plants grow from seeds, hence gardening eras and then agriculture.

2. Eleanor Roosevelt who funded the orginal start-up of the U.N and spearheaded the greatest human rights charter in the history of our species, the U.N. Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

3.  My mother for putting up with my father for 50 years.

Answer 4

YOU SAID AMERICAN HISTORY. HERE GOES.



  MARION ANDERSON

  First African-American singer to perform with the Metropolitan Opera. An international star, Anderson was a brilliant musician whose talents helped shatter the color barrier for other African-American performers.

ETHEL PERCY ANDRUS

Founded the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) to help older Americans cope effectively in their later years. Her organization, now 36 million members strong and a political lobbying force, helps with health insurance, career assistance and discounts for senior citizens.

CLARA BARTON

Founder of the American Red Cross, Barton ministered to injured soldiers during the Civil War and became known as the "Angel of the Battlefield." Devoted to the organization, she later took to the field, providing relief in the Spanish American War at the age of 77.

There are alot more too. We do not remember that they paved the way for us.

one more

SUSAN  B. ANTHONY

The women's movement's most powerful organizer whose lifetime of dedication, and work with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, paved the way for women's right to vote. Her words "Men their rights and nothing more; women their rights and nothing less," expressed the ongoing struggle for equality.

Answer 5

The early colonial women who kept the colony going, spinning and weaving the cloth, preserving food for the winter, raising the poultry, milking the cows, making the butter and cheese, brewing the ale, nursing the sick, delivering the babies, and working in the fields when the men were short of labour.  Without them there would never have been any america.

Answer 6

wow umm that's a tall order...lot of women to admire.

here are a few of my fav's  that are less know...sure you will get plenty of the typical ones.

Aphra Behn:  She worked as a spy for king George.  Was the first paid female writer.  Wrote plays and poetry, all with a sarcastic humor and often of a sexual nature.  Not stuff that a lady of her time would do.  It is unknown if she really married or not.  Her husband (according to her) died during a plague but there is no records of such a man to begin with.  Many believe that he was made up.  Quote saying that "if writing is a masculine job, I can not denied my male nature"  Interesting woman all the way around.

Jennie Hodgers from Ireland, played stow away on a ship to the US to escape an arranged marriage.  Enlist as "Albert Cashier"  in the Illinois infantry fought during the civil war.  "Cashier" is noted for being likable, shy and "extraordinary brave" by "his" superior officers. Afterward she continued living as a man to be able to get her vet's benefits.   She wasn't found out till years later, she fell from a spooked horse giving herself a concussion/knocked herself out and broke a leg.  The doc of course..noticed things weren't right, she did manage to talk him into be quiet about it all.

Hypatia live in the roman Egypt.  She was a well know Neoplatonist philosopher.  Taught philosophy and astronomy, is noted for "valiant defender of science against religion"  

She map many of the constellations we still know today and invented they hydrometer. Her death marked the end of the Hellenistic Age, she was killed by a mob of christens.

Edit: oops now I see the american....shrug...I'm leaving them.