admirable women

[Jehan]

I had open a similar thread but he probably died in the crash. Let's open a new one to talk about admirable women, present, past or futur.

[Aëlwenn]

Me.

[Bezprym]

Admirable in what context?

[Albobalboa]

Shote Galica

http://www.gazeta-shqip.com/lajme/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Shote-Galica-1.jpg

"In July 1924 she took part in the struggle for Drenica (Arbania e Vogël, Little Albania). In July 1925 after the death of her husband Azem Galica, she continued to fight and lead Kosovar-Albanian warriors. Along with hundreds of fighters from the former Kosovo Vilayet in December 1924, interventionist armies fought against Royal Yugoslav forces. She lost 22 of her family members in combat at the hands of the national security forces." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shote_Galica

[Albobalboa]

There's really too many to count though, thought about posting Marie Curie as well but she's too well known...

[Era]

I had open a similar thread but he probably died in the crash. Let's open a new one to talk about admirable women, present, past or futur.

She*

[Jehan]

Admirable in what context?

All context, every women who bring something to humanity.




There's really too many to count though, thought about posting Marie Curie as well but she's too well known...

She is a good exemple I plan to make a post about her.




She*

A thread is a she?

[Albobalboa]

Here's another many might not have heard of. All these women qualify as wifey-material imo.

During the Souliote War in December 1803, the Souliotes began evacuating Souli after their defeat by the forces of the local Ottoman-Albanian ruler, Ali Pasha. During the evacuation, a small group of Souliot women and their children were trapped by Ali's troops in the mountains of Zalongo in Epirus. In order to avoid capture and enslavement, the women threw their children first and then themselves off a steep cliff, committing suicide. According to the legend, they jumped down the precipice one after the other while singing and dancing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dance_of_Zalongo

Ali Pasha that cheeky little bastard :D

[Era]

A thread is a she?

It's not a he for sure ;)

[Jehan]

Joan of Arc


https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/39/Joan_of_arc_miniature_graded.jpg


Joan of Arc (1412-1431) is considered a French heroine and Roman Catholic saint. Born in obscurity to a peasant family, she travelled to the uncrowned Dauphin of France, advising him to reclaim his French throne and defeat the English. Joan of Arc was sent alongside French troops at the siege of Orleans and rose to prominence after the siege was lifted after nine days. She was later captured and burned at the stake for heresy. However, as she predicted, seven years after her death, France was reunited with the English defeated and Charles crowned King

[Jehan]

Laskarina Bouboulina


Laskarina Bouboulina(11 May 1771 – 22 May 1825) was a Greek naval commander, heroine of the Greek War of Independence in 1821, and an Admiral of the Imperial Russian Navy.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/06/Bouboulina_Friedel_engraving_1827.jpg?uselang=fr

Bouboulina was born in a prison in Constantinople; she originated from the Arvanite community of the island of Hydra. She was the daughter of Stavrianos Pinotsis, a captain from Hydra island, and his wife Skevo. The Ottomans had imprisoned Pinotsis for his part in the failed Orlof Revolution of 1769–1770 against the Ottoman rule. During one of her mothers visits she was born. Her father died soon afterward and the mother and child returned to Hydra...



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laskarina_Bouboulina

[Bezprym]

All context, every women who bring something to humanity.

Focusing on the past is more proper then.

Maria Curie is already mentioned, Joan d'Arc as well. Someone will probably tell something about Boudica.

From Poland I can mention:

Emilia Bloer-Plater (commonly known as Emilia Plater)

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Emila_Plater_conducting_Polish_scythemen_in_1831.j pg/607px-Emila_Plater_conducting_Polish_scythemen_in_1831.j pg

She was a count's daughter and captain of the Polish Army during November Uprising. Obviously men in the army were rather cautious about young girl joining their company, but eventually she made it. Basically she was fighting and leading her units to fight against Russian occupants in that uprising, eventually she died because of fever or other illness at age of 25.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emilia_Plater

[Magnolia]

Lou Andreas-Salomé
The woman who charmed Nietzsche, Freud and Rilke…
http://uncoy.com/images/2013/06/Lou-Salome-portrait.jpg

Psychoanalyst, writer, Nietzsche’s student, Freud’s close friend, Rilke’s muse, free, unknown.

Born in St. Petersburg, Lou Andreas Salomé (1861-1937) was a writer, thinker and psychoanalyst who figured in the most prominent intellectual circles of late 19th century Europe. Despite engaging with the most privileged minds of the time, today she is virtually unknown ––a fact that forces us to question the validity of fame.

The daughter of a Russian general who worked at the service of the Romanov family, at the age of seventeen she met her first mentor, Henrik Gillot, tutor of the Zar’s children, who would initiate her in theology and French and German literature. Gillot, married and with children, soon fell in love with Lou and asked for her hand in marriage; she rejected him.

In 1880, Lou travelled to Zurich with her mother. There she studied Dogmatic Theology and History of Religion in the University of Zurich. Two years later she moved to Rome where she met Paul Rée (who would be her lover for some time) and Friedrich Nietzsche ––with them she would establish an intellectually overwhelming threesome. Her travels and studies continued, until in 1887 she would meet the man she would marry: Carl Friedrich Andreas. Her marriage to Andreas, which lasted until he died in 1930, was never consummated —some say he threatened to kill himself if she refused to marry him and that they always lived in separate houses. Additionally, Lou continued to have relationships with other men for the rest of her life.

By writing articles and books, Salome would maintain and economic independence from her husband. She was the first person to publish studies about Nietzsche’s work, six years before the philosopher’s death ––who at some point fell in love with her and asked her to marry him; proposal she would once again reject. Some scholars believe that it was during this phase and under the influence of disenchantment that Nietzsche would write Thus Spoke Zarathustra.

In 1897, already married to Andreas, Lou met writer Rainer Maria Rilke, with whom she would keep a romantic relationship for many years. The young poet, fifteen years younger than her, instantly fell in love with Lou, who at first rejected him. After some time and due to Rilke’s insistence, she agreed to have a relationship with him, which always oscillated between love, friendship, admiration, platonic love and an incredibly profound creative relationship. Proof of their prolonged and intense relationship is their love letters, which still survive. Among other things, she taught Russian to Rilke, so he could read Tolstoy and Pushkin.

In 1902, after Paul Rée’s suicide, Salome entered a profound crisis that she would overcome with the help of Viennese doctor Friedrich Pineles. She would have a romantic affair with him that would lead her to have a voluntary abortion.

In 1911 she met Sigmund Freud and immediately became hooked on psychoanalysis, being the only female to be accepted in the Vienna Psychoanalytic Circle. For the rest of their lives they would maintain a friendly relationship based on deep respect and love. She began giving psychoanalytic therapy in the German city of Gotinga.

Lou Andreas Salome died in 1937 at the age of 76 due to renal failure. Her thought combined Freudian psychoanalysis with Nietzsche’s philosophy, and her studies were based, mainly, on narcissism and female sexuality.

This is a woman who lived her life with extreme freedom, beyond what was common at the time; she was an icon for the free woman of the 20th century. Regardless of the fact that she would strangely remain in the somber region of historical memory, what is true is that some of the fundamental men of the last one hundred years sighed more than once for her.


She is my hero.

[Albobalboa]

Lou Andreas-Salomé
The woman who charmed Nietzsche, Freud and Rilke…
http://uncoy.com/images/2013/06/Lou-Salome-portrait.jpg

Psychoanalyst, writer, Nietzsche’s student, Freud’s close friend, Rilke’s muse, free, unknown.

Born in St. Petersburg, Lou Andreas Salomé (1861-1937) was a writer, thinker and psychoanalyst who figured in the most prominent intellectual circles of late 19th century Europe. Despite engaging with the most privileged minds of the time, today she is virtually unknown ––a fact that forces us to question the validity of fame.

The daughter of a Russian general who worked at the service of the Romanov family, at the age of seventeen she met her first mentor, Henrik Gillot, tutor of the Zar’s children, who would initiate her in theology and French and German literature. Gillot, married and with children, soon fell in love with Lou and asked for her hand in marriage; she rejected him.

In 1880, Lou travelled to Zurich with her mother. There she studied Dogmatic Theology and History of Religion in the University of Zurich. Two years later she moved to Rome where she met Paul Rée (who would be her lover for some time) and Friedrich Nietzsche ––with them she would establish an intellectually overwhelming threesome. Her travels and studies continued, until in 1887 she would meet the man she would marry: Carl Friedrich Andreas. Her marriage to Andreas, which lasted until he died in 1930, was never consummated —some say he threatened to kill himself if she refused to marry him and that they always lived in separate houses. Additionally, Lou continued to have relationships with other men for the rest of her life.

By writing articles and books, Salome would maintain and economic independence from her husband. She was the first person to publish studies about Nietzsche’s work, six years before the philosopher’s death ––who at some point fell in love with her and asked her to marry him; proposal she would once again reject. Some scholars believe that it was during this phase and under the influence of disenchantment that Nietzsche would write Thus Spoke Zarathustra.

In 1897, already married to Andreas, Lou met writer Rainer Maria Rilke, with whom she would keep a romantic relationship for many years. The young poet, fifteen years younger than her, instantly fell in love with Lou, who at first rejected him. After some time and due to Rilke’s insistence, she agreed to have a relationship with him, which always oscillated between love, friendship, admiration, platonic love and an incredibly profound creative relationship. Proof of their prolonged and intense relationship is their love letters, which still survive. Among other things, she taught Russian to Rilke, so he could read Tolstoy and Pushkin.

In 1902, after Paul Rée’s suicide, Salome entered a profound crisis that she would overcome with the help of Viennese doctor Friedrich Pineles. She would have a romantic affair with him that would lead her to have a voluntary abortion.

In 1911 she met Sigmund Freud and immediately became hooked on psychoanalysis, being the only female to be accepted in the Vienna Psychoanalytic Circle. For the rest of their lives they would maintain a friendly relationship based on deep respect and love. She began giving psychoanalytic therapy in the German city of Gotinga.

Lou Andreas Salome died in 1937 at the age of 76 due to renal failure. Her thought combined Freudian psychoanalysis with Nietzsche’s philosophy, and her studies were based, mainly, on narcissism and female sexuality.

This is a woman who lived her life with extreme freedom, beyond what was common at the time; she was an icon for the free woman of the 20th century. Regardless of the fact that she would strangely remain in the somber region of historical memory, what is true is that some of the fundamental men of the last one hundred years sighed more than once for her.


She is my hero.

Admirable thot.

[Linebacker]

Ronda Rousey

http://imgc.allpostersimages.com/images/P-473-488-90/76/7697/NWI1300Z/posters/ian-spanier-the-ultimate-fighter-ronda-rousey.jpg

[Poise n Pen]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diana_Mitford

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a4/Diana_Mitford_Photo.jpg

[Magnolia]

Admirable thot.
Come on. She was a virgin till 36...

[Albobalboa]

Come on. She was a virgin till 36...

She fucked her way up the social ladder, like a modern day feminist type. "Strong free woman". Plus I doubt that statement as it goes against what is said in the text. So she met her lover in 1880, at the age of 19, but wouldn't have sex until 36? Stop it, the thotness has spoken for itself.

[Bezprym]

Come on. She was a virgin till 36...

She was a tease, apparently.

[Laberia]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tringe_Smajli

Tringë Smajl Martini Ivezaj (1880–1917), known simply as Tringe Smajli, and as Yanitza outside Albania, was an Albanian guerrilla fighter who fought against the Ottoman Empire in the Malësia region. She was the daughter of Smajl Martini, a Catholic clan leader of the Grudë tribe of Malësia.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0d/Tringa_Ivezaj.jpg

Family

She was born in 1880.[1] Her father Smajl Martini was a Catholic clan leader of the Grudë tribe (located in southeastern Montenegro).[2] His signature shows up in the protest-petitions of northern Albanian tribes sent to European ambassadors and counsels accredited in the Ottoman Empire, i.e. the one of May 9, 1878 sent to French Ambassador in Istanbul, or the one of June 15, 1878. The petitions expressed the dismay and disapproval of the Albanian tribes to the decisions of the Treaty of San Stefano and Congress of Berlin, which had granted much of the Scutari Vilayet to the Principality of Montenegro.[3] She became very active during the League of Prizren, joining the rebels until the organization's end; she was later arrested in 1886, and imprisoned in Anatolia, from where she did never return. In addition, Smajl's two sons, Gjon and Zef, Tringe's brothers, also joined the League and were killed in battle in 1883.[3]
History

At the time of her brother's deaths, Tringe became a sworn virgin – she took a vow of chastity and wore male clothing in order to live as a man in the patriarchal northern Albanian society.
Tringe joined the rebels and distinguished herself in the Battle of Deçiq.[3] She participated in the Gërçe Memorandum, on June 23, 1911. Her rebel activity continued after the Albanian Declaration of Independence (28 November 1912).
She never married and never had children, as she had earlier taken the vow. She died in November 2, 1917, and was buried at the family burial grounds in the Gruda mountains within the village of Kshevë, in today's Montenegro. Two years later, the Montenegrin army (part of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes) destroyed her grave while raiding the area.[3]
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/01/Yanitza_Martinay_-_Le_Petit_Journal.jpg
Yanitza, Albanian Joan of Arc - Illustration of 1911

Legacy

Her heroism made her famous and was recorded in epic songs of Montenegrins and Albanians. The folkloric version of her heroism tells a slightly different chain of events: Smajl Martini, the clan leader was kidnapped in 1911 in Vranje by the Ottomans, and his body was never recovered, forcing Tringe to occupy her father's place.[4] Since the Malissori uprising of 1911 was backed up by King Nikola Petrović, the epic song excluded the real story of her father death, hiding any reminiscence of the League of Prizren period, which would bring back territorial disputes between Albanians and the Kingdom of Montenegro. Ironically, the conflict between Albanians and Montenegro would be repeated shortly after. In 1911, the New York Times described Tringe Smajli as the "Albanian Joan of Arc", based on the Montenegrin version of the story which was heard somewhere in Podgorica by the Times correspondent.[4] It describes Tringe as "a beautiful young woman" in addition to her heroism.
Her legend lives on throughout the Balkans as one of the most heroic women warriors in the history of the region.[5]
Several streets in Kosovo and Albania are named after her and is regarded a People's Hero of Albania.

[Magnolia]

She fucked her way up the social ladder, like a modern day feminist type. "Strong free woman". Plus I doubt that statement as it goes against what is said in the text. So she met her lover in 1880, at the age of 19, but wouldn't have sex until 36? Stop it, the thotness has spoken for itself.

Read something more about her life, e.g. http://authorscalendar.info/salome.htm

[Albobalboa]

Read something more about her life, e.g. http://authorscalendar.info/salome.htm

"It is possible that Andreas-Salomé remained a virgin until the mid-1890s."

Even if she was a virgin until then which is extremely unlikely considering her thotness, she wouldn't have been a 36 year old virgin either way.

[Bezprym]

Another talk about virginity. :p

[Laberia]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musine_Kokalari

Musine Kokalari (February 10, 1917 Adana, Turkey – August 14, 1983) was an Albanian prose writer and politician in Albania's pre-communist period. She was the founder of the Social-Democratic Party of Albania in 1943.[1] Kokalari was the first female writer of Albania.[2] After a short involvement in politics during World War II, she was persecuted by the communist regime in Albania, and not allowed to write anymore. She died in poverty and complete isolation.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cb/Musine_Kokalari.jpg

Early life

Musine Kokalari was born on February 10, 1917 in Adana in southern Turkey of a patriotic and politically active family of Gjirokastrian origin. She returned to Albania with her family in 1920. Musine was early to acquire a taste for books and learning since her brother Vesim operated a bookstore in Tirana in the mid 1930s. In January 1938, she left for Rome to study literature at the university there and graduated in 1941 with a thesis on Naim Frashëri. Her stay in the eternal city gave her an ephemeral glimpse into a fascinating world of intellectual creativity and her sole aim in life upon her return to Albania was to become a writer.

In 1943, she declared to a friend, "I want to write, to write, only to write literature, and to have nothing to do with politics."

Publications

She had, at the age of twenty-four, indeed already published an initial 80-page collection of ten youthful prose tales in her native Gjirokastrian dialect: As my old mother tells me (Albanian: Siç me thotë nënua plakë), Tirana, 1941. This historic collection, strongly inspired by Tosk folklore and by the day-by-day struggles of women of Gjirokastër, is thought to be the first work of literature ever written and published by a woman in Albania. Their value consists of the very lively dialect of Gjirokastër and the prevailing mores of the region.[2] Kokalari called the book, "the mirror of a world gone by, the path of transition from girlhood with its melodies and the first years of marriage to the world of the grown woman, once again bound by the heavy chains of slavery to patriarchal fanaticism."

Three years later, despite the vicissitudes of World War II, Kokalari now twenty-seven, was able to publish a longer collection of short stories and sketches entitled How life swayed (Albanian: Sa u-tunt jeta), Tirana, 1944, a total of 348-pages which established her—ever so briefly—as a writer of substance. A third volume of her folksy tales was entitled Around the Hearth (Albanian: Rreth vatrës), Tirana, 1944.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d8/Musine_Kokalari_during_the_process.jpg

After World War II

As World War II came to an end, Kokalari herself opened a bookstore and was invited to become a member of the Albanian League of Writers and Artists, created on October 7, 1945 under the chairmanship of Sejfulla Malëshova. All the time she was haunted by the execution without trial of her two brothers, Mumtaz and Vejsim, on November 12, 1944 by the communists and candidly demanded justice and retribution. Having herself been closely associated in 1944 with the fledgling Albanian Social-Democratic party and its press organ Zëri i lirisë ("The voice of freedom"), she was arrested on January 17, 1946 in an age of terror concomitant with the arrest of Malëshova, and on July 2, 1946 was sentenced to twenty years in prison by the military court of Tirana as a saboteur and enemy of the people.[3]

Right before her arrest Kokalari had sent a letter to the Allied Forces, which were still based in the Albanian capital, Tirana. In her letter she called for free elections and freedom of expression. At the trial, Kokalari stated the following:[3]

I don't need to be a communist to love my country. I love my country even though I am not a communist. I love its progress. You boast that you have won the war, and now you are the winner you want to extinguish those who you call political opponents. I think differently from you but I love my country. You are punishing me for my ideals!

In 1964, after 18 years in the Prison of Burrel in the District of Mat region, isolated and under constant surveillance, she spent the following next 19 years of her life in internment in the town of Rrëshen, Northern Albania, where she had to work as a streetsweeper.[4] She was never allowed to resume her writing.[3]

Recognition

Kokalari was one of the first 30 imprisoned writers to be listed in 1960 by the Committee of the Three (precursor of International PEN).[3] In 1993 Kokalari was posthumously declared a Martyr of Democracy by the President of Albania and a school in Tirana now bears her name.[3]

[Poise n Pen]

She fucked her way up the social ladder, like a modern day feminist type. "Strong free woman". Plus I doubt that statement as it goes against what is said in the text. So she met her lover in 1880, at the age of 19, but wouldn't have sex until 36? Stop it, the thotness has spoken for itself.

No one wants to fuck 99% of feminists.

[Jehan]

Marion Maréchal-Le Pen


Marion Jeanne Caroline Maréchal-Le Pen (born 10 December 1989) is a French politician, granddaughter of Front national (FN) founder Jean-Marie Le Pen, and niece of current FN president Marine Le Pen.

Maréchal-Le Pen is, like her aunt, also a member of the Front national and has been the MP for Vaucluse's 3rd constituency since 2012. Twenty-two years old at the time of her election, she became France's youngest MP in modern political history.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion_Mar%C3%A9chal-Le_Pen

http://marionlepen.fr/wp-content/gallery/marion/475.jpg

[StonyArabia]

Queen Mavia for kicking the Romans asses a true Arabian Queen and she was pagan.

[Oneeye]

It's not a he for sure ;)


True, it crashed. :p

[Sui Generis]

Nene Hatun

http://image.yenisafak.com/resim/site/ex/nenehatun1_byk5022fa0c500bc472.jpg

Nene Hatun (1857 – 22 May 1955) was a Turkish folk heroine, who became known for fighting against Russian forces during the recapture of Fort Aziziye in Erzurum from Russian forces at the start of the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878.

According to Turkish folklore, she had been living in a neighborhood of Erzurum called Aziziye that was close to an important fortification defending the city. On the night of 7 November 1877, Fort Aziziye was captured by the Russian army on the evening of 9 November. Nene Hatun's brother Hasan, who was heavily wounded died that evening. In the morning when, the news of the Russian capture of Fort of Aziziye was heard, she kissed her dead brother's head and took an oath to avenge his death. She left her three-month-old baby girl and an adolescent son at home, joining the counterattack against Aziziye with her dead brother's rifle and her hatchet. The counter-attack was launched by Turkish civilians who were mostly women and elderly men armed with axes and farming equipment. Hundreds of Turkish civilians were killed by Russian gunfire[citation needed] but their numbers were so overwhelming they managed to enter the fortifications breaking down its iron doors. A hand-to-hand fight ended with around 2000 Russian soldiers being killed and rest ran away(see:Battle of Erzurum (1877)). Nene Hatun was found unconscious, wounded and her bloodied hands still firmly grasping her hatchet. She was identified as being the most heroic of them all and became a symbol of bravery.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nene_Hatun


She is really admirable woman for us. Armenian gangs helped to Russian soldiers and they killed Turkish soldiers and captured Aziziye. That day, her brother came her home with so bad wounds and died in her arms. She took an oath and said I will kill people who killed you. Morning, imam of mosque informed folk of town "Russian soldiers captured Aziziye bastion" And all villagers taked their gun, knife, hatchet.. what they have and walked to Aziziye. Nene Hatun was just 20 years old and had 2 child - one of them is just 3 mounths. But she kissed her children and said "God gave you to me and now I am entrusting you to him." After she went into folk with her hatchet and rifle. Russians surprised quite when they saw folk are coming to them. They shot people in front of them but people of behind countuined to walk toward them. And when they are face to face and hand to hand folk won fight and taked back Aziziye. All of them were brave but Nene Hatun is a symbol.

[Enflamme]

Joan of Arc


https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/39/Joan_of_arc_miniature_graded.jpg


Joan of Arc (1412-1431) is considered a French heroine and Roman Catholic saint. Born in obscurity to a peasant family, she travelled to the uncrowned Dauphin of France, advising him to reclaim his French throne and defeat the English. Joan of Arc was sent alongside French troops at the siege of Orleans and rose to prominence after the siege was lifted after nine days. She was later captured and burned at the stake for heresy. However, as she predicted, seven years after her death, France was reunited with the English defeated and Charles crowned King

Was a catholic, not a feminist woman :p

[Milo]

Neerja Bhanot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neerja_Bhanot
http://cdn.bollywoodbubble.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Neerja-Bhanot1.jpg

[Colonel Frank Grimes]

Ronda Rousey

http://imgc.allpostersimages.com/images/P-473-488-90/76/7697/NWI1300Z/posters/ian-spanier-the-ultimate-fighter-ronda-rousey.jpg

Women's MMA is so poor in talent that you can't give Rousey too much credit. It's like watching children.

I think Holm is more admirable in that she is the most accomplished female boxer in the world against real competition.

http://img.bleacherreport.net/img/images/photos/003/547/395/hi-res-f4b7828a4693a3075666099b80e6e214_crop_north.jpg?w= 630&h=420&q=75

That being said, Rousey gave away a victory to Holm. If she had stuck to what she was a master instead of trying to prove she was just as good a striker as grappler (she hasn't learned how to throw a proper punch; she'd be crushed by Cyborg if they went tit for tat) she would have beaten Holm. Rousey believed her own hype and made a huge mistake with joining up with that camp run by the name i can never spell correctly and has a history of ruining MMA fighters careers by telling them what they want to hear instead of helping them with their weaknesses.

[Enflamme]

Isabella I of Castile (a true woman):

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-yKCOGz-0xNM/UDEph1lDLeI/AAAAAAAAB7U/Bhgu6dIKaCY/s1600/Isabel+the+Catholic.jpg

Isabella I (Spanish: Isabel I, Old Spanish: Ysabel I; 22 April 1451 – 26 November 1504) was Queen of Castille. She was married to Ferdinand II of Aragon. Their marriage became the basis for the political unification of Spain under their grandson, Holy Roman Emperor Charles V. After a struggle to claim her right to the throne, she reorganized the governmental system, brought the crime rate to the lowest it had been in years, and unburdened the kingdom of the enormous debt her brother had left behind. Her reforms and those she made with her husband had an influence that extended well beyond the borders of their united kingdoms. Isabella and Ferdinand are known for completing the Reconquista, ordering conversion or exile of their Muslim and Jewish subjects in the Spanish Inquisition, and for supporting and financing Christopher Columbus' 1492 voyage that led to the opening of the New World and to the establishment of Spain as the first global power which dominated Europe and much of the world for more than a century. Isabella was granted the title Servant of God by the Catholic Church in 1974.

[Jehan]

Was a catholic, not a feminist woman :p

The thread isn't about feminism.

[Enflamme]

Blanche of Castile

http://media.gettyimages.com/photos/blanche-of-castile-wife-of-louis-viii-of-france-queen-blanche-of-of-picture-id463993385
http://history.loftinnc.com/images/Blanche_of_Castile01.jpg

Blanche of Castile (Spanish: Blanca; 4 March 1188 – 27 November 1252) was Queen of France as the wife of Louis VIII. She acted as regent twice during the reign of her son, Louis IX. She was born in Palencia, Spain, 1188, the third daughter of Alfonso VIII, king of Castile, and Eleanor of England. Eleanor was a daughter of Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine.

[Zhǎng gōngshǒu]

Linda Lovelace.


She single throatedly started a new genre of adult entertainment.
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/ba/f0/49/baf049580e7f10066b481a0862034075.jpg

[Sekkmer]

Marie Curie

She was a Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. She died from aplastic anemia believed to have been contracted from her long-term exposure to radiation.

http://s1.thingpic.com/images/3X/HjF79ZXfDRbPihnoDnWG8Xfu.jpeg

[MellowD]

Elisa Leonida Zamfirescu (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisa_Leonida_Zamfirescu)
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_e-e5V512VaE/TAtI1c-icpI/AAAAAAAAELI/Gtznzr09Dl8/s320/Elisa_Leonida_Zamfirescu.jpg

The first female engineer in Europe. Born on 10th of November 1887, she tried to attend Bridges and Roads University in Bucharest but was rejected because she was a female. She went on to study in Germany at the Royal Technical Academy in Germany. She graduated and became the first female engineer in 1912.


Sofia Ionescu (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sofia_Ionescu)
https://s15.postimg.org/6aia1uo6z/sofiaionescu112.jpg

The first female doctor to perform brain surgery. The successful surgery was done in 1944 on a child who was hit by a bomb during the war.


Sarmiza Bilcescu (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarmiza_Bilcescu)
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The first female to receive a PhD in law in the world. Born in 1867 she attended the Paris law school and graduated in 1890 becoming a doctor in law.


Aurora Gruescu (https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora_Gruescu)
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The first female silviculturist engineer in the world.


Ana Aslan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ana_Aslan)
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She was a doctor, inventor and member of the Romanian academy. You might have used her face creams, body lotions or you might have taken her medicine. Her brand called Gerovital still lives on and is used by many people.


Cecilia Cuţescu-Storck (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecilia_Cu%C5%A3escu-Storck)
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The first female university art professor in Europe. Cecilia Cuţescu-Storck was a painter that had a major influence over the arts in the period between the two world wars. She has taught at the Beautiful Arts Academy in Bucharest .


Smaranda Brăescu (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smaranda_Br%C4%83escu)
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The first female aviator to break the World Record in 1931 for female parachute jumping at 6,000 metres altitude. She was also the first European pilot to get a pilot licence in the United States.


Nadia Comăneci (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadia_Com%C4%83neci)
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First gymnast to receive a ten in the history of gymnastics. She achieved this in 1976 at the Montreal Olympic games. Now she is one of the most well known gymnasts women in the world and is still admired for her performance.

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Thatcher

Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, LG, OM, PC, FRS, FRIC (née Roberts; 13 October 1925 – 8 April 2013) was a British stateswoman who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and the Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990. She was the longest-serving British prime minister of the 20th century and the first woman to have held the office. A Soviet journalist dubbed her the "Iron Lady", a nickname that became associated with her uncompromising politics and leadership style. As Prime Minister, she implemented policies that have come to be known as Thatcherism.

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Traditional housewives, married, raising their children, the bedrock of all societies:

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